How To Use Gauntlet In A Sentence
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His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
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D'ye know, that Irish lunatic absolutely ran the gauntlet of pandy fire to get back into Lucknow, and bring out Outram and Havelock in person (with the poor old Gravedigger hardly able to hobble along) just so that they could greet Sir Colin as he covered the last few furlongs?
Fiancée
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No, Obama has thrown down the gauntlet, and is trying to reify the sloganeering of the 1960s.
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The edge of his gauntlets show beneath the edge of his shirtsleeves, flashing as he walks in time with the bracers that cling to his shins and over his feet.
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The first Humphrey’s latitu-dinous baver with puggaree behind, (calaboose belong bigboss belong Kang the Toll) his fourinhand bow, his elbaroom surtout, the refaced unmansionables of gingerine hue, the state slate umbrella, his gruff woolselywellesly with the finndrinn knopfs and the gauntlet upon the hand which in an hour not for him solely evil had struck down the might he mighthavebeen d’Est-erre of whom his nation seemed almost already to be about to have need.
Finnegans Wake
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Her sister was brooding on the bladed gauntlets and their meaning.
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With a boat, however, electricity is routed through a gauntlet of adapters and shore power connections that depend on friction to maintain contact.
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Fortunately there's a six-game home stand stuck in the middle of the March gauntlet that makes those two weeks tolerable.
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Inmates at Buckley Hall Prison have to run a gauntlet of insults and racism from some members of staff.
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She flexed her wrists, feeling the leather gauntlets stretch and slide along her forearms.
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Concentrating on defending herself, S'aturinni bought the Major enough time to mumble slightly different syllables, his gemmed gauntlets flashing red this time as a volley of prismatic darts materialised.
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This guy had thrown down the gauntlet, and it was a bloody t-shirt with Snark emblazed across it.
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Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch.
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But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
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He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
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The guards in the towers stared in disbelief at the sight of fourscore Gauntlet Knights pounding toward them.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Seven
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He donned the mail breastplate and leggings, and put on a pair of steel gauntlets and boots.
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Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.
Redgauntlet
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Yet it nonetheless felt like a gauntlet was being thrown down to the rest of the world.
Times, Sunday Times
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Henrietta is wearing a matt white helmet, a silk scarf wound tightly round her face and heavy leather gauntlets.
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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror - blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Fiancée
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What was once a very enjoyable walk ‘around the block’ has become a case of running the gauntlet for those who still walk this particular route.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a precaution, I had scented toilet paper stuffed up my nose, but the bouquet still came on like a rotten gauntlet across the snout.
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The gauntlet on the glove was to cover up the aluminum, so it wouldn't heat up in the light.
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Some knights were cited as wearing mail gloves under their plated gauntlets for added strength.
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On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
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Brunt picked up the gauntlet thrown down by his captain.
The Sun
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Of course, she wasn't stupid - the rough engineer had worn protective gauntlets to shield her hands from the impact of the armor.
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The trucks tried to drive to the British base, running the gauntlet of marauding bands of gunmen.
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You can also take off those spats and gauntlets.
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We had lived on the grund, and under the Redgauntlets, since the riding days, and lang before.
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I'll admit that I was more than a little jumpy as I made my way through this gauntlet of jimsonweed and Huggies, but as I grew closer and began to make out the outline of the bunker's entrance, I heard music, faintly at first, but growing louder with each footstep until I finally recognized it as ABBA's Waterloo.
Live blogging for Lieberman or how Bill Kristol saved my life
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Redgauntlet led them through one or two passages (for the house, as we have before said, was very irregular, and built at different times) until they entered an apartment, where a man with shouldered carabine kept watch at the door, but readily turned the key for their reception.
Redgauntlet
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Must the consultant run a long gauntlet of interviews, just to test his or her credibility.
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He grunted, slung his helmet from a strap on the saddle, and began to pull off his gauntlets.
