Dealing with the federal government s longer-term fiscal challenges will require sustained attention and difficult decisions.

The much harder and longer-term challenge will be building our intelligence capabilities.

The longer-term challenge, they say, is whether America Online can maintain its momentum and rapid growth in the face of increasing competition.

The third-quarter slowdown brought into sharper relief the longer-term economic challenges that face Singapore.

Apple seems to be moving to take on these longer-term challenges.

He deliberately designed the plot not to be fully revealed to the player unless they completed the game, seeing it as a way to provide "a longer-term challenge".

Through this reform we have to respond to the short-term challenges of the slowdown in our economies, and face up to the longer-term challenges of reform.

A more stable set of guidelines covering the period up to 2010, with a mid-term review in 2006, should help us to respond to both short- and longer-term challenges.

It is time to broaden the focus and look at one of the fundamental, longer-term challenges facing society: the ageing of the population.

A longer-term challenge, though no less pressing, is to find ways to ride out economic storms like the current recession and to expand and diversify its audience.