Sentence examples for as a gauntlet from inspiring English sources

She seems uncomfortable with money and personal questions, which she regards as a "gauntlet".

An exceptional charge of €33m could be seen as a gauntlet for putative third party interest.

In the meantime, it is no exaggeration to describe girls' daily lives as a gauntlet of sexism and harassment.

The two were naturally pitted against one another as perceived positional equivalents, with this series structured as a gauntlet to test their individual scoring and playmaking might with a comparable standard.

A recent BBC documentary series set on Sauchiehall Street portrayed Glasgow's busiest thoroughfare as a gauntlet of smashed glass and human misery, with scant acknowledgment that it's also one of Britain's most musically vibrant areas, densely packed with small venues of the sort that seem to be closing down everywhere else.

After an accident in 1916, the tracks were relaid as a gauntlet track.

But before he was elected, Schwarzenegger would have actually run, of course, as well as survive a gauntlet of scandal and opposition erected by his home town Los Angeles Times.

Though posed as a question, the title of Gob Squad's latest production might even be perceived as a threat or, for the audience, as something of a gauntlet: this performance lasts four hours without an interval.

He was at the door, looking down at the thing with what might have been wistfulness or satisfaction, I couldn't tell which, then he reached down behind the cage to unfasten something there — a gleam of black leather — and toss it to me: it was a glove, or a gauntlet, actually, as long as my arm.

Mr. Medvedev's speech was widely interpreted as throwing down a gauntlet just hours after Senator Barack Obama was elected president.

Obama did not so much reach out to find hands across the aisle as throw down a gauntlet.