Sentence examples for global gauntlet from inspiring English sources

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

Despite its blind spots, the IPCC throws down the gauntlet to global policymakers, demanding "rapid and far-reaching" transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities to slash carbon emissions and begin drawing down carbon from the atmosphere.

By throwing down the gauntlet to the global rogues' gallery--including Muammar Gaddafi, Hugo Chavez, and Mohammed Ahmadinejad--willwill be in attendance at this year's UN confab in New York, Barack Obama can remind people abroad as well as at home why his election initially electrified their hopes for "change we can believe in".

Latin America, ruled for the most part in the 1950s by oligarchies inherited from the colonial era, of landowners, soldiers and Catholic priests, was suddenly brought into the global limelight, its governments challenged by the revolutionary gauntlet thrown down by the island republic.

The meeting at University of Nebraska College of Law in Lincoln is taking up the gauntlet laid down by a report last September from the Association of Space Explorers calling for a global response to the threat of Near Earth Objects, also known as NEO's.

As I made my way through the gauntlet of second hand smoke I could not help but think how counter intuitive it was that a global gathering of scientists and government agencies concerned about mitigating oncoming natural disasters would themselves be risking their personal health in such a banal and unnecessary way.

With Gauntlet Hair.

Thus was gauntlet thrown.

The gauntlet is down.

The gauntlet has been thrown.

I throw down a gauntlet.