take up the gauntlet
Example Sentences
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Two new books, one from each of these two perspectives, take up the gauntlet of explaining successful innovation.
From New York Times • Sep. 4, 2010
The courage to take up the gauntlet for his wife, to make a scene, to silence his cousin, is a courage he does not possess.
From A Terrible Secret by Fleming, May Agnes
It thus became necessary to take up the gauntlet thrown down to us, and to fight out the struggle whether we liked it or not.
From Socialism: Utopian and Scientific by Engels, Friedrich
Be that as it may, Varro is made to take up the gauntlet and to rush away at once amid the philosophers.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
As if to take up the gauntlet, a faint zephyr flicked the listless cheek of the ocean, and slapped the sails.
From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
