31.   His victory over Robertson was the first successful challenge to the Democratic political organization founded by Harry F. Byrd.

32.   His first challenge, however, was coming up with a plausible explanation for a post-cold-war nuclear confrontation between Russia and the United States.

33.   If Lott does run, it will represent the first significant challenge Upshaw has faced, because Lott is held in such high esteem by many players.

34.   In his brief opening remarks, Lockyer acknowledged that this is the first challenge to an urban-hospital merger in California.

35.   In Dayton, the first cartographical challenge for American officials was to have all parties agree on the same map for negotiations.

36.   In January Bharti Tele-Ventures offered the first challenge to the long-distance monopoly of the state-owned operator, BSNL.

37.   In the case of suicide, getting adequate data has been the first challenge.

38.   In the Mitchell case, Robert Epstein, a federal public defender in Philadelphia, had mounted the first such legal challenge to fingerprints.

39.   It is the first court challenge of the revised policy.

40.   Its first challenge will come this spring when Datametrics will ship machines to print shops around the country.