6 sentences with 'challenged'
Example sentences and phrases with the word challenged and other words derived from it.
• « Socrates challenged the Sophists and insisted that there are essential truths about morality and ethical conduct, but that to arrive at these truths one must be willing to question relentlessly. »
• « And, above all, the emperor's decrees were the fundamental basis of the law itself; they could not be appealed or challenged in the name of some kind of imagined higher authority or written constitution. The emperor was not just the law, he was the law. »
• « Martin Luther's position became radicalised rather quickly, however, and he openly challenged both the Pope and the Church hierarchy within a few years of the publication of the Protestant 95 Theses. »
• « There were powerful kingdoms and empires in Africa, the Middle East and Asia that challenged European attempts at hegemony, but much of the world was controlled by smaller states. »
• « Ultimately, artistic modernism in the arts, music and literature challenged the (post) Victorian obsession with traditional morality, hierarchy and control. »