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But once outside its confines, he will be struggling - he will inevitably have to run the gauntlet of an adoring public wanting autographs by the hundred.
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Walking down the corridors of Pittodrie Stadium is like running a gauntlet of mirth and merriment.
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Among the most confrontational figures were ultraconservative scholars, who occasionally threw down the gauntlet in public and denounced colleagues for lax or improper observance of the faith.
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Staggering home under the appalled stares of passers-by, a bloodied Mehmet walks a gauntlet of seething furnaces, grinding pistons and an incessant, infernal hammering.
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It is not for the faint-hearted, for it throws down a gauntlet to walkers seeking an outing that is rather more challenging than a mere walk.
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A long silver metal double-edged sword with an angel on the handle-top and a cross on the handle-bottom of the golden sword handle is fastened onto his belt and he has black gauntlets with a sliver band in the middle on both of his wrist.
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Cyclists feel aggrieved that they run the gauntlet of motorised traffic, which they also regard with haughty contempt.
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The FSA should pick up the gauntlet and come up with a solution.
Times, Sunday Times
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The company's spring meeting was the occasion for the shareholders to pre-empt the governing board by throwing down the gauntlet on finance and management of services.
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Women politicians often run the gauntlet, from contempt to overt harassment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Logan Mader, Adam Duce, Paul Gray, and Robb Flynn talk about learning other people's songs along with footage of Matt Heafy and Tim Williams singing Machine Head's "Davidian" in this Gauntlet exclusive.
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It seemed a gauntlet thrown down to the modern world.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Its large oaken slab was of sufficient dimensions to admit of the royal gift being spread in graceful folds over the dark surface of the wood, which the better displayed the tissue's interchanging tints, and also gave room for the disposal of the cap and gloves which were placed in a kind of armorial crest between its gauntlets, at the head of the scarf, and at its foot was added a beautifully written inscription in old emblazoned characters, historic of the interesting relics above.
The Scottish Chiefs
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Because he squirmed in protest as she tried to remove his gilded, gemmed gauntlets, she had to leave them on.
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took up the gauntlet
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Both men are in complete armor; the duke's helmet and gauntlets lie at his sides, while Saint George, a dragon coiled around his legs, removes his helmet with his right hand.
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She has thrown down the gauntlet to the newspaper by accusing it of libel.
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He wore a skin tight black muscle shirt, thick black jean pants, and gauntlets with open fingers.
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She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.
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The very fact the woman had to run the gauntlet of traffic and pigeons messing on her is proof alone she is not experiencing a level playing field.
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As he went back to where the Percys were, four men wearing rubber gauntlets came carrying large aluminum cans.
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The TV investigation, Running The Gauntlet, is being broadcast in two parts tonight and next week in the West Country.
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He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
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With steroids, testosterone or beta blockers you have to run the gauntlet of the drugs testers at any moment.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pedestrians took their lives in their hands running the tree-lined gauntlet, forced to scramble up steep bankings if two vehicles met on the narrow stretch.
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And then having to run the gauntlet of a vegan protest.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the way down the broken slope to Jugdulluk the little column trudged through the gauntlet of jezail fire which lined the road with dead and wounded.
The Afghan Wars 1839-42 and 1878-80
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Visit any office building over four stories in height and you're likely to run a gauntlet of inquisitors.
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We are throwing down the gauntlet: Who is the next queen of Wife Swap?
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He hastily straightened his gleaming bronze cuirass and cuisse, settled his sword sheath and gauntlets more comfortably upon his belt, and entered the audience hall.
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Luxury car firm Jaguar has thrown down the gauntlet to competitors by giving the best guarantee on the market.
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gestured with his gauntleted hand
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After a day of taking 'psychometric' tests in relation to job applications, I have decided to through down the gauntlet and discover whom here is the ultimate Geek
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Catpewk Diary Entry
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The Imperial insignia was printed on the left shoulder pad and the right gauntlet.
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We ran the gauntlet of samba musicians and sega dancers.
