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Gauntlet in Russia, 1845. To run the gauntlet means to take part in a form of corporal punishment in which the party judged guilty is forced to run between two rows of soldiers, who strike out and attack them with sticks or other weapons. Metaphorically, this expression is also used to convey a public trial that one must overcome.
Move the article to gauntlet (disambiguation) or running the gauntlet as "fustuarium" is not a well-known word. Explain "running the gauntlet" in its well-known (non-fatal) variations. Emphasize the distinction between the form of execution and the punishment which gives the person a chance of living.
Lieutenant Paula Puopolo (then Coughlin) blew the whistle on a run-the-gauntlet ritual, in which male officers lined the third-floor corridor of the convention hotel to harass and assault women passing through.
To do that, I had to run the TSA gauntlet yet again. Upon exiting the security scanner and being asked to stop, I made peace with the humiliating pat-down that I knew was coming.
A contender had to "run the gauntlet" by passing Gladiators armed with ramrods. Originally played with three Gladiators, Gauntlet became one of the staple events after a revamp in series 3 in which the contenders had to run a narrower gauntlet against five Gladiators, the second and fourth having power pads to slow the contenders down.
Simon Kenton was born at the headwaters of Mill Run in the Bull Run Mountains on April 3, 1755, in Prince William County, Virginia, to Mark Kenton Sr., an immigrant from County Down, Ireland, and Mary (Miller) Kenton, who was of Scottish and Welsh ancestry.
The Dawgs have survived stretches like this before. Back in 2021, they faced Arkansas (No. 8), Auburn (No. 18) and Kentucky (No. 11) in a three-week stretch, and won by a combined score of 101-23.
It was also used as the finishing point for a punishment for minor misdemeanours; the guilty party would be stripped naked and made to run the gauntlet of citizens lining the streets from Piazza San Marco to the Rialto, saving themselves further humiliation by kissing the statue. By the 19th century, time had taken its toll on the statue.