Sentence examples for gauntlet against from inspiring English sources

When someone throws down the gauntlet against something as seemingly benign, necessary, or positively good as interpretation, happiness, exercise, or young-adult literature, who can resist taking a peek?

"The appointment of Gale Norton is a throwing down of the gauntlet against the constituency who believes that the federal government needs to lock up more land or wall off existing land from further economic exploitation," Mr. Taylor said.

The main "gauntlet" against the representative model is thrown by the "model of participatory democracy" (Held 2006).

But it was McNamee who specifically threw down this gauntlet against the iPhone.

So was the case 1999, at the Microprocessor Forum in San Jose, Calif., one of the semiconductor industry's most important agenda-setting events, where Weber threw down the gauntlet against Intel in the race to build 64-bit microprocessors.

On February 12 , 2003he made his TNA debut in a Gauntlet match against Jerry Lynn, which he lost.

On the June 12 episode of Raw, McMahon booked Triple H in a Handicap Gauntlet match against the Spirit Squad.

On June 29 , 2009 Swagger was traded to the Raw brand, making his debut as part of a three-on-one gauntlet match against WWE Champion Randy Orton, in which he got himself purposely counted out in order to make an impression on Orton.

On June 29, Henry was traded to the Raw brand and redebuted for the brand that night as the third opponent in a three-on-one gauntlet match against WWE Champion Randy Orton, which he won, turning Henry into a face in the process.

A self-described geek from Mount Clemens, Michigan, whose childhood was a gauntlet of bullying, he is, against some odds, funny, and, against all odds, stylish.

"I always secretly want it to rhyme," Chowder declares — less a confession than a throwing down of the gauntlet: are you with me, or against?