She has also thrown down the gauntlet to the regulator - saying it is "poorly led and unwilling to accept responsibility".
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 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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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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But a repeal vote would throw down the gauntlet and demonstrate the current mood in the House, which reflects the country as a whole.
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.
Despite the gauntlet that is the United States Patent and Trademark Office, many of the trademarks which are allowed by the Trademark Office are opposed by some competitor in an administrative law tribunal because they feel the mark violated one of the rules of registration.
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Lorries carrying coal were running the gauntlet of striking miners picketing the colliery gates.
The Pfizer scientists "have thrown down the gauntlet: They claim that the reported Sirtris compounds do not do what they are claimed to do, " pharmaceutical chemist Derek Lowe, wrote recently on his popular In The Pipeline blog.
President John F Kennedy's speech at Rice University in 1961, which laid down the gauntlet for a landing on the Moon, seemed a daunting challenge at the time, especially when the US had only sent Alan Shepard on a 20-minute sub-orbital flight.
Writers and painters seem to pick up the gauntlet only when pushed to the wall or when under a spotlight (why did a petition by India's writers to the government to lift the ban on The Satanic Verses come 23 years after the book was banned?).
Having already run the political gauntlet for years, the proposal would face a logistical nightmare if approved.
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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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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.
Having failed in his bid for a massive development project around a new hockey arena, New York Islanders owner Charles Wang is throwing down the gauntlet to local taxpayers: you want the Islanders to say, float us the money.
"The gauntlet is being thrown down, " said the industry source.
Among the revealing tidbits: Kilar has thrown down the gauntlet before, allegedly claiming he would leave the company when his contract expired unless subscriber fees were lowered to a price-point appealing enough for potential users of Hulu Plus, rather than simply the increasingly-threatened owners of it.
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Thankfully, President Bush's stirring throw-down-the-gauntlet speech in August at the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention and his surprise visit to Iraq in September demonstrate that the Commander in Chief has no intention of undercutting our newfound successes in Iraq.
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".
If your organization can perfect it, the Idea Gauntlet can be used not only for the executive summary, but also to shatter group think, evaluate proposed features, and even help structure your core business model.
Even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
Second, even if, against all odds, the Security Council does throw down the gauntlet to Saddam, he is virtually certain to allow intrusive inspections to resume rather than giving the U.S. a pretext for internationally supported action against him.
But it may have also thrown down the gauntlet to a different adversary: Microsoft .
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.
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.
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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