Sentences with phrase «run the gauntlet by»

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He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

At the combine, prospects run the gauntlet of drills while retired NFL veterans stand close by to help guide them into the league

Although there's half a chance the parties might decide to avoid running the gauntlet of the press by holding their talks in parliament.

The gauntlet Juno ran at Jupiter held many chances for catastrophe: The spacecraft might have been knocked out by intense magnetic fields (at that distance, 20 times stronger than Earth's), ionizing radiation (a total dose of 265 rads — more than enough to kill a human being), dust particles from Jupiter's rings (from which the main engine was completely unshielded) or loss of power if the solar arrays were unable to reorient to the sun.

One company that decided to run this gauntlet was a dating service built by a programmer in Manchester that had a classic niche proposition — to match singles who liked people with beards, to people who had beards.

Other significant personal preems, in order of original release, included: Buster Keaton's Go West (1925) and College (directed by James V. Horne, 1927); Howard Hughes's and James Whale's Hell's Angels (1928 - 30), featuring (sorry, other Howard) the most awesome aerial scenes I've ever witnessed; John Ford's Up the River (1930) and Airmail (1932); Michael Curtiz's The Kennel Murder Case (1933), utterly silly but quite beguiling as an empty exercise in directorial pizzazz; Gordon Wiles's — and Daniel Fuchs's — The Gangster (1947), an archetypal arty film noir; Val Lewton's Apache Drums; (directed by Hugo Fregonese, 1951); Richard Fleischer's The Narrow Margin (1952); Robert Bresson's Quâtre Nuits d'un rêveur (1971); Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Phil Karlson's Framed (1975); Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet (1977); and Robert Mulligan's Bloodbrothers (1978), which returned to Seattle (after a five - day first run in» 78) only via Showtime.

But the joy of the holidays just means added stress for the heroines of A Bad Moms Christmas (played again by Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, and Kathryn Hahn), for whom yuletide cheer becomes more like running a gauntlet when their respective terrible mothers (played by Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, and Cheryl Hines) show up unannounced for some forced family bonding time.

We see brutality, as the Irish prisoners are forced to bathe and run a gauntlet of British guards, in riot gear, as they are beaten by batons that are being banged against plastic shields, but McQueen does a wise thing, and briefly shows a split screen shot of one of the guards, who has snuck away from the gauntlet, and is weeping in a dark private room.

When a film like that is released late in the game people have already fallen in love with it, studios have already gotten it seen by people who do early voting so it is likely that the PGA will have seen it — it is likely that it will have already run the Twitter gauntlet and passed with flying colors.

Step up to the plate Bite the bullet Have the courage of your convictions Gird up your loins Grow a set Screw your courage to the sticking post Take the bull by the horns Throw caution to the wind Put your ass on the line Fly into the face of danger Run the gauntlet And hang in there.

With its teenage protagonist, Maybe A Miracle has the potential to appeal to readers from the older teens through to adults, both men and women; and with subject matter that runs the gauntlet of hot topic subjects, including religion and politics, this is also a shoe - in for book clubs who enjoy a little contention in their reading matter... (Reviewed by BookBrowse Review Team).

Sacramento's restaurants by our hotel run the taste gauntlet from classic American fare to authentic ethnic cuisines.

You can run the gauntlet, which is free, and pit your deck against a series of different computer controlled enemies capped off by a boss.

Iridium is also drained by the simple process of running so laps around IR's tracks are an amalgamation of Mario Kart's «shoot, drive, and slide your way across the line» and Gauntlet «s «collect food if you want to live» gameplay concepts.

In addition to the Nintendo Switch version receiving triple the number of save slots and the EX Characters gaining the «call SOPHIA» ability, the biggest addition is a new Boss Blaster Mode (unlocked by beating the game) that allows you to run a gauntlet of the game's bosses one after another, putting your claim of being a Master of Blasting to the test.

It would've been a lot of fun to run a gauntlet of random levels either by myself or to see how I stack up against players from around the world.

For example, a piece of equipment that has been approved by safety regulators in one country shouldn't have to run the same legal gauntlet in a country with similar standards.

It is possible that future policies developed by the EPA will have to run the gauntlet of a «red team» — a group of scientifically savvy experts who look to see past the rhetoric and ask inconvenient questions of the proposers.

No, I am proud to say that nothing I have ever written has had to run the gauntlet of review by the government sponsored PR campaigners that pass for climate scientists these days.

We began our testing by running the Fidelio through a gauntlet of different genres from our music catalog with our Bluetooth - connected iPhone 5.

And the buyers are so exhausted by the gauntlet they've already run that they're not interested in spending any time learning more about the policies and shopping around for a better one.