serious challenge
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandchallenge
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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challenge
noun
uk/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofseriousandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofserious challenge
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This cycle hypothesis of an alternating unity and plurality in the history of economics or any field, however, faces aseriouschallenge.
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These individual differences present aseriouschallengefor the community grammar that was developed earlier.
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The formulation of a response to our arguments about relative motion is aseriouschallengefor scientists who argue that specification exists in single-energy arrays.
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Or, to state this important point yet another way, infant suffering, especially horrendous infant suffering, is indeed aseriouschallengeto theism.
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There is no doubt that the findings that had been reviewed provided aseriouschallenge.
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However, full sentence processing, even in monologue, remains aseriouschallenge.
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Change that is both phonetically and lexically gradual presents aseriouschallengeto theories with phonemic underlying forms.
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In the presence of natural visual stimulation, however, a scheme of neuronal encoding based on correlated activity faces aseriouschallenge.
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It is aseriouschallengeto the literacy-based master+apprentice relationship assumed in formal and semi-formal approaches to teaching.
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Unlike the other points, this one raises aseriouschallengefor advocates of the design argument.
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If accurate, mechanized agriculture will face aseriouschallengein this century.
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However, the provision of benchmark examples has aseriouschallenge.
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There is no evidence of aseriouschallengeto their leadership before the late 1930s.
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Does this third doubt pose aseriouschallengeto the parity view?
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In addition, effecting this operation from a remote location, based only on the view of video images, provides aseriouschallengeto the operator.
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That it does not and instead results in the exact opposite pattern is aseriouschallengefor the pragmatic account.
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A moreseriouschallengeto the behavioral momentum model comes from studies that have used single, rather than more complex, schedules of reinforcement.
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In either case, it can hardly pose aseriouschallengeto the present theory.
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The rigid fixity of the written form is facing its mostseriouschallengeever.
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The present results show this task to remain aseriouschallengefor children even at the end of the first grade.
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