But it may have also thrown down the gauntlet to a different adversary: Microsoft .
"The gauntlet has been thrown down to everybody, " said Paul Nicholson, product marketing director for XOOM.
Now India has thrown down the gauntlet against big profits on branded drugs.
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Six shots, six coins thrown down, six chances, and not one of them had killed him, not Nawabdin Electrician.
She has also thrown down the gauntlet to the regulator - saying it is "poorly led and unwilling to accept responsibility".
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.
Lincoln has thrown down the gauntlet when it comes to technology.
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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.
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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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.
"The gauntlet is being thrown down, " said the industry source.
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.
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.
The hero, Shawn MacArthur (Channing Tatum), after being thrown down on cement and flung against display cases and whatever other furniture happens to be around, shows up the next day with no more than a few decorative bruises on his face.
Mr Lubotzky and his party colleagues sided with the opposition in the vote on July 29th, as did Dan Meridor of the ruling Likud party, an erstwhile minister of finance who has now thrown down an open challenge to Mr Netanyahu's leadership.
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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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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Inside, a television remained where it had been thrown face down on the floor, its wires still connected to a cabinet.
Their world is thrown upside down into a maelstrom of chaos.
They were about people who live for a few hours on Friday night, about factories being closed down and workers being thrown on the scrap heap.
When thrown right, the cutter travels straight down the middle before breaking to the left at the last moment.
Scholars have debated for decades about what constitutes the proper tradition for performing his music, while others have thrown tradition out the window and taken Bach down a less serious path.
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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.
As one drives down the beach road, many residents have thrown out mountains of household items which are no longer salvageable.
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In place of the keyboard Stantum has put down its own touchscreen LCD, but despite this thrown together nature, the device is actually surprisingly comfortable to hold and relatively light.
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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.
"The good thing from our point of view is Dylan Hartley has been down to Wales in a tough European game, taken what they have thrown at him on the field, produced a winning performance as captain and taken a team into the knock-out stages of the Heineken Cup, " stated Johnson.
What the author is basically doing is to try to get you to ignore this, but in the end, it comes down to a wealth transfer issue, and all the other arguments are just sand thrown in your eyes.
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Earl was knocked down once more by a right cross early in the second and the towel was thrown in by his corner, only for referee Micky Vann to throw it back out of the ring and continue the fight.
The blizzard died down, leaving the mountains as randomly covered with snow as if a blind woman had thrown a sheet over them, the upper branches of the forest pines limed, creaking, swollen with the fall.
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