Sentence examples for gauntlet over from inspiring English sources

Barclays appears to be throwing down the gauntlet over banking reform.

Obama earned vociferous applause from 4,500 Kenyans at a sports arena in the capital, Nairobi, by throwing down the gauntlet over the rights of women and girls.

PARIS — The Financial Times on Tuesday introduced a mobile Web application aimed at luring readers away from Apple's iTunes App Store, throwing down the gauntlet over new business conditions that Apple is set to impose on publishers who sell digital subscriptions via iTunes.

France and Italy have thrown down the gauntlet over Europe's system of passport-free travel, saying a crisis of immigration sparked by the Arab spring was calling into question the borderless regime enjoyed by more than 400 million people in 25 countries.

Citing Texas' "vibrant" start-up community, Rupp will help launch a portion of the 45 companies running through the DreamIt gauntlet over the next year.

This year, artists like SPY, Axel Void, Eron, Fintan Magee, and Jaune will be dropping the gauntlet over the course of the next month, and wrapping up on October 16.

I found myself remembering the moment in Avengers: Age of Ultron when Robert Downey Jr lifts his arm, and a robotic gauntlet flies over and assembles itself around his hand.

But the president's decision to throw down the gauntlet in Washington over taxes has almost certainly turned the Republican contest into a long-running, split-screen event in which all of the candidates will renew their attacks on Mr. Obama.

It threw down the gauntlet to Mexico over the trucking industry, inserted self-defeating Buy American provisions in the stimulus package and increased restrictions on foreign-born workers, to cite just a few examples.

Most of the raids were scheduled to only last overnight although some, like Operation Gauntlet, were conducted over a number of days.

After 59.1 overs, 113 runs and 26 wickets in their last three innings, Kyle Hogg and Glen Chapple finally decided to hand over the gauntlet for the home side.