Sentence examples for their gauntlet to from inspiring English sources

As generations of angry young men have done before them, the New Puritans (who are, indeed, mostly men) are throwing down their gauntlet to the British literary establishment.

The whole Commons rises in a tumult over the king's demands for tax, the king sulkily stalks out, the nobles shout their defiance (as shocking as throwing their gauntlets to the floor), and it is all much as Chaucer depicts it in the "Parliament of Fowls" ("Kek kek! kokkow! quek quek"), or in the "House of Fame", when the volume of disputing contenders for honour becomes as deafening as a rookery.

"The album sounds as if Daft Punk are snottily throwing down a gauntlet to their legions of imitators: you've copied everything else we've done, now try to copy this," wrote the Guardian's Alexis Petridis.

WASHINGTON -- Two prominent old-line Senate Republicans threw down the gauntlet to their more conversative colleagues on Tuesday, challenging them to stop obstructing the passage of a budget.

The London-based squad's first collaborative endeavor, titled "Welcome 2 London" and released on Mad Decent, is a big-up to the city that made them and lays down the gauntlet to their stateside peers.

The two were naturally pitted against one another as perceived positional equivalents, with this series structured as a gauntlet to test their individual scoring and playmaking might with a comparable standard.

China has thrown down a gauntlet to the U.S. with their declaration of an air defense zone in the East China Sea (Financial Times, Nov. 25, 2013, p. A11).

NEW YORK -- In the weeks since moderate Iranians threw down the gauntlet to the conservative clerics who run their lives, Israel has watched the unfolding drama with trepidation.

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

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

Here was Obama throwing down the gauntlet to his foes.