Brands have mere seconds to try to engage their target audience as they try to run the gauntlet between everything from sophisticated ad blocking technology to deep attention deficit.
"That test ran the gauntlet of everything medical we could throw at them," said Hallak of the hands-on practical.
These gauntlets can lead to everything from a student's expulsion to securing a spot on Totsuki's all-powerful student council, The Elite Ten.
Kingston didn't win the gauntlet match, that was Randy Orton, but everything about the WWE veteran and one-third of the New Day's performance was stellar.
To survive that gauntlet, it is critically important that we do everything in our power to absolutely ban the use of weapons of mass destruction -- and to make those who violate that ban into worldwide pariahs.
"The album sounds as if Daft Punk are snottily throwing down a gauntlet to their legions of imitators: you've copied everything else we've done, now try to copy this," wrote the Guardian's Alexis Petridis.
Interestingly, if you go to Google to investigate the pros and cons of "unschooling," you will find some objective analysis, but mostly you'll be bombarded with a gauntlet of opposing opinions, from "unschoolers" who defend the practice with everything in them to those who believe children are getting the short end of the stick on many levels.
As early as 1961, Castro threw down the gauntlet in a famous speech to the island's intellectuals: Within the revolution, everything.
To get there they would run the friendly gauntlet along Peponi Road, where ragged-trousered squatters would surround the shiny 4x4s, selling everything from flowers to wire sculptures and live puppies.
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.
