Sentences with word «gantlet»

But the fact that they have to do so — and that getting in requires that kids run an unspeakable gantlet of tests, teams, and internships — only shows how little class in the proper sense is worth these days.

Running gantlets toward survival «It was a real surprise to us actually that species may not be able to move along these paths,» said Early.

«Facebook has become so important — not just to business but to society — it can't avoid having to run the congressional gantlet.»

The game features seven modes, including Toad Scramble, a mode with open maps to push your strategy, fast - paced mini-game gantlet Coinathon or Mario Shuffle, in which players maneuver three pieces to their opponent's side of the board.

Mario Party Star Rush will feature seven modes, including Toad Scramble, a mode with open maps to push your strategy, fast - paced mini-game gantlet Coinathon.

Seven hundred miles north of Toronto in the vast prairielike marshes of James Bay, Canada, some 600,000 congregating blue geese put on the biggest show a goose hunter can hope for — their annual rest stop before the 2,000 - mile gantlet run south

New Yorkers know that to make it here, you need a skin thick enough to survive a daily gantlet of conflict.

Even if the so - called Clean Power Plan survives the legal gantlet, however, the United States will still fall short in meeting its pledged reductions for 2025 without significant additional efforts, according to researchers at the federal government's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California.

And any reforms that survive the political gantlet can still end up choking on administrative dust.

Prices like these seemed to sustain dealers, who somehow managed to field nonstop activity despite the fair coming at the end of a unending gantlet of market events that began in March with the Armory Show, continued with the May auctions and Frieze New York, shifted to China for Art Basel Hong Kong, and then to Venice for the Biennale debut before finally concluding in Basel — which, thankfully for all involved, is also an epicenter of the global pharmaceutical industry.

There's certainly plenty of spin these days and will be ever more as the Waxman - Markey climate clean energy and security bill moves slowly through the Capitol Hill gantlet.

Best wishes for successful passage through the analytic / computational / predictive gantlet of climate - change science, Marcia Wyatt and Judith Curry!

«Facebook has become so important — not just to business but to society — it can't avoid having to run the congressional gantlet.»

HPL, a software developer for the semiconductor industry, made it through the gantlet of wary investors, however, and by the closing of its July 31 market debut the company's share price was up 21 %, to $ 13.35.

She walked a gantlet of abuse as she went to the locker room for interviews.

A dozen or more had run the gantlet when the man for whom the crowd had been waiting appeared.

People attending a fundraiser for Rep. Brian Higgins Monday night walked a gantlet of opponents to the South Buffalo Democrat, including Carl Paladino.

Both men were handcuffed in front of their families and taken to federal court in Syracuse, where they faced a gantlet of media photographers, the lawyer said.

Even in an age when every smartphone is both a printing press and a TV studio, our elected officials should be able to run the gantlet of a minor league ball game.

The gantlet of infidelity accusations and ethnic slurs that South Carolina state Rep. Nikki Haley ran Tuesday night to (nearly) win the Republican gubernatorial nod got us to thinking about where the race ranked in the annals of the nastiest contests ever in the Palmetto State.

Fifty - five million years ago, the world abruptly warmed by a scorching 5 degrees Celsius, the oceans turned acidic, and life ran a gantlet of extinction.

Not only did The Shadow, take control of the Mr. Olympia crown for six formidable years, he also laid down the gantlet in the United Kingdom and the rest of Europe — for a short time, Dorian Yates was untouchable.

In the Kremlin or in the field, Dominika runs a gantlet of grossness.

At an overlook at Loch Ewe, a NATO refueling base, is a historic marker commemorating the lost crews of the Atlantic merchant fleets that mustered here before running the gantlet of weather and German U-boats on route to Russia during World War II.

The two - lane test loop quickly narrows into a gantlet of speed bumps and nasty potholes.

Themes include: musing on the South Bronx of the 1980s; recalling the gantlet of the contemporary fine arts academy; and recognizing identities expressed through popular art forms like rap and hip - hop and the confusion generated by overlapping adaptations.

There's no perfect way to go about testing battery life because of several factors, but we force each phone through a gantlet of tests designed to cover many of the most common tasks performed by a mobile device.