After a planned program with Hogan was scrapped due to Hogan's hiatus following the WWF's steroid scandal, Randy Savage challenged Flair for the WWF title as part of the double main event at WrestleMania VIII.

On his last appearance in WWE, on the June 1 episode of Raw, Flair challenged Randy Orton in a parking lot brawl match, after an interference from the rest of The Legacy, the fight ended with Flair was trapped inside a steel cage and was punted by Orton.

Piper challenged Vince McMahon to a street fight later in the evening only to have Randy Orton come out to fight against, then shortly after Kofi Kingston came out to stop Randy's assault on Piper.

In 2004, State House Majority Whip Randy Graf challenged Kolbe for the Republican nomination.

Despite numerous segments being shown on TV every week ( Warrior vomiting, inexplicably bleeding ,...), the angle went nowhere, as Warrior challenged Macho Man Randy Savage for the WWF Championship, apparently forgetting about Shango.

During his feud with Hogan, Bossman also challenged for the WWF Championship, held by Randy " Macho Man " Savage ; and began teaming with Akeem to form the Twin Towers.

Soon after, Yokozuna was challenged by American patriot " Hacksaw " Jim Duggan, who aimed to be the first man who could knock Yokozuna off his feet ( this was taped before Randy Savage knocked down Yokozuna at the Royal Rumble ).

Bishop was challenged by Republican Randy Altschuler, a local businessman.

At Raw's 15th anniversary, an Evolution reunion as faces took place, though then-heel Randy Orton refused to participate and instead challenged the face versions of Flair, Batista, and Triple H to a match in which he partnered with then-heel, Edge and Umaga, and at the same time reforming Rated-RKO for one night.

In November 1986, Roberts challenged Randy " Macho Man " Savage for the Intercontinental Championship in a nationally televised match.

Randy Thomasson ( an opponent of gay rights and head of the Campaign for California Families ) filed a similar lawsuit, which challenged both A. B.

The feud first started on the March 7 edition of Raw when Orton challenged Undertaker to a match at WrestleMania billed as " Legend vs. Legend Killer " match.

In 2007, DX challenged for the World Tag Team Championship against Edge and Orton at New Year's Revolution.

Also in late 1985 and early 1986, Orton challenged Hogan for the WWF Heavyweight Championship ; like his matches four years earlier against Backlund, Orton was not successful.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

The cities of Pompeii, Herculaneum, and Stabiae are buried in volcanic ash ( note: this traditional date has been challenged, and many scholars believe that the event occurred on October 24 ).

In the twenty-first century, the ACLU has fought the teaching of creationism in public schools and challenged some provisions of anti-terrorism legislation as infringing on civil liberties.

The following year, The Guardian challenged the succession law in court, claiming that it violated the European Convention on Human Rights, which provides " The enjoyment of the rights and freedoms set forth in this Convention shall be secured without discrimination on any ground such as sex, race, colour, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, association with a national minority, property, birth or other status.

Someone in Government obviously had a quiet word in Kable's ear, as when the court met and Sinclair challenged the prosecution on the ground that the Kables were felons, the court required him to prove it.

Organized sports competition on Sundays was illegal in Pennsylvania until 1931, when challenged by the Philadelphia A's, the laws were changed permitting only baseball to be played on Sundays.

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.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

This was challenged legally on the basis that no prior team relocations ( in the modern era ) left a city without a team.

" The university was not challenged about the origin of its interracial dating policy, and the District Court accepted " on the basis of a full evidentiary record " BJU's argument that the rule was a sincerely held religious conviction, a finding affirmed by all subsequent courts.

While this rivalry was in many ways a holdover from the days when the Commodore 64 had first challenged the Atari 800 ( among others ) in a series of scathing television commercials, the events leading to the launch of the ST and Amiga only served to further alienate fans of each computer, who fought vitriolic holy wars on the question of which platform was superior.

Moussa Ahmed Idriss and the ODU later challenged the results based on election " irregularities " and the assertion that " foreigners " had voted in various districts of the capital ; however, international and locally based observers considered the election to be generally fair, and cited only minor technical difficulties.

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.

Social Darwinism challenged positivism's claim of deliberate and rational choice as the determining behaviour of humans, with social Darwinism focusing on heredity, race, and environment.

In 268, at some time before or soon after the battle of Naissus, Gallienus ' authority was challenged by Aureolus, commander of the cavalry stationed in Mediolanum ( Milan ), who was supposed to keep an eye on Postumus.

Greenberg was one of the few baseball people to testify on behalf of Curt Flood in 1970 when the outfielder challenged the reserve clause.

He challenged his life ban in September 2001 but on 17 October 2001, his application was dismissed.

Sometimes he was challenged on the grounds that his kingdom was not German, though usually he was recognized, instead of Bavaria which after all was just a younger line of Wittelsbachs.

