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.
In classic fashion, the president has cast the gauntlet before the other branches of government.
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.
Dozens more men were sentenced to "run the gauntlet" inside the stockade.
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.
It is trying to throw down the gauntlet to the coalitions led by the governing Congress and opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
In addition, on February 17, 2012, Chairman Turner and 33 other Members of Congress threw down the gauntlet in a letter to Mr. Obama.
"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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It is the administration, not Israel that threw down the gauntlet.
He deployed against her the gauntlet Murrow threw down to Sen.
It does show that President Obama is laying down the gauntlet and trying to reclaim the hearts and minds of those who voted him into office.
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In their missive, the signatories have thrown down the gauntlet, aligning themselves with an approach to nuclear deterrence fundamentally at odds with that of Team Obama.
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.
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