But it may have also thrown down the gauntlet to a different adversary: Microsoft .
Cezanne's death created a vacuum and challenge: Who would or could pick up the great man's gauntlet?
Lorries carrying coal were running the gauntlet of striking miners picketing the colliery gates.
Eyeing the challenge from HP, IBM's software chief, Steven Mills, throws down the gauntlet.
"The gauntlet has been thrown down to everybody, " said Paul Nicholson, product marketing director for XOOM.
Beekeepers, meantime, are shaking out their white cotton coveralls, netted veils and gauntlet-style gloves.
Two lines of Apple employees in blue shirts formed a gauntlet leading to the store entrance.
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It will always be hard to get reforms past the gauntlet of France's street protesters.
Having already run the political gauntlet for years, the proposal would face a logistical nightmare if approved.
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However Tracey Emin, who was nominated in 1999, warned the prize was "a bit of a gauntlet".
Even though it was a gauntlet to run, there were some great aspects of the Google hiring process.
T. gauntlet and might have been granted special dispensation to use some special tool or have certain non-standard access?
These new powers may increase the number of medicines that make it to market through the regulatory gauntlet, too.
Getting approval for any transgenic crop or food is like running a torturous gauntlet, both arduous and bureaucratic.
The script (by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, and Don Gilroy) does little more than make Estevez run the gauntlet.
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Being a parent is an endless gauntlet of emotions and worry and joy.
Given those concerns, Jenkins and Seligman suggest that if Merck wants to bring Vioxx back, it must run a gauntlet.
"This paper throws down the gauntlet by showing that Earth is on its way to being warmer, " said David M.
Overall, legislators seemed amenable to the argument, a sign that these deals may eventually pass unmolested through the regulatory gauntlet.
But winning the race to become governor of California pales next to the gauntlet you must survive to win the presidency.
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She has also thrown down the gauntlet to the regulator - saying it is "poorly led and unwilling to accept responsibility".
Instead, Mr. Bush's only hope of realizing his goal of defending America against missile attack is to throw down the gauntlet.
While a number of companies made it through the gauntlet, names like Groupon and Zynga broke below their IPO level.
Alcoa, but its going to be a gauntlet for investors as there are more than 1, 100 companies reporting results this week alone.
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The Center for Security Policy believes that the Bush Administration should regard such statements as a throwing down of the proverbial gauntlet.
Maybe -- we'll let you know how it holds up in the real world after stringing it through the Engadget review gauntlet.
The gauntlet's hard plastic shell is even roomy enough to add GPS equipment, biometrics, chemical sensors, or other embedded additions, as needed.
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But a repeal vote would throw down the gauntlet and demonstrate the current mood in the House, which reflects the country as a whole.
But even when a state allows it, this results in a gauntlet of legal woes, requiring insolvency tests, negotiations with bondholders and so forth.
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