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A calcium ion has to run the gauntlet of many, many molecules before it reaches a binding site.
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The non-skid Thermal Foot Gauntlet is designed to relieve pain associated with diabetes, arthritis, and Raynaud's disease.
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The navy board was the last in a gauntlet of oral exams.
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But to get into a university to pursue this path, she must first run the gauntlet known as "Gaokao," a grueling university entrance examination given every summer across the Asian nation.
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He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
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How lang Steenie lay there, he could not tell; but when he came to himsell, he was lying in the auld kirkyard of Redgauntlet parochine just at the door of the family aisle, and the scutcheon of the auld knight, Sir
Redgauntlet
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Cerda interviewed those named in his testimony, including Wally Fuentes Morrison, and then threw down the gauntlet to Pinochet.
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They ran the gauntlet of the voter as well as the judges and won out and for people to start slagging them off is a bit rich.
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Talk about throwing down the gauntlet.
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We're accustomed to facing a gauntlet of hucksters when we sit in front of a TV set.
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Her leather gauntlets were always a part of her attire, as falcon handling was one of her favorite hobbies.
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
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Her hair was hidden beneath a bandanna and she wore a cloth vest, jean shorts and black, fingerless gauntlets.
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Lilias Redgauntlet withdrew the mask from her crimsoned cheek.
Redgauntlet
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In a sense the gauntlet has been thrown down.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Prime Minister was thus throwing down the gauntlet to his internal critics.
Times, Sunday Times
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On Fifth and Sixth Avenues, cutting the length of Manhattan, are gauntlets of flag-sellers assailing vehicles at every stop light.
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the Gandiva as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from Kamyaka) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3
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Lieutenant "Cush" Jones determined to run the gauntlet for escape, and as he darted away the point of his scabbard struck a stone, and throwing it inverted above his head, lost out his handsome sword.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall Jackson
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Even with the new road layout you are still running the gauntlet of traffic travelling fast up and down that road.
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So it might be more a matter of identifying the particular kinds of unfavourable adjective that are most prone to subsequent reconsideration - "unlistenable" certainly springs to mind, perhaps because the gauntlet it throws down is so easy to pick up - and learning to keep an eye out for them.
The Guardian World News
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They recognized that some of their objectives could be reached by administrative action without running the gauntlet of the legislative process.
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He was garbed in a laced-up green tunic, gauntlets, spats, and khaki pants with large stitches up the front and back seams.
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Using the different shades of the turquoise cabochons as my color guide, the gauntlet was thrown.
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His pelt, when dyed, is made into gauntlets of the cheaper kind.
Janey Canuck in the West
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It must still run a gauntlet of periwinkles, oyster drills, and mud and basket snails, most of which leave egg masses that cover any undeveloped real estate on the shell.
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Aerobraking would both require an out-of-plane orbit to keep from running the gauntlet of the ring particles for millions of km every orbit and, once the apoapsis was lowered to the distance of the rings, leave the craft moving far slower than the orbital speed of the rings.
Huygens landing video - The Panda's Thumb
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Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle.
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Not only did Mann throw down the gauntlet to the fascists, with his sharp insight and his barbed pen, in some of his works he came very close to a socialist perspective.
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In other words, the most successful stabilization force is one that wears both the mailed gauntlet and the velvet glove.
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The foreign secretary ran the gauntlet of demonstrators.
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His design is pretty spiffy, though, even if his powers and fatigues remind me of the ever-gawdawful Gauntlet over in Avengers: Initiative.
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His Republican rival may be expected to take up the gauntlet.
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LVG had to run the gauntlet down the touchline at the final whistle as the atmosphere turned poisonous after a terrible afternoon.
The Sun
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After the consent of the girl and her parents has been obtained, one more ordeal remains; the bridal couple have to run the gauntlet of the mischievous village boys, who stand ready with sooted hands to begrime their faces and bodies; and generally they succeed so well that bride and groom present the appearance of negroes.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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If he does anything tricky just give him a good hard whack with these here gauntlets.
