Those forces also continue to defy United Nations peace keeping forces. They continue to defy the resolutions of the United Nations.

Frequently, during her extensive travels she's been challenged by various marksmen to shoot in competition with her.

The intricate linkages and networks that unite terror groups can be challenged only through concerted international cooperation and efforts.

What makes the situation worse, is that these blocking decisions are taken behind closed doors and without a due process that gives Egyptians the possibility to challenge them in court.

In our view, the United Nations should not leave unchallenged or unaddressed claims of moral, political or diplomatic support for terrorism.

It is important that the prestige of this Organization in the peaceful settlement of the conflict not be jeopardized or challenged by the irreverence of the leader of a rebel political organization.

Then monarchy had seen off its big challenger, mass democracy, which was seen as a well intentioned but doomed experiment, just as capitalism has seen off socialism.

This is one of the ways that dominant systems maintain and reproduce themselves, which is to say the dominant group is rarely challenged to even think about its dominance, because that's one of the key characteristics of power and privilege, the ability to go unexamined,

Although this view of ethics has often been challenged, many of the objections have come from religious thinkers who appealed to God s commands.

But at the same time, there's some stuff that's just straight up twisted, and we really need to begin to challenge, look at it and really get in the process of deconstructing, redefining, what we come to know as manhood.

Such negotiations might also address themselves to the task of identifying a set of green box renewable energy subsidies that Members agree to refrain from challenging, on account of consensus as to their positive environmental effects.

We are commemorating the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people while as the realities on the ground abundantly suggest Israel continues to defy the will of the international community, particularly numerous United Nations resolutions and decisions.

Iran s growing regional influence does not stem from its military expenditures, which are far lower than those of its enemies, but from its challenge to America and Israel through an astute use of soft power.

For example, China has not only escalated its challenge to Japan s decades old control of the Senkaku (Diaoyu) Islands, but is also facing off against the Philippines since taking effective control of Scarborough Shoal last year.

Condemns Israel's persisting defiance of the international community and the construction of a separation wall in the Palestinian territories, and stresses its dangerous impact on the economic conditions in Palestine, and the adverse effects of the wall on the daily life of the Palestinian people and their consequent suffering.

China will never be interested in Russia s economic and political modernization, for it prefers Russia to remain a source of mineral and energy resources and a vast strategic rear in its looming challenge with the United States.

As an anti status quo power, Iran is not pursuing nuclear capabilities in order to destroy Israel, but to gain prestige and influence in a hostile environment and as a shield for its challenge to the regional order.