Sentence examples for gauntlet the from inspiring English sources

"The prime minister has started throwing down the gauntlet," the party member said.

After hobbling that gauntlet, the young people too lost on their phones to give me a seat almost look cute.

Recently, hi-tech entrepreneurs have brought new attention to their plight by branding the financing gauntlet "the valley of death".

Throwing down a gauntlet, the big, Communist CGT union said it was "out of the question to give a blank check to the management of France Télécom".

The severe and unforgiving political gauntlet the Founders were required to run eliminated lukewarm patriots and selected for survival only those leaders with the hard residue of unalloyed resolve.

In contrast to other N.F.L. owners, Marshall "did not pretend there were no blacks good enough to make his team," Andy Piascik wrote in "Gridiron Gauntlet: The Story of the Men Who Integrated Pro Football in Their Own Words".

The smaller providers threw down the gauntlet from the off and have maintained the most competitive deals in the market.

Obama threw down the gauntlet: in the 2012 election he will stand with the 99percentt.

We evacuated the civilians into a nearby school – everyone running the gauntlet of the Israeli fire.

It throws down the gauntlet to the other parties to set out their plans ahead of the general election.

The first prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, essentially threw down the gauntlet to the other churches.