Sentence examples for gauntlet it from inspiring English sources

So it might be more a matter of identifying the particular kinds of unfavourable adjective that are most prone to subsequent reconsideration – "unlistenable" certainly springs to mind, perhaps because the gauntlet it throws down is so easy to pick up – and learning to keep an eye out for them.

Mr. Cohen's album, "The Trumpet Player," on the Spanish label Fresh Sound (www.freshsoundrecords.com), is a thrown gauntlet: it's almost all just a trio of trumpet, bass and drums.

Do all these things, and while estimation will always remain a gauntlet, it will at least cease to be the lethal minefield it still is for so many.

Yet weeks after Google offered Murdoch a hand, it threw down a gauntlet: It casually dropped $1.65 billion on YouTube, the booming video site that grew up in MySpace's back yard and became a competitor in the process.

A gauntlet, it says, is a glove.

Fuckery throws down a gauntlet: It is too big to ignore, yet so absurd that it promises to debase anybody who grapples with it.

Republicans are currently throwing down so many gauntlets, it is hard to even keep up with them.

Toronto is also where a Fox Searchlight can throw down the gauntlet, as it did when it announced on Sept. 9, the festival's opening day, that it had acquired "Tree of Life," the latest from Terrence Malick.

Many gadgets undergo this global gauntlet, but it's interesting to see it tracked like this.

I was invited to Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to the anchorman camp the "Gauntlet," as it's known in news circles.

Plus, if Srinivasan runs the confirmation gauntlet now, it will be difficult for Republicans to argue that he's unconfirmable just months later.