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We see Penelope waking up alone in a bed filled with discarded gauntlets, greaves and breastplates.
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Various other objects from the tomb, including the stole (note the narrowness characteristic for the time) and the cingulum, the cuffs of the gauntlets, crosses from the pallium, and the lappets of the mitre:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum
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Frank was supposed to take you down the Gauntlet, right?
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The word digitalis refers likewise to the digits, or fingers of a gauntlet.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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Today, again, she had to run the gauntlet of camera crews, and the fact that her lawyers have attempted to raise more interest in local media about this case has brought more local cameras here.
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Kenzi is then approached by a muscular, dwarfish, middle aged-looking man calling himself only Gauntlet.
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Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.
Wandering Willie’s Tale
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If the company remains intransigent, you will have reached a deadlock position and the ombudsman will take up the gauntlet on your behalf.
Times, Sunday Times
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Henrietta is wearing a matt white helmet, a silk scarf wound tightly round her face and heavy leather gauntlets.
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When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.
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Many gamely take up the gauntlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Once he was sure that they were on tight and snug, he donned the gloves that were more deserving of the name ‘gauntlets’, and a special headpiece that featured yellow lenses worn over the eyes.
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A price war looks likely now that a leading supermarket has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors.
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Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos has thrown down the gauntlet to Brit entrepreneur Richard Branson by declaring that he is also going into the space tourism business.
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As the current funnels through a gauntlet of rhino-sized rocks, our pair of six-metre rafts plunge and buck like paper cups in a storm drain.
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Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle.
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She wore gauntlets, earrings, and some chokers at her neck.
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But there is a third level of meaning here which, intended or not, lends this show an importance greater than the art itself and throws down the gauntlet to Scotland's cultural apparatchiks.
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He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
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Apart from its balletic set-pieces of gunfights, the film ran a gauntlet of emotions from violent excitement to melodramatics to softhearted sentimentality.
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And even after being reduced to powder, and running the gauntlet of every process in the chemical laboratory, the moment the substance is left to itself under possible conditions it will proceed to recrystallize anew.
Natural Law in the Spiritual World
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She picked up the gauntlet in her incisive Keynote Address to the Conference.
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In fact he wore a complete set of finely made golden samurai armor, and in his gauntleted hands he carried a pair of long wooden swords, each one with ancient runes scrawled up their sides.
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Meanwhile UK truckers continue to run a gauntlet of threats and violence as they attempt to do their jobs.
The Sun
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This, it emerges, is reached by running the gauntlet alongside the entrance for the police vans and what look like the service entries for the dustbins and the meter readers.
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At the airport, Amber emerges from First Class and courageously runs the gauntlet of paparazzi the tears coursing down behind her Versace shades (a present from darling Donatella).
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Nobody takes up the musical/political gauntlet dropped by almost every other hip hop artist whose ego has grown fat on the booty shaking, ghetto style anthems that choke video channels.
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I heard the resounding thunk of a gauntlet thrown down, and next thing I knew, I was trying it at home.
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Was he taking up the gauntlet against the subtle yet inevitable erosion such wealth would bring to the culture of his people?
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The old gauntlet must be run again.
Times, Sunday Times
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His silver armor consisted of sleek silver leggings with a massive silver dragon bracer that he wore on his right arm, while he also wore two silver dragon gauntlets that were spiked and slightly tinged by dried blood.
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The company's spring meeting was the occasion for the shareholders to pre-empt the governing board by throwing down the gauntlet on finance and management of services.
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Lempicka, with helmet and gauntlets, but over-lipsticked, has her eye on the road in slit-eyed girlish triumph.
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Wear thy light armor," said the Prince, "but no helmet, a juppon bearing the arms and colors that the Earl gave thee when thou wert knighted, and carry thy right-hand gauntlet under thy belt for thy challenge.
