challenge

Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?

a challenge to the king's authority

Argentine midfielder Jonas Gutierrez added a superb second when he surged past four challenges to fire in low.

The somewhat-shattered San Francisco also managed to make it out, although not before she'd come within seconds of being blown out of the water by Helena, as the two had lost contact in the dark and the flagship had loomed back out of the murk with no one and nothing available to answer the light cruiser's challenge - the radio, the whistle, the signal lights, the flags, et cetera, had all been destroyed. Luckily, one of the few surviving signalmen found a small handheld signal light and managed to blink out the ship's hull number.

Consanguinity in direct line is a challenge for a judge when he or she is sitting cases.

We're still waiting to hear how the court rules on our challenge of the arbitrator based on conflict of interest.