face a challenge , also: face the challenge
take up a challenge , also: take up the challenge

But he said few women have taken up the challenge.

Now 117 of the city's 984 schools are ready to take up the challenge.

People like you are needed to take up the challenge.

He had not expected any of them to take up his challenge.

The top Chinese women's team was happy to take up the challenge.

We very much hope that it takes up the challenge.

If someone got hold of you to force me into the open I might take up the challenge and land in their net.

We'd like to hear from pairs of people who think they can take up the challenge.

Artists of a later generation would take up the challenge, and they did.

The couple who took up the challenge have no grandchildren of their own.