The phrase "a gauntlet that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a challenge or series of challenges that someone must face or overcome.
Example: "He threw down a gauntlet that would test the skills of even the most experienced competitors."
Alternatives: "a challenge that" or "a trial that".
Gaokao, the Chinese-university entrance exam, is a gauntlet that knows almost no equivalent in the West (grades, recommendations, and extracurricular activities have little bearing on the admissions process).
These thinkers are rare among philosophers in their willingness to take up a gauntlet that is usually refused even by those with views in many respects similar to their own.
What would be more unbelievable than that same kid, all grown up, using a gauntlet that's powerful enough to destroy half the universe?
Together, the song and the sermon, heard when no image is seen, are a gauntlet that Lee throws down to himself: What can popular art be in a time of crisis?
It runs candidates through a gauntlet that, if it goes well, will land them in positions that pay less and demand more than their jobs in the private sector.
She says she knew her network had arrived when Jay Leno lampooned it last summer on "The Tonight Show," contending that WE had thrown down a gauntlet, that a ME channel for men was overdue.
Baumbach's recognition of this extraordinary performer's singular gifts comes right at the start of the film, a throwing-down of a directorial gauntlet that's an act of wisdom born of the audacity of excess — a long close-up, a minute or more, I'd guess, of Gerwig driving a car through L.A. traffic.
"Indeed, holding the confirmation process amid the clamor and commotion of the current presidential election campaign would thrust Judge Garland into a punishing political gauntlet that is below the dignity of a Supreme Court nominee," Hatch wrote.
It isn't just a case of seeing if Democrats overturn this action (or if the courts do), but the governor has thrown down a blunt, conservative gauntlet that might make it difficult for him to deal as a supposed-compromiser with a heavily-Democratic legislature for the next four years -- unlike what he promised during his campaign -- now that they've seen the first part of his conservative agenda.
After everything that Jessica went through over the course of 13 episodes, a prolonged, exhausting gauntlet that required her to make imperfect decisions and live with them, it genuinely felt like she'd earned that break.
The film creates its own emotionally stunted interior logic for the relationship between the alien, named Harold, and Ms. Bening's character -- a promiscuous, romantically needy alcoholic -- by first running Harold through a dating gauntlet that consists, in its charmless entirety, of a topless cocktail waitress, a sexually frigid stewardess and a nymphomaniacal adulteress.
