(n.) An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
(n.) The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.
(n.) A claim or demand.
(n.) The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.
(n.) An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.
(n.) An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.
(n.) To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.
(n.) To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.
(n.) To claim as due; to demand as a right.
(n.) To censure; to blame.
(n.) To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"
(n.) To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.
(n.) To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.
(n.) To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.
(v. i.) To assert a right; to claim a place.
Example Sentences:
(1) Bronchial challenge caused an immediate asthmatic response.
(2) When chimeric animals were subjected to a lethal challenge of endotoxin, their response was markedly altered by the transferred lymphoid cells.
(3) This frees the student to experience the excitement and challenge of learning and the joy of helping people.
(4) The degree of increase in Meth responsiveness elicited by the initial provocation is a major factor in determining the airway response to a subsequent HS challenge.
(5) Intranasal challenge of allergic subjects with the allergen to which they are sensitive rapidly produces sneezing, rhinorrhea, and airway obstruction.
(6) Matthias Müller, VW’s chief executive, said: “In light of the wide range of challenges we are currently facing, we are satisfied overall with the start we have made to what will undoubtedly be a demanding fiscal year 2016.
(7) In 1935, Einstein challenged the prevailing interpretation of quantum theory.
(8) A shrinking populace is perhaps a greater challenge than any problems with Russia.
(9) Intraperitoneal injection of indomethacin to pretreated animals resulted in increased levels of IL-1 and TNF and decreased levels of PGE2 following challenge with E. coli.
(10) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(11) The children's pulse, pulse rate variability, and blood pressure were then measured at rest and during a challenging situation.
(12) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(13) The results support the notion that mediator lymphocytes circulate in tumor immunized rats in a noncytotoxic state, specifically recognize tumor cells at a challenge site, and mediate induction of effector cells locally.
(14) The role of blood acetylcholinesterase in moderating the effects of organophosphate challenge in rats was tested.
(15) In the first trial to investigate the effect of tick control, significant improvements in liveweight gain (LWG) occurred only in periods of medium to high challenge with adult Amblyomma variegatum.
(16) The SNT and the I-ELISA indicated that the pigs responded to vaccination and challenge.
(17) When caffeine evokes a contraction, and only then, crayfish muscle fibers become refractory to a second challenge with caffeine for up to 20 min in the standard saline (5 mM K(o)).
(18) This observation seriously challenges the hypothesis that SCE cancellation results as a consequence of persistence of the lesions induced by these agents.
(19) Injection of about four ImD 50 of vaccine intracerebrally produced a local immunity, resulting in an immediate kill of challenge organisms given 14 days later.
(20) There was no correlation between anti-TNP-precipitating antibody titer after sensitization and the ability to respond to challenge by hapten-heterologous carrier.
Juror
Definition:
(n.) A member of a jury; a juryman.
(n.) A member of any jury for awarding prizes, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was only up to jurors to decide if the hotel owner, West End Hotel Partners, and former operator, Windsor Capital Group, should share in the blame.
(2) It’s an anti-police area for sure,” Wilson told jurors.
(3) The jurors' handbook for New York's southern district lists critical questions to ask potential jurors, such as whether they "have any personal interest in the case, or know of any reason why they cannot render an impartial verdict?"
(4) Mahmood had a vested interest in the prosecution against Contostavlos not collapsing due to any unfair entrapment by him, jurors were told.
(5) It is a breach of the US constitution to strike off even one potential juror on racial grounds.
(6) O'Mara also asked the jurors about when they thought self-defense could be used.
(7) In the second phase, jurors will consider factors that could mitigate the aggravating factors.
(8) Investigators have frequently noted a leniency bias in mock jury research, in which deliberation appears to induce greater leniency in criminal mock jurors.
(9) I stayed silent at the police station, because I was absolutely terrified.” He went on to tell jurors that the company had decided to hand him and others “to the police” and repeated earlier references to 3m emails being deleted by the company .
(10) Sportscaster and TV host Erin Andrews took the witness stand on Monday, breaking down repeatedly and telling jurors of the devastation she continues to feel after a man secretly shot nude videos of her and posted them on the internet.
(11) My fellow jurors were Geoffrey Gilmore , director of the Tribeca film festival; Daniela Michel, director of the Morelia festival in Mexico ; French actor Élodie Bouchez ; and jury president, the double Palme d'Or-winning Serbian director Emir Kusturica , a man with an intimidating reputation.
(12) He is likely to spend the rest of his life in jail after jurors at Manchester crown court found him guilty by a majority of 11 to one of two counts of murder and two counts of attempted murder.
(13) But while the names of grand jurors are kept secret, Freeman is an elected official, so citizens could hold him accountable at the polls.
(14) In addition to Pantaleo’s testimony, the petitioning parties sought the release of the charges presented against the officer involved, the instructions given to the jurors, and the minutes, with certain information redacted.
(15) Laidlaw set about building the prosecution’s house for them, attempting to persuade the jurors that, when they saw it in its final form, they would see it was full of holes.
(16) The hearing was then adjourned for the judge and jurors to further consider the sentences for the remaining defendants.
(17) Tamir Rice is 'moral conscience' for activists one year after fatal shooting Read more Neither Loehmann nor Garmback appeared before the grand jury, and instead provided unsworn statements that were read to jurors earlier in the month .
(18) There, jurors heard how Hogan, 62, had not been contacted by the website before it posted a nine-second video clip of the wrestler having sex with the wife of his friend, DJ Bubba “The Love Sponge” Clem.
(19) The Apple-Samsung case has so far lasted for four weeks, and the jurors are expected to deliberate for another week as they try to untangle the complex forms – in which they have to decide, among other things, whether any of 21 different Samsung tablets and smartphones infringed any of 10 different patents on functionality – such as the "rubber band" effect when trying to scroll past the top of a list – and whether the "trade dress" of Apple's products is sufficiently "famous" to merit protection.
(20) It was also the first time potential jurors were banned from sitting on the jury because of their religion.