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
I will take up the gauntlet he has thrown down.
From Vineta The Phantom City by Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)
And in all chivalrous France was there not a champion to take up the gauntlet in defence of a helpless girl?
From Recitations for the Social Circle by Harvey, James Clarence
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
