Sentence examples for gauntlet in a from inspiring English sources
As early as 1961, Castro threw down the gauntlet in a famous speech to the island's intellectuals: Within the revolution, everything.
It's the latest throwing down of the gauntlet in a tit-for-tat war with other internet service providers, but also means BT has accelerated its basic connection speeds by nearly 400% in about six months.
A latter-day example is Nigel Farage, head of the anti-EU UKIP party, who today threw down the gauntlet in a daring challenge to Europe's unpopular continent-wide free market in labor.
But the O.J. series -- in a way, like "The Birth of a Nation" on the narrative side -- will throw down the gauntlet in a different way.
By thrusting her powerful verses into orbit through satellite television, she has thrown dawn a gauntlet in a way that newspapers, bloggers or network media segments cannot begin to compete.
He pretty much delivered Hollywood the gauntlet in a cardboard box with Seven, a razor-sharp horror thriller featuring Brad Pitt and a cat-and-mouse detective tale of biblical proportions.
Proclaiming himself a "knight-errant" preparing for a duel, Mr Marcos set out his conditions for picking up Judge Garzon's gauntlet in an open letter this week.
In his first review for The Voice in 1960, of "Psycho," he threw down the gauntlet in service of a commercial director, Alfred Hitchcock.
The Department of Justice last week threw down the gauntlet in North Carolina, filing a lawsuit alleging that the state violated federal anti-discrimination laws by restricting trans individuals' access to bathrooms in state government buildings.
A Western diplomat said Mr. Fayyad had "thrown down a gauntlet in front of the security services," adding that this "puts the authority in a very difficult position because of Fayyad's international credibility".
Glazed hair and a face to match can also be viewed as an aesthetic corrective, a gauntlet in the face of slatternly, overheated starlet glamour trumpeted as chic in the pages of In Style, Us Weekly and other red-carpet magazines.
