challenge

What allows people to keep working toward a goal when the challenge becomes more demanding?

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

Phil’s optimist these 17 seasons, has long been a Salzburg regular as well, and he arrived last week just in time to take up Kalesnikava’s challenge.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

On the opposite coast, Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington easily put down a progressive challenge.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

His bands suggest both musical challenge and serenity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Given the extreme weather conditions that constantly plague the area around where both the Erebus and the Terror lie, excavating the wrecks present an enormous challenge.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Although the characters were dealing with new challenges in Season 2, all of the actors felt more at ease, both with the unknown and with the structure.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

The closeness of the race only underscores one of El-Sayed’s challenges going ahead: reuniting a fractured party after a bitter primary campaign.

From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2026

The US Department of Justice and international regulators, including the European Union, have already granted approval for the transaction, but domestic legal challenges have effectively frozen progress in the US.

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

Paramount said last month that it wouldn’t move forward with the merger until legal challenges were resolved, or June 1, 2027, whichever comes first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

Having a bigger staff with very talented people made meeting the new challenges created by our much broader docket seem possible.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

His best result came as an independent in Buckingham in the 2010 general election, when he challenged then speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

In a suburban Tucson district, Republican Rep. Juan Ciscomani is seeking reelection, challenged by Democrat JoAnna Mendoza, a former Marine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Last month, Chinese electric vehicle giant BYD challenged Toyota, Nissan and Suzuki in their front yard, launching a pint-sized "kei" car in Japan.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

She said wasps on the marshes would have to deal with roaming cattle and sheep, so she challenged her inner "ungulate" to stroll through the office like a "browsing cow".

From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2026

This helps to explain why up to 90 percent of forfeiture cases in some jurisdictions are not challenged.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

Novo disclosed on Tuesday that it now expects little to no revenue growth this year, and Doustdar was blunt during an investor call, saying that “2026 continues to be a challenging year for Novo.”

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026

The LP served as a runway — or perhaps more accurately, a launching pad — for the more experimental and challenging efforts to follow.

From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2026

Vanessa Ton, senior manager of Market & Customer Research at Cox Automotive, said affordability is challenging many households, adding the strength of SUVs was a surprise at first.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

Wang said that investigating a wider range of organisms may inspire new approaches to some of medicine's most challenging problems.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 5, 2026

“Although it may be challenging for teachers to find adaptive instruments to suit the individual needs of their students,” Sobol says, “the music market catalog offerings are expanding.”

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin