She has also thrown down the gauntlet to the regulator - saying it is "poorly led and unwilling to accept responsibility".

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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.

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Unable to stay on the coach's bench, he played for two more seasons, despite his 40-year-old body often breaking down under the onslaught of being thrown around the court with all of its owner's legendary enthusiasm.

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Labour - which served two terms as the Holyrood government with the Liberal Democrats - had to engage seriously with the constitutional challenge thrown down by the Nationalists.

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Also sadly, nobody's saying nothing about ATI's Hollywood graphics chip that's coming to the system, either out of ignorance or NDA-ance, but the general feel is that the system should thrown down about triple the graphics of the GameCube, but won't really be the same league as the energy loving 360 or the largish PS3.

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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.

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Young mother Ms Kift, a front-seat passenger, was thrown from the car as it flipped over a hedge and rolled down a bank in the early hours.

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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.

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