Sentences with phrase «running the gauntlet in»

Playing it safe is not an option when running the gauntlet in landscapes riddled with risk against a pack of intensely fierce competitors.

This is one of the hardest video games I have ever played, and it demands that you run the gauntlet in order to best it.

After running the gauntlet in New York this spring, the organisers of Britain's highly successful contemporary art fair Frieze open their second event of the year in London next week.

Despite strong competition from Apple, Google and LG, the 12 - megapixel camera on Samsung's Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge ran the gauntlet in 2016, making it this year's best smartphone camera.

Not exact matches

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.

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!

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.

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

Forwards in the 80s had to run through a gauntlet of horror tackles from opponents and often played on pitches that resembled a plowed field.

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

So unheard of was what researchers discovered in a protein associated with glaucoma that for over two years they ran it through a gauntlet of lab tests and published a new research paper on it.

«I think it's fair to say that the women who have run the gauntlet and gotten advanced STEM degrees will find the labor market quite welcoming if they choose to seek employment in academic STEM jobs,» writes Jennifer Glass, a sociologist at the University of Texas, Austin, in an e-mail.

You may have run the interview gauntlet before then, for summer jobs for example, but the stakes — a career in science, or not — have probably never been so high.

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.

Hbox, No. 2 on the MIOM top 100, ran through a gauntlet of Foxes, which is widely considered to be Jigglypuff's worst match - up in the game.

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.

There is a history of this sort of thing, of course: the 1991 Navy Tailhook scandal, in which female recruits were forced to run a «gauntlet» that amounted to a gang rape; the 1996 accusations of 30 women at the Army Aberdeen Proving Ground; the 142 allegations over a decade at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, which finally surfaced in 2003.

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

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.

While Andrew Garfield does an admirable job of transforming his «aw shucks» character into a man of steadfast conviction who runs a brutal gauntlet to prove his worth, Vince Vaughn feels out of place in every scene.

But that's not all, apparently this huge shake - up that starts in Captain America 3 and runs through The Avengers 3 will lead to a level of instability that will allow Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet to wreak havoc, possibly in The Avengers 4 or some kind of big universe - wide team - up that could include The Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy.

To get there in time, Tobey must run a high - octane, action - packed gauntlet, dodging cops coast - to - coast and dealing with fallout from a dangerous bounty Dino put on his car.

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.

The first game in the series was a bit forced and disjointed, but the sequel was an exciting run the gauntlet.

The hotly anticipated film is the culmination of a thread that's run through much of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since the end of 2012's The Avengers, with Thanos and his minions the Black Order arriving on Earth in a quest for the remaining Infinity Stones, powerful cosmic artifacts that, when assembled as part of the Infinity Gauntlet, will give him dominion over the universe.

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.

During Starlin's 15 issue run on the series, he enforced the idea that Silver Surfer was one of the primary forces for good in Marvel's space titles and began to stoke the embers of what would become the massively popular Infinity Gauntlet series.

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.

Once he had run that gauntlet, his name was posted to a central candidate bank where principals, who had the final say in staffing their schools, could choose to follow up.

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

Running every kid in America through the math gauntlet to get a handful of mathematicians is like buying a bakery to get a loaf of bread.

After running the sweltering, off - camber, decreasing radius Thunderhill gauntlet in the raw GT3, I fell out of the car a sweaty, sore lump.

Also, while I recognize that talk regarding the stereo in such a car is historically reserved for poseurs and met with a gauntlet slap to the face, this Bermester sound system is the best Porsche factory - installed sound system I've run across, though its $ 6,000 - plus option price shines as a beacon of unintentional comedy.

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.

The only place that I know you don't have to «run the gauntlet» to make sure you have bought an ISBN in your own name is either directly from RR Bowker or www.SelfPublishing.com.

In my mind, this is a good tradeoff that's been made, because now people are focusing on the work, not the gauntlet they'd need to run to get their work to an audience.

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).

I ran that gauntlet myself when the last draft of my manuscript clocked in -LSB-...]

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

But before he goes, the writer has plans for Rocket, Groot, Drax and the rest of the interstellar team, inclusion running them through one last gauntlet culminating in a double, if not triple - sized final issue.

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 potencIn 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 potencin Beijing, people aren't so cocksure and don't mind running a gauntlet of penises to guarantee the highest probability of potency.

I found out that if you use the Infinity Gauntlet attack on her in the very beginning, it will give you just enough time to run in and do all your runic attacks hurting her a bunch for free.

On top of my gauntlet I enjoyed using the cave tools in the toybox and I felt satisfied when I built a really incredible maze that even I got lost in, there is mountains of possibilities and unless you run out of fresh ideas there is certainly hours of content for you play through and enjoy in just creating alone and this is without even playing your challenges.

Sledgehammer have shown that there's life in the long - running series yet, and thrown down the gauntlet to Treyarch and Infinity Ward.

FlipSide takes the idea in a different direction, having one player control tho ships simultaneously, each one running a gauntlet where even a glancing contact with the scenery means instant death.

In this mode you build a deck from a choice of cards and run with that in a similar fashion to gauntlet but with two lives and the ability to keep the cards you've choseIn this mode you build a deck from a choice of cards and run with that in a similar fashion to gauntlet but with two lives and the ability to keep the cards you've chosein a similar fashion to gauntlet but with two lives and the ability to keep the cards you've chosen.

As you can tell from the image above, this one is a Thanos Infinity Gauntlet Long Sleeve Tee, allowing you to rule the Galaxy in style with a shirt featuring the coveted Infinity Gauntlet and the six Infinity Stones running up the sleeve!

This means rather than coming to PAX with a singular goal or focus (e.g. talking to press only), exhibitors were running a gauntlet for 4 straight days, chasing several different forms of exposure, and wearing multiple hats to pack in as much as possible.