Sentence examples similar to public gauntlet from inspiring English sources

Why run the gauntlet of public, political and media opprobrium?

China needs someone to represent us -- someone who is the absolute best in the world". Liu's coaches and race organizers handed out special privileges as they tried to help him avoid the gauntlet of public attention in Ji'nan, site of the National Games.

Republicans threw down the gauntlet on the public option a government-funded, Medicare-style insurance plan that will compete with private insurance in a June letter to Obama.

After remaining silent for two weeks about a raid by lawmakers on annual contributions to the state's pension fund for current and future retired public workers, Mr. Hogan threw down the gauntlet.

"This is the Democrats throwing down the gauntlet and saying, 'The American public lost confidence.

Where local regulations have curtailed the influx of the general public, the state has picked up the gauntlet.

Currently there is no statutory public interest defence, so scientists risk running the gauntlet of London's High Court if they publish material they believe to be in the public interest, but that a major corporation or litigious charlatan believes to be libellous.

The Salvadoran military has laid down the gauntlet to the United States Congress and U.S. public opinion in the case of the murder of six Jesuits and two women co-workers last Nov. 16.

He and his councillors run the gauntlet of custard pies, verbal abuse and hostile public meetings.

This is not to suggest that leaders in Japan or elsewhere should throw down the gauntlet at the first sign of confrontation or public disapproval.

The American policymakers viewed the public moves by the Vietnamese generals as "throwing down the gauntlet" and challenging their counsel.