Gantlet

Crunching over bullet casings, they navigated a gantlet of check posts manned by jittery fighters from the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, some wearing bandages or limping.

His re-election, his legacy and son Hunter Biden’s freedom are all on the line over the course of a month-long gantlet.

Gilligan walks Jesse through a gantlet of frying pans and fires, a series of break-ins and double-crosses as tense and seamless as any “Breaking Bad” caper.

The easier the government makes it for developers to run through the project-approval gantlet, the sooner homeless people will have housing and shelter.