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
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)
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
Regular arrangements were made, definite challenges were given and accepted, and fights took place between successive sets of boys as they grew old enough to throw down or take up the gauntlet.
From Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Beers, Fannie A.
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
