Sentence examples for a gauntlet in from inspiring English sources

Two of the fingers on her left hand were encased in articulated silver sheaths that looked as if they'd been purloined from a gauntlet in the Met's Arms and Armor Court.

By next week, the terms of Mr. Jacobs and six other commissioners will have expired, dropping a gauntlet in front of Governor McGreevey, who -- overwhelmed by concerns over a yawning budget deficit -- is months overdue in making new appointments.

A Western diplomat said Mr. Fayyad had "thrown down a gauntlet in front of the security services," adding that this "puts the authority in a very difficult position because of Fayyad's international credibility".

Glazed hair and a face to match can also be viewed as an aesthetic corrective, a gauntlet in the face of slatternly, overheated starlet glamour trumpeted as chic in the pages of In Style, Us Weekly and other red-carpet magazines.

From supermodel Kate Moss's sun-seared wrinkles "exposed" in Heat magazine, to footballer Cristiano Ronaldo's sculpted abdominals displayed like a gauntlet in the latest Armani underwear campaign, both women and men are informed that, while they may not have time, energy or organisation to change the world, it is beholden upon them to change themselves.

By thrusting her powerful verses into orbit through satellite television, she has thrown dawn a gauntlet in a way that newspapers, bloggers or network media segments cannot begin to compete.

If candidates pass these first phases, Triplebyte will also fly potential hires out to West Coast and set them up with a gauntlet of in-person interviews with YC companies.

A gauntlet thrown in the face of immovable incuriosity, it aims to get people less scared about what they don't know — to actively get interested in what they don't know — and to kill the idea that knowledge is any way the enemy of wonder or delight or even a sense of the divine.

Like other companies in the brutally competitive PC industry, Micron faces a gauntlet of difficulties in its effort to rekindle growth.

Mrs. Clinton added a quick stop at a union hall here to throw down a gauntlet before Mr. Obama in hopes of pressuring him to support a proposed June 3 primary in Michigan, where some lawmakers describe his resistance as a key obstacle to a revote.

This was a gauntlet thrown down, in a spirit of malicious glee, before the Western powers".