Sentence examples for gauntlet to us from inspiring English sources

"I think Andrew Lansley has really thrown down the gauntlet to us.

True words spoken by Costa Rican archeology student Andrea Sales, and a succinct gauntlet to those of us working in the diffusion of knowledge business.

So it was fitting that in his slot Bristol's Mayor George Ferguson, who has long been a strong champion for all things new economy, threw down a gauntlet and invitation to us all to use Bristol as a laboratory for experimentation and innovation on next economy thinking and practice.

This daily paper, which has undergone bankruptcy and misery for the past several years, stepped up and smartly (bravely) threw down a gauntlet to him: Write your heart out and make us all happy... or at least happier.

For most of us, these activities consume 75%to90%0% of a typical work week and constitute a gauntlet to get to the work we must do.

THE Hungarians have thrown down a gauntlet to the European Union.

Here was Obama throwing down the gauntlet to his foes.

Jeff Williamson throws down the gauntlet to the institutionalists and other doubters.

Nixon threw down the gauntlet to the Russians & Chinese by ordering the mining of Haiphong & other N. Vietnamese harbors, he left the rest of us in an intolerable situation.

But the previous day the Senate threw down the gauntlet to China.

The Lords have thrown down the gauntlet to broadcasters to keep older women on screen.