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Example sentences for: gauntlet

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It urged the department to become a lead agency in driving a national counterterrorism strategy forward, to "champion a national effort to take up the gauntlet that international terrorists have thrown at our feet."
Anyway, as soon as a generation of artists or connoisseurs declares for one, the gauntlet is dropped, and the next will plumb for the other.
Its very first sentence throws down the moral gauntlet: "Six months after leading NATO into a 78-day air war campaign to stop 'ethnic cleansing' in Kosovo and serving notice that it would not let such human-rights atrocities go unchallenged again, the Clinton administration has decided to limit its military role."
Ingolia throws down the gauntlet with a simple hypothesis about why the von Dassow network is so robust.
Should you manage to lay hands on a ticket, you have to run a gauntlet of burly security guards and pass through an airport metal detector to get to your seat.