Similar words: up against, against, against the grain, against a rainy day, go against, as against, set against, pit against.
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1. The community centre scheme has run up against strong local opposition.
2. The museum has run up against opposition to its proposals.
3. I never run up against anything like this.
4. But here we run up against the difficulty that this formulation appears to derive a prescriptive conclusion from two factual premisses.
5. Time and time again they have run up against unsurmountable problems of distributing and getting the drugs accepted.
6. Whatever plan he dreams up is bound to run up against the ambitions and obstinacy of a lot of powerful colleagues.
7. Per haps he's never run up against any walls.
8. You'll find the job very difficult. You will run up against some very tricky problems.
9. Yet the new products can run up against longtime habits and even cultural concepts of cleanliness.
10. When our principles run up against our interests[Sentencedict], which should we adhere to?
11. Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.
12. In keeping a diary in English, we inevitably run up against a lot of difficulties.
13. You will see this vapid air of yours run up against an outlandish shame of living.
14. Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve before going to the board.
15. Even so, you'veprobably also run up against people who love your idealism, but warn you tolower your sights, to scale back your ambitions a bit, to settle for somethingless.
16. We may run up against some difficulties but we are confident of overcoming them.
17. If you try to change the name of the school you will run up against a lot of opposition.
18. When scientists attempt to unravel the mysteries of the past they always run up against a brick wall.
19. Our best intentions regarding conservation and carbon reduction inevitably run up against the realities of foreclosure and bankruptcy and unemployment.
20. If he tries to change the rules of the club he will run up against a lot of oppositions.
21. Every time we try to get the scheme going we seem to run up against yet another problem.
22. Over the course of a long marriage, you're bound to run up against financial issues that you didn't plan for.
23. This is one of the most puzzling cases I have ever run up against.
24. But many attempts to link doctrine and economics have run up against exceptions and better explanations.
25. Rather, it was stopped. Abruptly the near side of it flattened as though it had run up against an invisible wall. It bounced , actually bounced back.
26. But this system of "direct exchange" of useful goods, or ''barter, " has severe limitations which exchangers soon run up against.
27. That means telecoms can finally put fiber-optic lines into people's homes, where cables often run up against right angles and tight squeezes from the sidewalk to the house.
28. It recognizes, however, the value of second-best solutions in a political environment where reforms of health care are likely to come slowly because they run up against many powerful vested interests.
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