Men of Iron
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Let's lay down the gauntlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Unofficial paths and access ways are now closed off to walkers, cyclists and horse riders, forcing them to run the gauntlet of the traffic on the roads to reach the dwindling recreation areas.
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He put bracers on his forearms, the right one with a small, round shield attached, and fingerless gauntlets on his hands.
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Instead the global star will be made to run the gauntlet through hundreds of media, protesters and members of the public outside.
The Sun
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Whoever decides to take up the gauntlet and challenge the Prime Minister will have a tough battle.
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Traffic officers believe that while occasional drink-drivers have been deterred from running the gauntlet, hardened offenders are continuing to take chances with other people's lives on the roads.
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He dropped his swords and pummelled the paladin's helm with his armoured gauntlets, knocking him backwards and disorientating him for a second.
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_vin de liqueur_, but which few people wish to drink constantly; and which at its worst, or even in mediocre condition, is very poor tipple -- "shilpit," as Peter Peebles most unjustly characterises sherry in _Redgauntlet_.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
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Ocho Rios, the country's prime cruise ship destination, is a gauntlet of colorful craft shops, food stands, and juke joints.
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This means that in a high-consumption society such as ours, when I buy a flash car or suit, I throw down the gauntlet to others to do likewise.
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A price war looks likely now that a leading supermarket has thrown down the gauntlet to its competitors.
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Now it's time to lay down the gauntlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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Various other objects from the tomb, including the stole (note the narrowness characteristic for the time) and the cingulum, the cuffs of the gauntlets, crosses from the pallium, and the lappets of the mitre:
Catholic Bamberg: The Vestments of Pope Clement II and Other Treasures from the Diocesan Museum
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And at the command of Yudhishthira, the strong-armed Arjuna, taking up the _Gandiva_ as also his inexhaustible quivers, and accoutred in mail and gauntlets and finger-protectors made of the skin of the guana, and having poured oblations into the fire and made the Brahmanas to utter benedictions after gifts, set out (from _Kamyaka_) with the objects of beholding Indra.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 1
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They have thrown down the gauntlet to the PM by demanding a referendum.
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A victory march through the five boroughs would constitute a gauntlet thrown down to her Beijing rivals.
Times, Sunday Times
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He wore great gauntlets on his hands; he was in his habit of green; he had his steel-buckled leather belt upon him beneath his cloak and a pair of daggers in it, with his long-sword looped up; he had his felt hat on his head, buckled again, and decked with half a pheasant's tail; he had his long boots of undressed leather, that rose above his knees; and on his left wrist sat his grim falcon Agnes, hooded and belled, not because he rode after game, but from mere custom, and to give her the air.
Come Rack! Come Rope!
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He was chasing skirt and snorting booze, hoovering up every kind of sin and excess he could lay his gauntlets on.
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Gauntlets were strapped onto his hands and wrists, and sturdy boots were on his feet.
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The bank will make the promise today, throwing down the gauntlet to a sector plagued by incompetence and delays.
Times, Sunday Times
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Jenga hit him squarely on the jaw with his gauntleted fist.
MEDALON
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His fpurs were firft cut off with a hatchet: he was in the next place ungirdled, or divefted of the military belt, to which his fword was fufpended, and with which at his cieation he was girt: he was then ftript of his gauntlets and fhoes, and afterwards hanged, decollated, drawn, and quartered.
A tour through the island of Great Britain : divided into circuits or journies ...
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Every day they had to run the gauntlet of hostile journalists on their way to school.
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Some knights were cited as wearing mail gloves under their plated gauntlets for added strength.
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She said: ‘It is the first time in years we have been able to ride in safety without running the gauntlet of boy racers and we are not going to let that be threatened.’
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Larger objects may run the gauntlet of the atmosphere and reach the surface, but this is rare and only happens a few times a year.
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His charge is at his best when the gauntlet strikes his face.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had goldsmiths make a matching bracelet, which was always worn on her right wrist, over fingerless black gauntlets.
