It was a brave or rash miner who, under police protection, was prepared to run the daily gauntlet of hate from his neighbours to go to work.

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Dozens more men were sentenced to "run the gauntlet" inside the stockade.

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With all the above boxes ticked, it is essential to have a plan once you have run the gauntlet of airport-style security -- there are 4, 000 Swiss troops in Davos this week -- and made it inside the newly-extended Congress Center with the correct color of identity pass.

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Now, Chairman Pitt is under no fewer than three different investigations -- not counting the congressional gauntlet he will have to run next week -- in connection with yet another debacle.

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Foreign physical therapists need to run a gauntlet of tests and procedures before even confronting the lack of an H-1B visa or green card.

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We can only hope that, if American troops must run the gauntlet while abandoning Iraq in order to meet some politically and arbitrarily imposed deadline, they will be welcomed home in much the same way as were British forces who survived the evacuation known as the "miracle of Dunkirk" in 1940.

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Even though it was a gauntlet to run, there were some great aspects of the Google hiring process.

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By this weekend, approximately 300 NFL prospects from across the United States will have descended upon Indianapolis, Indiana to willingly be poked, prodded, interrogated and run through a gauntlet of physical challenges in what is known as the NFL Scouting Combine.

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