) These all challenged Westernized ruling elites on behalf of ' authenticity ' and tradition.

In being awarded the 2003 Henry C. Turner Prize by the National Building Museum, then-museum board chair Carolyn Brody praised his impact on construction innovation: " His magnificent designs have challenged engineers to devise innovative structural solutions, and his exacting expectations for construction quality have encouraged contractors to achieve high standards.

In 1980, Julian Simon repeatedly challenged environmental scientists to bet against him on trends in prices of commodities, asserting that humanity would never run out of anything ... Paul and the other scientists knew that the five metals in the proposed wager were not critical indicators and said so at the time ...

For instance, J. Scott Armstrong challenged Al Gore to a climate-related bet in 2007 that focused on year-to-year variation in temperatures but not on betting over longer term changes in global average temperatures.

In July 1971 and again in August 1972, the regime was challenged by two attempted military coups.

Burke challenged William Perry, ' The Tipton Slasher ', to a fight in July 1842.

For his " Proper reply to a late scurrilous libel " ( Craftsman, 1731 ), an answer to " Sedition and defamation displayed ," he was challenged to a duel by Lord Hervey ; for another, " An answer to one part of an infamous libel entitled remarks on the Craftsman's indication of his two honourable patrons ," he was in July 1731 struck off the roll of privy councillors and dismissed from the commission of the peace in several counties.

For example, the classification of dancers as independent contractors has been challenged in court, successfully in Massachusetts in July 2009.

However, he died suddenly of apoplexy after leaving the king's cabinet on 16 July 1691, though this account is challenged by Voltaire, who wrote in " Le Siecle de Louis XIV " that Louvois died while taking waters in Balarue.

Bruno got back into title contention with an impressive one round KO win over former WBA champion Gerrie Coetzee of South Africa, and, in July 1986, he challenged Tim Witherspoon for the WBA heavyweight title.

He challenged in the courts the refusal of the Qarase government to include his party in the Cabinet ; on 18 July 2003, the Supreme Court ruled in his favour, saying that the exclusion of a party with more than 8 seats in the House of Representatives violated the Constitution.

On July 29, 1994 Waters was challenged for remarks made during the House Banking Committee ’ s Whitewater hearings denouncing Rep. Peter King, with whom she had argued the night before.

Rod Liddle challenged Gilligan in July 2009 about working for an " international propaganda channel run by the Iranian government ".

From 1919, during the Irish War of Independence, the Gazette was challenged by the Irish Bulletin, the official newspaper of the rival government of the Irish Republic, produced by its Department of Propaganda and appearing weekly from 11 November 1919 to 11 July 1921.

In July 2007, The ABC Television Network announced a special program called Six Degrees of Martina McBride where individuals from around the country were challenged to find their way to Martina McBride on their own connections and research using a maximum of six methods.

He has challenged the findings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia ( ICTY ) and most notably contested the conclusions and reasoning of the Appeal Chamber's 2004 judgment in the Krstić case that the crime of genocide was perpetrated at Srebrenica in July 1995:

Another, which was argued before U. S. District Court Judge Ann Aiken on July 15, 2005, challenged the law which was used against him as unconstitutional.

Malam Bacai Sanhá, the party's presidential candidate in 2000 and 2005, challenged Gomes for the party leadership, but Gomes was re-elected at the end of the congress on 1 – 2 July, receiving 578 votes against 355 for Sanhá.

On July 12, 1934, Andorra's monarchial system was challenged by an adventurer named Boris Skossyreff, who issued a proclamation in Urgel declaring himself " Boris I, King of Andorra ".

Malam Bacai Sanhá, the party's presidential candidate in 2000 and 2005, challenged Gomes for the party leadership, but Gomes was re-elected for a five-year term as President of PAIGC on July 1 – July 2, receiving 578 votes against 355 for Sanhá.

In July 2006 he condemned Prime Minister Stephen Harper's initial failure to address the plight of Canadians in Lebanon trapped by Israeli air strikes and challenged the PM's characterization of the attack as being " a measured response ".

Norris challenged Julian Jackson for the WBA junior middleweight belt in July 1989.

Use of the UTA right of way for the line was challenged in court and was later approved by the Utah Supreme Court on July 12, 2008.

The bid was lodged with the Australian Soccer Association ( now Football Federation Australia ) on 19 July, challenged only by a consortium headed by Nick Politis, known as the " Sydney Blues ", for Sydney's place in the ' one team per city ' competition.

Between July 9 and 11, 1946, twelve civilians ( one of them apparently mentally challenged ) were arrested by MBP officers as perpetrators of the pogrom.

He presented his credentials to the Senate on July 26, but they were challenged ; he was not permitted to take the oath of office until July 28.