But we are also masochists, which is why we might yet rise to the challenge.
People in these workplaces rise to the challenge, but as individuals, not as groups.
"Politicians and business leaders have an urgent requirement to rise to the challenge of leadership, " Brown said.
Terry remains confident that they can avenge those two defeats and insists England will rise to the challenge.
"During 2009 we will see whether parliament can rise to the challenge and build on this proposal", he added.
Teams rise to the challenge by decorating their commodes to look like everything from a jail to a toxic waste dumping facility.
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If the country does not to rise to the challenge, it would create supply disruptions and price volatility would increase.
Let's hope Blair -- and his colleagues in the EU, U.S. and across the developing world -- rise to the challenge.
For their sake and ours, let's hope they rise to the challenge.
Jonathan Laurence, an Islam-watcher and professor at Boston College, thinks Europe could rise to the challenge, but failure is also easy to imagine.
The young horse has won two three-star events, and Funnell says she is happy that he will rise to the challenge at the weekend.
But the Manchester United manager is confident the authorities will rise to the challenge and put on a show for the global football community.
But it seems everyone who has come into contact with him in the past few years is certain he will rise to the challenge.
If there is a risk with setting up a national network of drug courts, it is that judges may not rise to the challenge.
"I still think Kevin Pietersen's their class player and he seems to rise to the challenge of playing against better teams and better oppositions, " stated Ponting.
But I believe strongly that America's young people will rise to the challenge if given the opportunity -- and given a little bit of a push.
But to put pensions on a more solid footing, the report will require politicians who rise to the challenge that it sets for the 21st century.
These days chances are good that my client will rise to the challenge and hand me a lavishly designed printed piece that fully explains their branding efforts.
One thing is for sure, the Francis inquiry has ensured there will be no hiding place for the NHS as it battles to rise to the challenge.
Chase hopes to sell some of its other products to Hambrecht's clients and to offer Hambrecht's expertise to its own, as they rise to the challenge of the Internet.
And given the failure of the politicians - city, state and federal - to rise to the challenge of Katrina, next time there may be no coming back.
As leader of the opposition in Norfolk, a lot of people will be watching Mr Coke to see if he can make his new councillors rise to the challenge.
Now America must rise to the challenge of ratifying the Chemical Weapons Convention and doing it before it takes effect on April the 29th, less than three weeks from today.
Proud parents Victoria and David, along with their boys, have created a series of one-off designs with the hope of inspiring the nation to rise to the challenge for Sport Relief 2010.
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In America and Britain the switch from DB to DC schemes in the private sector has left the responsibility with the individual worker, but employees have yet to rise to the challenge.
The hearings will gather public opinion on how the designs rise to the challenge of constructing a building which serves both as vibrant thriving centre of the financial district and as a monument.
The work of these legislators gives me great hope that G8 leaders will rise to the challenge in Italy next year and help prepare the ground for an ambitious and effective post-2012 agreement to tackle climate change.
Rather, with so many variables involved in qualifying for some forms of aid, and not knowing if that aid will come in the form of a student loan or a scholarship at most universities, perhaps more families will rise up to the challenge and create cool strategies to pay for college, with or without financial aid.
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Martin Bean, the Open University's vice-chancellor, said that the arrival of online courses meant that UK universities could either "stick their heads in the sand" or rise to the international challenge.
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