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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."
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."
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.
In the event that someone does take up the McHugh gauntlet and seeks your support, I think it is important that you, that mailers not just blindly endorse a bill simply because its title includes the phrase "postal reform."
An e-mail address and a phone number invite viewers to take up the gauntlet and become involved.