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challenged and Jones
Jones claims that he has no belief in the supernatural, only to have his skepticism challenged when he discovers the Ark.
In the 19th and early 20th centuries, it was assumed that Bernard was the same person as Bernard of Chartres, although this identification has been challenged by more recent scholars such as Julian Ward Jones.
Although the canon continues to be challenged, the texts most frequently taught in schools and universities are lyrics by Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen ; poems by Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Charles Sorley, David Jones and Isaac Rosenberg are also widely anthologised.
Jones had run earlier as a Democrat for the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th congressional district in 1956 against Representative William F. Norrell, in 1961 against Norrell's widow, Representative Catherine Dorris Norrell, and in 1966 for the open seat vacated by the resignation of Oren Harris, when he challenged fellow Democrat David Hampton Pryor of Camden and Republican A. Lynn Lowe of Texarkana.
Jones evicted Collinsworth and challenged him to a duel ( though the duel never occurred ).
Wynne Jones was challenged by the Marines and called out that he was 45 Commando's padre and had forgotten the password.
Because the Olympic Charter states that no decision taken at the Olympic Games can be challenged after a period of 3 years after the closing ceremony, Jones could not lose these medals involuntarily except for doping violations.
Gandhi challenged Jones and, through Jones ' writing, the thousands of Western missionaries working there during the last decades of the British Raj, to include greater respect for the mindset and strengths of the Indian character in their work.
Jones challenged the validity of the Official Languages Act in court, arguing that the subject matter was outside the jurisdiction of the federal government.
Redding and his teenage daughter Tory rent the O ' Grady farmhouse for the summer when they meet Nathan Murphy, his little brother Alex, and their mentally challenged friend Ozzie " the Bozz " Jones, who are re-painting the farmhouse.
During his first game for South Australia, he was challenged to a naked wrestle by the fast bowler and ex-miner Ernie Jones, an informal initiation into the team.
Radio is a 2003 film directed by Mike Tollin that is based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones ( Ed Harris ) and a mentally challenged young man James Robert " Radio " Kennedy ( Cuba Gooding, Jr .).

challenged and campaigning
At the same time, his new education law enhancing university autonomy, for which Iorga had been campaigning since the 1920s, was openly challenged as unrealistic by fellow scholar Florian Ştefănescu-Goangă, who noted that it only encouraged political agitators to place themselves outside the state.
Again campaigning as a pro-government independent candidate, Boivin challenged Lamont in the 1941 provincial election and won without difficulty.

challenged and across
* Hildebrand " Tuppy " Glossop, who once challenged Bertie to swing across the pool in the Drones club and " looped back the last ring, thus rendering it necessary for me to drop into the deep end in formal evening costume ".
Researchers challenged Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory, the higher-order ( self-esteem and self-actualization ) and lower-order ( physiological, safety, and love ) classification of the needs, in particular and explored the levels of needs for importance and satisfaction during peacetime and wartime across cultures during and after the first Persian Gulf War.
He also wrestled in several independent promotions across America, and in All Japan Pro Wrestling, where he challenged for the AJPW World Junior Heavyweight Championship on several occasions.
He challenged both Democrats and Republicans to assist people around the world struggling for freedom and human rights ; to continue programs for world economic recovery ; to strengthen international organizations ; and to draw on the expertise of the United States to help people across the world help themselves in the struggle against ignorance, illness and despair.
During the campaign, he attacked the provincial CCF government's record on crown corporations, describing them as a dismal failure, upsetting Premier Tommy Douglas who challenged Thatcher to a radio debate which was held in the town of Mossbank and was broadcast across the province.
The stand taken by the " rebels " not only challenged the school's unchecked authority over student and faculty activities, but also marked a shift in American antislavery efforts from colonization to abolition, and many of them became ministers, abolitionists and social reformers across the country.
The domination of medieval religious interpretations of reality, morality and society were challenged by a rise of new urban culture across Europe that gradually supplanted rural, local, ecclesiastical and feudal ways of thinking.
Brook trout populations across large parts of eastern Canada have been similarly challenged ; a subspecies known as the aurora trout was extirpated from the wild by the effects of acid rain.
Another Register tradition – the sponsorship of RAGBRAI – began in 1973 when writer John Karras challenged columnist Donald Kaul to do a border-to-border bicycle ride across Iowa.
The movement stirred up controversy in legal schools across America as it challenged standard legal scholarship and made radical proposals for legal education.
In Europe the influence of Le Corbusier and the CIAM resulted in an architectural orthodoxy manifest across most parts of Post War Europe that was ultimately challenged by the radical agendas of the architectural wings of the avant-garde Situationist International, COBRA, as well as Archigram in London.
Piccolo later challenged Sayers to a running race across the park, where Sayers later stumbled.
Based largely on first hand accounts and rare archival footage, the documentary film February One documents one volatile winter in Greensboro that not only challenged public accommodation customs and laws in North Carolina, but served as a blueprint for the wave of non-violent civil rights protests that swept across the South and the nation throughout the 1960's.
Dollar Academy has produced international competitors across many disciplines, most notably in rugby and shooting, but the emphasis is on taking part, with students continually challenged to try new and unusual activities.

