Challenges In The News 04/20/08

THE NEW Patriotic Party Member of Parliament for Weija Constituency in the Greater Accra Region and Deputy Minister of Trade, Industry and Private Sector Development, Ms. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey, has thrown a challenge to party members to pick up nomination forms to contest her in the upcoming primaries.

Jordanians believe steadily rising prices represent the biggest domestic challenge facing the cash-strapped desert kingdom, a poll showed on Monday.

BMW Oracle have taken on several crew members from rival America's Cup teams, including Luna Rossa's widely-acclaimed helmsman James Spithill, for their head-to-head challenge against Swiss defenders Alinghi.

BEIJING (AP) -- China called the Dalai Lama a "wolf in monk's robes" Wednesday and said it was locked in a "life-and-death battle" with his supporters after protests marking the biggest challenge to Chinese rule in Tibet in almost two decades.

Since Jeremy went blind, he has continued to go horseback riding, skiing and rock climbing. "I didn't think my whole life was over," Jeremy said. "Not by far. It just meant it was going to be one heck of a challenge."

The miracle of childbirth and the great trepidation that accompanies parenthood will not be diminished by this program. However, in a world in which we license practitioners of law, medicine, and education, and require dozens of hours of training for young people to drive automobiles, it seems proper to expect that parenting, one of the most mysterious and challenging endeavors in life, requires training of its own. In this way, the State can fulfill the noble mission of its Parens Patriae power without fear that in so acting, it will be enforcing the orthodoxy of the majority in a task that is central to the individual fulfillment of citizens.

When I attended a rally in San Francisco recently, one of those people, a reporter for a local news-radio station, stuck a microphone into my face and challenged me to defend my choice.

BEIJING — Keeping unemployment low continues to be a challenge for China as the number of laborers it produces is far larger than that of jobs it creates, Labor and Social Security Minister Tian Chengping said Sunday.

Meridian Construction and Development is a company that likes a challenge.

Milly Rash added a personal challenge to Miranda Chapin's defensive assignment Saturday afternoon.

Chennai: The inaugural Rotary Club of Madras-Alchemy corporate golf challenge will take place on March 15, at the Gymkhana Club Golf Course, Guindy.