36 Sentences With "throwing down the gauntlet"

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Panera Bread is once again throwing down the gauntlet to its competitors.
Other Perspectives: Alabama and Georgia Are Throwing Down the Gauntlet against Roe. Good.
In the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft is throwing down the gauntlet.
Mr. Talvacchio and the editors are throwing down the gauntlet right out of the gate.
For the most part, it has wisely avoided throwing down the gauntlet directly to Amazon.
Throwing down the gauntlet to his counterparts in Madrid, he said the referendum result was "binding".
By making anti-corruption their No. 1 priority, House Democrats are throwing down the gauntlet for Republicans.
Schumer has sought to rally liberals in his party by throwing down the gauntlet over Trump's anticipated nomination to the Supreme Court.
Warren is throwing down the gauntlet that to her an anti-Trump stance shouldn't mean a knee-jerk embrace of everything that Trump criticizes.
Throwing down the gauntlet: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has issued a warning to the president to disband the administration's voter fraud commission.
Dr. Oz is throwing down the gauntlet like we've never seen anyone do before -- daring to challenge shredded Mark Wahlberg to a physical fitness competition!!!
On Tuesday, Kim issued a televised address from Pyongyang -- where the new year arrived 14 hours ahead of Washington -- and wasted no time throwing down the gauntlet.
Google is throwing down the gauntlet and trying to crash Amazon's annual Prime Day party with an almost too-good-to-be-true deal on Alexa's biggest competition.
When he raps, "So many doubt 'cause I come from the South / but when I open up my mouth, all bullets come out," he's throwing down the gauntlet.
European Commission officials have expressed dismay and frustration at Italy's rebellious stance over spending but the coalition is largely unrepentant about its plans, throwing down the gauntlet to Brussels.
Wielding rhymes sharp enough for close-quarters combat, sporting an uncompromising attitude, and holding absolutely nothing back, the Bronx MC known as Maliibu Miitch is throwing down the gauntlet.
SAP SE aims to double the size of its sales and marketing software business within two years, its top salesman told Reuters, throwing down the gauntlet to market leader Salesforce .
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - SAP SE aims to double the size of its sales and marketing software business within two years, its top salesman told Reuters, throwing down the gauntlet to market leader Salesforce.
FRANKFURT, June 21 (Reuters) - SAP SE aims to double the size of its sales and marketing software business within two years, its top salesman told Reuters, throwing down the gauntlet against market leader Salesforce.
Elon Musk recently announced plans for his company SpaceX to send people to the Red Planet, swiftly followed by Boeing throwing down the gauntlet by boldly stating that it will get to Mars first.
Chargers players Donavon Clark & Tyrell Williams are throwing down the gauntlet to L.A. football fans ... saying the time is now to choose their team, 'cause the bandwagon will be full at a later date.
Whatever the personal roller coaster, the decision of throwing down the gauntlet on the steel/aluminum tariffs against America's closest allies signals just how extended the reach of the hyper-nationalist faction is. 4.
It felt like Fox was throwing down the gauntlet by calling out YouTube and Facebook by name and offering competing metrics, and I bet we'll see a lot more of that in coming months.
In throwing down the gauntlet so emphatically, and potentially riling up a Democratic electorate, Mr. McConnell was doing something deeply out of character: putting at risk his and his party's prospects in the coming election.
But like, the fact that I'm putting my name in the hat and throwing down the gauntlet that I want to edge towards being better in this field feels like a crazy thing to do.
But the president also promised to scrap the landmark agreement in 120 days if Congress and European allies don't meet his new demands for strengthening the deal — throwing down the gauntlet on a signature achievement of Barack Obama's presidency.
Debating the real king of R&B is so 2018 ... with 2019 in full swing, Yung Joc's throwing down the gauntlet and challenging Usher to settle once and for all who's the real king of the hair & fleek style.
ROME, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Italy would oppose capping banks' holdings of domestic sovereign bonds, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Wednesday, throwing down the gauntlet to European policymakers who are considering a cap to strengthen the euro zone banking system.
LONDON/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Vodafone is to spend about 2215.69 billion euros ($2.4 billion) on providing new ultra fast fiber broadband connections to homes and businesses in Germany, throwing down the gauntlet to rivals, including former state-owned monopoly Deutsche Telekom.
To be sure, the tight-lipped company hasn't given any public indication that a self-driving iCar is imminent, even with everyone from Nissan to Blackberry to VW throwing down the gauntlet as this week's Consumer Electronics Show wraps up in Las Vegas.
LONDON/BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain said on Monday it could not agree a divorce deal with the European Union without a framework pact on future relations, throwing down the gauntlet to the bloc which also says it cannot move on talks until London does.
"I think brick-and-mortar (stores) are throwing down the gauntlet and saying, we are going to have more customer facing employees to try to hopefully take advantage of the competitive aspect that might be hard for online retailers to duplicate - that service and expertise in stores," said Christian Magoon, chief executive officer of Amplify ETFs.
Worsley, p. 94. As Strong says, William's insistence "signalled the end of a whole litany of symbolic acts going back to the middle ages, including the coronation banquet, the ritual of the King's Champion throwing down the gauntlet, and endless petty actions related to land tenure". William and Adelaide travelled to and from the Abbey in the Gold State Coach, or Coronation Coach, made for George III in 1762 and used in all coronations from 1831. This began the provision of public spectacle for the masses.
The role of the squire was to attend the battle and to arrange the particulars of the ceremony with the opposing squire. Over time, squires would meet and resolve the disputes during negotiations over combat. Ample time was made for this by creating a process for checking the saddle and bridle of horses for prayer scrolls and enchantments and requiring litigants to exchange gloves (the origin of "throwing down the gauntlet") and sometimes to go to separate churches and give five pence (for the five wounds of Christ) to the church. Early trials by combat allowed a variety of weapons, particularly for knights.
The Perfect Mile: Three Athletes, One Goal, and Less Than Four Minutes to Achieve It (2004) by Neal Bascomb is a non-fiction book about three runners and their attempts to become the first man to run a mile under four minutes and their first subsequent head-to-head competition. The runners are Englishman Roger Bannister, American Wes Santee, and Australian John Landy. June 21, 1954: Less than six weeks after Bannister’s historic feat, Australian John Landy runs 3:58 at a track meet in Finland, throwing down the gauntlet. August 7, 1954: The Empire Games in Vancouver, Canada, pits the two titans against one another in an event billed the “Miracle Mile.” The Perfect Mile (also called the Miracle Mile) is not against the clock, rather it is what was required in heated competition between John Landy and Roger Bannister.
Bruce-Smith hosted the British industry's emerging female talent dinner in 2017, and is said to have gone out of her way to encourage both new and female talent in all aspects of the industry. In 2016, she spoke with Womanthology on diversity in the industry, saying that while female roles were on the rise there was still a lack of women writers, directors, and directors of photography. She also acknowledged "there is still a lot to be done to [...] keep diversity uppermost in our minds when taking the development decisions about which stories to focus on". In 2018, as deputy director of Film4, Bruce-Smith said that they had made use of Film London's Equal Access Network to hire people from more diverse backgrounds and, after Frances McDormand referenced the inclusion rider in her 2018 Academy Best Actress speech (for the Bruce-Smith backed Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), explained the concept of the inclusion rider and said that McDormand was "throwing down the gauntlet to the industry" with her public mention.

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