If the trainer can overcome this gauntlet, he or she must then challenge the Regional Champion, the master Trainer who had previously defeated the Elite Four.
He needs three more to catch Sinisa Mihajlovic, although the Serb has already thrown down the gauntlet – challenging the Italy midfielder to a one-on-one to find out who is really the best.
Mr. Obama had just laid down a stark and powerful gauntlet, challenging the country to live up to the expectations of 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green, whose death on Saturday was an emotional punch to the gut for so many people across the country.
George Osborne, immediately sacked as chancellor when May took office, has already thrown down the gauntlet, challenging her democratic mandate: "Brexit won a majority.
Addressing Syriza's governing parliamentary secretariat late on Monday, the leader threw down the gauntlet challenging dissidents to come up with a better plan than the one he had been forced to accept to keep Greece in the euro.
He's wise to avoid such freelancing, although he skirted dangerously close in the late May speech in which he threw down the gauntlet, challenging Mr. Bush to get more international support for Iraq.
Gov. Jerry Brown has thrown down the gauntlet, challenging other politicians of conscience to follow.
Since he lays down the gauntlet, I challenge Mr. Wilson to prove that the death penalty has a deterrent effect and is morally justified.
So what we all want to know is: did Putin vote for her? Paxman could even throw down the gauntlet and challenge him to a beard-growing competition.
Those issues aside, the most important thing about eBay's Digital Service Efficiency initiative is that it does, as I suggested, throw down the gauntlet and challenge other high tech companies to do what eBay has done: Be transparent about their environmental impact.
