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
His old friend, Madison, was one of the first to take up the gauntlet thus boldly thrown before the sincere friends of the Constitution.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Van Buren, Martin
Pitt resolved to take up the gauntlet flung down by these two powerful Societies.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
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
But he was now grown wiser, and would not take up the gauntlet.
From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William
