Gauntlet [noun]

Both cases, you’ve got to run through this gauntlet of regulations.

“The politics of the situation here is that this is Paytm throwing down the gauntlet to Google,” Medianama notes.

Which means SaaS and cloud companies have made it through a somewhat steep gauntlet largely unscathed.

Two teams are competing for the chance to go through that gauntlet to get the deal.

If I’m going, it’s not to say, “Look, we’re throwing down the gauntlet, and this is now a purely adversarial relationship.”

He saw Black Hood's gauntlet gloved hand closed on the handle of the knife that was thrust into Joseph's neck.

Black Hood slapped him hard across the side of the face with his gauntlet covered hand.

It showed Black Hood's gauntlet covered right hand grasping the knife that was plunged into Joseph's throat.

He had run the gauntlet through rows of pointed steel, and now new horrors awaited him.

Go either way, and he in the majority of instances must run the gauntlet of the slave states.