MVP would win the number one contendership for Lashley's TNA World Heavyweight Championship on the February 20 broadcast of Impact Wrestling by last eliminating Kurt Angle in an over-the-top rope Gauntlet Match, but would lose to Lashley by pinfall in the ensuing title match the following week.
And, as you can see from this Google chart that tracks the frequency of a phrase over time, "running the gauntlet" (shown in red) has been the dominant usage for a very long time.
Paul Collingwood admitted to a touch of anxiety over when to throw the gauntlet down to Sussex as he pondered over the weather forecast and remembered his error of judgment, in declaring too soon, that handed Yorkshire a win at the Riverside in the spring.
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.
To his shock, I agreed (although not without some stomach-churning over the price of the gauntlet he had laid down).
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.
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.
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.
