" But a presidential swap, says the park's Ms. Gaudio, would be too much of "a political challenge.
In light of his political predisposition, both Lebanese and Palestinian aggression presented Olmert with a difficult political challenge.
In an e-mail Leuco says he received from the Pope following their conversation, Francis turned the journalist's political challenge into a spiritual one.
Not all parties are in their favor and the government could face yet another political challenge to ensure implementation of these proposals.
Having seen off smoking in the city's bars, he ought to be ready for what is perhaps an even greater political challenge.
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So there could be a collateral political challenge here for the Conservatives.
It all added up to the biggest political challenge to the government of President Hugo Banzer since it took office in 1997.
These presidential press secretaries became personages in their own right, conveying institutional credibility without being a political challenge to the leaders they serve.
Obama noted the political challenge as well as the poll numbers.
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The younger Bush faces a more complex political challenge: building a constituency for change at a time when most Americans say they are satisfied with the country's conditions.
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The move also presents a political challenge for Gov. Snyder, a former accountant and technology executive who helped the state dig out of a fiscal mess shortly after taking office in 2011.
Mr. Ryan's achievement has been to confront the greatest domestic political challenge of our time the unaffordability of the entitlement state and move a tangible and pragmatic solution to the center of the national debate.
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Mr. Chen's surprise call seemed to settle any lingering doubts about his current wishes and sharply illustrated how rapidly the case was morphing into a dire political challenge for President Barack Obama and the White House.
The political challenge is, is that I have confidence that I can get the majority of Democrats, both in the House and the Senate, to support a piece of legislation of the sort that I just described.
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They were unnerved by what looked like more than the sporadic riots to which the country is prone: rather, the gathering momentum of student protest began to look like a real, if incoherent, political challenge to the Suharto regime.
However, the movement stopped short of agreeing to participate in peace talks being organised by the government, and thus there was scepticism about the likely impact on the conflict, which arguably poses the biggest political challenge to the federal government, and which has resulted in the loss of about one-fifth of the country's oil output since early 2006.
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Corruption is a political and social challenge for China, but it has also been a drag on the economy.
Latin America is increasingly turning into a geo-political and international challenge.
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PAS's agenda in the Malay heartlands may seem lacking in economic details, but its political and religious challenge seems more significant and is something it has yet to address.
Second, this is the first election that is so close, therefore there is going to be simultaneously an ideological fight and also a political and legal challenge and we don't know if the electoral system is going to sustain the attacks on it.
The rescue of the eurozone is a political and economic challenge of a magnitude that the EU has not faced since its creation in the 1950s and neither Merkel nor Hollande look to be leaders who have the capacity for the bold leadership on European integration that their predecessors demonstrated across successive decades.
That mentality could spell trouble for Nye, who is facing a stiff challenge from political newcomer Rigell.
To be sure, none of the eight questions specifically challenge the political sensibilities of conservatives and libertarians.
More divisive will be the new government's second challenge: political reform.
Or are prominent conservatives going to help our countrymen of all political stripes understand the challenge we face and lead in developing and executing strategies for defeating it?
This is the sort of challenge that the political fixer in Mr Persson clearly relishes.
With no other major political party or political leader in Russia to challenge him, Putin was a shoo-in.
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Changing times do tend to challenge our traditional political assumptions and question our conventional wisdom about left and right.
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