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Glen, nor dargle, nor mountain, nor cave, could hide the puir hill-folk when Redgauntlet was out with bugle and bloodhound after them, as if they had been sae mony deer.
Redgauntlet
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Still, on more serious matters, he was happy to lay down the gauntlet.
Times, Sunday Times
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He raised his gauntlet, signalling to his venerers that they might begin the drive.
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It takes all the curiosity I've got to run the gauntlet of this mob.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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The oriole families then commence the perilous journey to tropical Africa running the gauntlet of the trappers en route.
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Uncover before Narnia, you dog, " thundered the Lord Bern, and dealt him a rap with his gauntleted hand which sent his hat flying from his head.
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So I figged up, and when I regarded myself in Skene's cracked mirror — blue tunic and breeches, gold belt and epaulettes, white gauntlets and helmet, well-bristled whiskers, and Flashy's stalwart fourteen stone inside it all, it wasn't half bad.
Flashman In The Great Game
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The foreign secretary ran the gauntlet of demonstrators.
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Bear Cat and her new mole collar that made a soft, fur wall about her slim throat to her very ears and the tip of her saucy chin, and the perky hat -- also elegantly "sassy" -- turned up in front and down behind, and the new driving gauntlets, and the new coat that had made dad groan until he had seen Mary V inside it and changed the groan to a proud little chuckle of admiration.
The Thunder Bird
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Ornamental gauntlets with swirling embroidery and pinked edges were patented by F. Farrant.
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A tallow candle weighed down one end of it, a steel gauntlet the other.
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Their budgets are closely controlled by Congress and any departmental legislative proposals will have to run the gauntlet of Congressional scrutiny.
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He wore a skin tight black muscle shirt, thick black jean pants, and gauntlets with open fingers.
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W S. Tooker devised an ingenious method of uniting animal fur backs and leather palms for a seamless back gauntlet.
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Behind the altar stood a round-faced man dressed in the robes of a Gauntlet Knight, though Toryn instinctively knew the man was a fake.
The Gauntlet Thrown Chapter Thirty Six
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The tabard was sleeveless, showing the white long sleeved shirt that the person wore under it, the end of which tucked away underneath simple iron gauntlets.
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As for the rides, well… I got soaked on the thrilling log flumes, ricked my neck on the Gauntlet - a wild loop-the-loop rollercoaster - and felt nauseous on the Galleon.
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The pattern is the Gauntlet pattern from the Not Just Socks book by Sandi Rosner.
October 2005
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Aware how useless was the rifle at close quarters, he slipped both holsters to the fore, ready for action, and drew his mittens till his hands were barely shielded by the elbow gauntlets.
The Sun of the Wolf
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threw down the gauntlet
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Its large oaken slab was of sufficient dimensions to admit of the royal gift being spread in graceful folds over the dark surface of the wood, which the better displayed the tissue's interchanging tints, and also gave room for the disposal of the cap and gloves, which were placed in a kind of armorial crest between its gauntlets, at the head of the scarf, and at its foot was added a beautifully written inscription in old emblazoned characters, historic of the interesting relics above.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The appointment of the risktaker par excellence Bob Diamond at Barclays throws down the gauntlet over banking reform
Two years on and all we get from the banks is two fingers
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They're made of goatskin, with extra-long gauntlets for up-to-the-elbow protection.
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He was quick to take up the gauntlet thrown down by the opposition.
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But after scaling new heights with yesterday's hard earned point, the City manager immediately threw down the gauntlet to his team and challenged them to go one better than last season.
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He had cold, dead eyes and wore a long, thick coat and had black gauntlets on his hands.
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Upon this Oudart put on his sacerdotal, and Loire and his wife their nuptial badges; Trudon piped it, and then tabored it like mad; all made haste to get ready, not forgetting the gauntlets.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Yet the player was more than prepared to run the gauntlet.
The Sun
