A gauntlet thrown in the face of immovable incuriosity, it aims to get people less scared about what they don't know — to actively get interested in what they don't know — and to kill the idea that knowledge is any way the enemy of wonder or delight or even a sense of the divine.
This is a gauntlet thrown directly in the face of the major banks.
Each of Left 4 Dead's chapters or "campaigns" concludes with an all-or-nothing gauntlet run or final stand in the face of overwhelming odds.
Staged this past Monday, on 9/11 — Russians put the day before the month when writing out dates — the act of highly targeted public arson was accompanied by the following video explication from the artist: "The Lubyanka's door on fire is the gauntlet that society is throwing down in the face of a terrorist threat.
In his article "North Korea throws down the gauntlet" (Views, June 4), Henry Kissinger writes, "Acceptance of the North Korean nuclear program would fly in the face of American foreign policy since we shepherded the Nuclear Non-Proliferation throughtheough the international community in 1967, as well as of the policy put forward by President Obama only two months ago in a seminal speech in Prague".
Do they go to the easier platforms and run the gauntlet, or do they attempt to go mainstream and play the long odds of scoring success there in the face of Clash of Clans?
This time, in the face of economic crisis and budget cuts, it will be even more exciting to run the gauntlet of parliaments, constitutional courts and angry voters and all in the name of imposing still greater fiscal rigour in future.The idea of reopening the treaties had seemed merely to be a preposterous German obsession.
We've decided to throw the pen-shaped gauntlet in the direction of the talented Nicki Greenberg.
LAST Saturday, at exactly 9 12 a.m., SeaWorld San Diego threw down the gauntlet in the amusement park wars of Summer 2004.
President Barack Obama smacked the GOP in the face with a gauntlet during his press conference, saying in essence "put up, or shut up" on the budget.
