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
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.
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
Some who were too fond of controversy, as they grew wiser, have refused to take up the gauntlet.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 by Disraeli, Isaac
“No, he’s not,” said I, ready to take up the gauntlet for my friend; “and you’d better not say it again!”
From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
