But it may have also thrown down the gauntlet to a different adversary: Microsoft .
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.
It will always be hard to get reforms past the gauntlet of France's street protesters.
The script (by Steven Pressfield, Ronald Shusett, and Don Gilroy) does little more than make Estevez run the gauntlet.
Now India has thrown down the gauntlet against big profits on branded drugs.
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"This paper throws down the gauntlet by showing that Earth is on its way to being warmer, " said David M.
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.
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.
"No matter how much support you get from insiders, activists, fund raisers, you still gotta run the gauntlet, " says longtime Republican strategist Charles Black.
Three years ago, Schwarzenegger appeared to throw down the gauntlet, saying the union was an obstacle to his efforts to reform the state's prisons department.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller told the BBC "the gauntlet has been thrown down" to newspapers to outline how they would set up tough self-regulation instead.
Marketing maverick Seth Godin is throwing down the gauntlet, again.
Lincoln has thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to technology.
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He deployed against her the gauntlet Murrow threw down to Sen.
Massa had thrown down the gauntlet in the first session, zooming round his home circuit in a blistering 1:11.830 - the fastest time of the weekend.
Although the two firms reaffirmed a commitment to a long-term partnership via joint press releases in September 2010, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has since thrown down the gauntlet.
International companies cannot access an inventory of vital American satellite components and place orders as the need develops because each component must run the gauntlet of export controls.
"The gauntlet is being thrown down, " said the industry source.
Rangers manager Walter Smith laid down the gauntlet to Panathinaikos, abandoning his tried and trusted 4-5-1 formation and fielding strikers Kris Boyd and Novo in an attacking starting XI.
McIlroy aims to get back in the swing -- and respond to the gauntlet thrown down by Woods at the Houston Open, where he could return to the No. 1 ranking with victory.
Although it had no legal standing, the event was the symbolic equivalent of laying down the gauntlet to the president-elect, Felipe Calderon, who won the July 2nd vote by less than 1 percent.
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However, Mr Gandhi seems to have gamely picked up the gauntlet at last, and "must be complimented", as The Hindu newspaper remarked, "on choosing to walk the difficult path at a difficult time".
And this year, despite optimistic forecasts of a great flurry of wings, Scottish gamekeepers think that there has been only a marginal increase in the number of birds flying the gauntlet of the guns.
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