Sentences with phrase «run the gauntlets of»

It ran a gauntlet of approvals upon approvals.

It seems that the redundancies of bitter atheists does run the gauntlets of chaliced forsakenness.

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!

Faith does run the gauntlets of all societal quandaries be they Godly or even godless and also ungodly.

Perversionisms run the gauntlets of civilization's streams of bickering whineries!

Brilliant people run the gauntlets of all manners and mannerisms of social peculiarities from agnostic to gnostic to very religious to being atheistically orientated.

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

tomorrow at work will run the gauntlet of humiliation as ever no doubt.

To summarise maybe complacently is deep rooted within our club right from the board, through to the management and to the fan base that are happy to settle for the stability of a reliable underachieving management regime rather than run the gauntlet of change and with that change bringing new blood which poses an element of risk.

But Wenger decided to stay and run the gauntlet of further protests from Arsenal fans.

Get home from the game at 11 last night, in work this morning running the gauntlet of shame over our loss.....

To summarise, maybe complacentcy is deep rooted within our club right from the Board, through to the management and to the fan base that are happy to settle for the stability of a reliable underachieving management regime rather than run the gauntlet of change and with that change bringing new blood which poses an element of risk.

From morning sickness to back pain, sleeplessness, to swelling, and inexplicably itchy skin, I've run the gauntlet of pregnancy woes.

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

This year marks the sixth time the incumbent has run the gauntlet of public opinion to get elected to the County Legislature.

Such costs include: (1) metabolic energy that must be devoted to mating and meiosis; (2) energy and time expended locating a mating partner; (3) that only 50 % of parental genes are transmitted to any given progeny or that two individuals are required to produce one progeny (resulting in the so - called 2-fold cost of sex); and (4) the fact that two genomes that have run the gauntlet of adaptive selection are shuffled during the process, breaking apart well - adapted genomic configurations [57].

On the outside, your face must run the gauntlet of exposure to the sun's UV rays and pollutants in the air.

Alexandre Aja's re-imagining runs a gauntlet of malevolent moments.

The climactic set pieces in which Tris runs a gauntlet of virtual - reality scenarios are created largely with CGI.

Valiant Digital and Bat in the Sun have released the first trailer for Ninjak vs. The Valiant Universe, the upcoming live - action digital series which sees Ninjak running a gauntlet of Valiant's greatest heroes; check it out below after the official synopsis... Colin King is Ninjak, MI - 6's deadliest intelligence operative, and weapons expert.

It is probably too dark and too much an unflattering portrait of Hollywood to run the gauntlet of awards season.

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.

Sebastian Lelio's story of a Spanish trans woman running a gauntlet of hostility and abuse from her dead lover's family cuts to the core of our expectations about equality or mere civilised behaviour (its Spanish title is Una Mujer Fantastica).

In Arizona, where charter schools will not have to run the gauntlet of a hostile regulator, that sector is likely to thrive.

He spat every few feet but could not expel the taste of decay as he ran the gauntlet of junkies and working girls out early or up all night and every bit as sick as he was.

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).

Unlike the Section 108 Study Group — a body that recommends changes to the part of copyright law that covers libraries, which ironically has little bearing on the issue at hand — it is possible for anyone to submit a request for a DMCA exemption to the Copyright Office without first having to run a gauntlet of copyright industry lobbyists.

Apple does have a little known process to publish your own books but it involves a validated ePub file, ISBN identifiers from the Library of Congress and a willingness to run the gauntlet of contracts, paperwork, and use iTunes Connect.

In Uncommon Ground the group need supplies so have to run the gauntlet of the zombies again.

The result of this is that food bowls, litter boxes, water sources and resting places need to be distributed throughout the house in a way that enables all of the cats to access the appropriate resource without running the gauntlet of another cat if they should need to eat, rest, drink or use the litter box at the same time.

In Japan, the bull is believed to be the most potent of animals, though in Beijing, people aren't so cocksure and don't mind running a gauntlet of penises to guarantee the highest probability of potency.

402's abandoned yearling runs a gauntlet of bears along Brooks River.

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.

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.

Few wish to run the gauntlet of criticizing poorly conducted, highly subjective «science» which is purported to help, or indeed, of daring to question the basis of problematic scientific paradigms that arise in part from good intentions.

Almost any new idea in science (or contrary one for that matter) must run the gauntlet of criticism.

Those who choose to run the gauntlet of the legal system without the benefit of professional advice are known as litigants in person, and until recently the Courts (with some justifiable reason) have afforded litigants in person far more flexibility in respect of the various procedures and protocols that ought to be followed than they would a practitioner.

As far as members of private sector schemes are concerned, the Human Rights Act 1998 does not apply although providers will no doubt wish to avoid running the gauntlet of operating schemes which discriminate unfairly on grounds of marital status.

They have run the gauntlet of independent to multi-branch independent to national franchise and back.

Speaking of rock bottom, we ran the gauntlet of requisite crazies at the bus stop on route to the discount warehouse / barbecue restaurant.

The kids have to run the gauntlet of clothes piles and baskets on the way to their bedrooms (but I don't think they really care).

Not exact matches

I've been wet shaving for a number of years and have run the gauntlet on double edged blades.

The would - be priest runs a gauntlet that, the accumulating evidence indicates, all too often screens out healthy heterosexual men who are religiously orthodox, traditional in their piety, and resistant to manipulative therapeutic techniques that only thinly disguise an ideology of dissent.

A single kale salad that ran the gauntlet, beating out all others, for a slice of limelight.

For those of you who accepted the challenge when I laid down the gauntlet, we'll be using the hashtag #runwithdara (thanks to Sarah of Will Run for Pasta for kicking this off) on Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook and so on when posting about our training runs, moments of fatigue or inspiration, and races.

He knows the sad gauntlet that a fighter has to run — work during the day, lonely hours in the gym at night, short purses, the dead - end frustration of it all.

They ran through the gauntlet of the regular season, again, just like nine other teams, but then they hacked their way through the rest to get to the steel cage match.

Whoever is the final Team left standing will have earned it, running through a gauntlet of either 4 or 5 Games..