challenged and state
At least two private colleges in the Atlanta area now or in the past have had integrated student bodies, but their tax-exempt status never has been challenged by the state.
In these sources, Benjamin swore an oath, on the memory of Joseph, that he was innocent of theft, and, when challenged about how believable the oath would be, explained that remembering Joseph was so important to him that he had named his sons in Joseph's honour ; these sources go on to state that Benjamin's oath touched Joseph so deeply that Joseph was no longer able to pretend to be a stranger.
A program launched in the city of Cleveland in 1995 and authorized by the state of Ohio was challenged in court on the grounds that it violated both the federal constitutional principle of separation of church and state and the guarantee of religious liberty in the Ohio Constitution.
Critics of the East German state have claimed that the state's commitment to communism was a hollow and cynical tool Machiavellian in nature, but this assertion has been challenged by studies that have found that the East German leadership was genuinely committed to the advance of scientific knowledge, economic development, and social progress.
He saw Zionism as an exclusive and separatist movement which challenged the collective solidarity he advocated in his vision of a world state.
Looking for middle-class employment and social privileges, they challenged existing relationships within the colonial state.
However, this implication was challenged by the Ulster Unionists and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which was the state internationally acknowledged as having jurisdiction over Northern Ireland.
The Arizona program was challenged in court by a group of state taxpayers on the grounds that the tax credit violated the First Amendment because the tuition grants could go to students who attend private schools including schools with religious affiliations.
In 1983 the Sri Lankan Civil War began with Sinhalese political dominance being challenged by the militant Tamil Tigers, who sought a separate Tamil state within Sri Lanka.
Christian theology and political thinking until after the Enlightenment considered treason and blasphemy as synonymous, as it challenged both the state and the will of God.
The third, which was challenged in the case, obliged states to take title to any waste within their borders that was not disposed of prior to January 1, 1996, and made each state liable for all damages directly related to the waste.
The college challenged the law in state court and further appealed to the U. S. Supreme Court in Berea College v. Kentucky.
* Saudi Arabia: Although the maximum punishment for homosexuality is execution, the government tends to use other punishments ( fines, prison sentence, and whipping ), unless it feels that homosexuals have challenged state authority by engaging in LGBT social movements.
In California Retail Liquor Dealers Association v. Midcal Aluminum, Inc., 445 U. S. 97, 105 ( 1980 ), the Supreme Court established a two-part test for applying the doctrine: " First, the challenged restraint must be one clearly articulated and affirmatively expressed as state policy ; second, the policy must be actively supervised by the State itself.
When challenged by Wyoh, Professor de la Paz replies " In terms of morals there is no such thing as astate .’ Just men.
David Ownby contends that Falun Gong also challenged the Communist Party's hegemony over Chinese nationalist discourse: " Gong's evocation of a different vision of Chinese tradition and its contemporary value is now so threatening to the state and party because it denies them the sole right to define the meaning of Chinese nationalism, and perhaps of Chineseness.
* The term border dispute applies only to the many cases where a limit territory bordering more than one state ( including an enclave in one state such as Nagorno Karabakh ) is claimed by two or more, not the very existence of a whole state challenged ( such as the Republic of China, which the People's Republic of China regards as a defunct and illegitimate entity, with its current jurisdiction of Taiwan claimed by the PRC as its 23rd province ).
There are alternative sources of this story which state that it wasn't actually Marsyas who challenged Apollo but Apollo who challenged Marsyas because of his jealousy of the satyr's ability to play the flute.
In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving challenged miscegenation laws in the state when they married.
* Biddy Mason, ( August 15, 1818-January 16, 1891 ), a former slave, she won her freedom when she challenged the constitutionality of her slave status in California, a free state.

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