up against

I was outside, feeling fairly helpless, waiting to see if I would be lined up against the wall and shot.

They can do a bit of damage but are not really capable of much up against the coercive power of the state.

The hurt receded and he felt boneless as he leaned up against the broad chest in front of him.

The doors and windows are closed, as they have been since Friday, and the dinner table is now pushed up against the front door.

China's banks haven't always found it easy to move into new markets, coming up against reluctance from local regulators to let them in.

" Passed a few days, bunny comes up against a peacock, envy the ground to ask again: " Your tail, does for what so multicoloured spot rot?

You know you won't beat him. Your big furry friend over there, he has no idea what he's up against. Yeah, but neither does Gutt.

( Laughs) No! They could have used plenty of shots of me looking cool, surfing, but they had to use the one of me peeing up against a rock!

It might seem as if you are running up against an obstacle today, but this could be a projection of your inner turmoil.

Between mid-May and early June the Treasury will bump up against the legal limit on how much debt it may issue.

The players on show are all illustrious names and talented footballers, so to be able to come up against them is a fantastic opportunity.

Back in May the government bumped up against that limit, but various accounting dodges have been used to keep funds flowing.

"It is very difficult to stop Stevie when he is at his best but we have to remember who we are up against, " said the Reds manager.

As he rambled on, about himself, his past life, the wind rose up against the cottage like the prodding of a giant hand.

The Japanese Zero could virtually sweep the skies of any Allied fighters courageous enough to go up against it.

But the men that went up with him said, We are not able to go up against the people; for they are stronger than we.

A minute or two later the skiff's head was standing high up, against the boat's swell, and the voyage was begun.

The tradeoff is that they have to be right up against the enemy, rather than able to attack from a distance.

He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.

The Pakistani schoolgirl hailed around the world for her efforts to stand up against the Taliban is out of the hospital.

In order to maintain the right amount of stiffness, your muscles need to know how much resistance they're up against.

And Ahab killed an abundance of sheep and oxen for him and for the people who were with him, and induced him to go up against Ramoth-gilead.

So he remains for a minute or two, heaped up against it, and then staggers down the shop to the front door.

Our record over the last four years stands up against any club in Europe in terms of getting within spitting distance of the final.

When companies trying to find new drugs come up against the nonreproducibility problem, the repercussions can be significant.

John, disappointed in himself, in his cowardice, banged his head up against the wall and groaned, exasperated.

But the hastily built levees will still have to hold up against the ice-laden water that's expected to remain high for at least a week.

He rules forever by his power, his eyes watch the nations- let not the rebellious rise up against him.

The same attack was being cooked up against Hague: that he might have employed someone he loved.

He stood the paper up against a backing, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint.

Diego is currently out with a slight thigh strain that he picked up against Lazio last weekend, but he's hoping to be back very soon.

He got to his feet shakily , and stood up against the wall . I then closed the door and ordered him to fight .

The Nike iPod lets you upload your workout details to see how you stack up against others or to compete against friends.

The question that she continued to come up against, however, concerned internal radiation.

He pushed Parkin up against the door, held the point of the knife at his throat, and said, "Be still or I'll kill you. "

He sat him down on the bottom step, then sort of squeezed up against him[6] and pointed to the car.

The fight he put up against me was unbelievable and I congratulate him for that.

In time, they said, the moving ocean floor is blocked when it comes up against the edge of a continent.

I bet the Soviet brass stood that poor guy up against one of those burned out aircraft and shot him on the spot!

At the same moment the convict screamed out a curse at us and hurled a rock which splintered up against the boulder which had sheltered us.

I told you to stick your finger somewhere else. You came up to me with your finger right up against my nose.

But if you are competing in the Champions League then you know you are going to be up against some top quality strikers just to get a game.

It was a very tough season because we were up against some very determined competitors, but we also had a very strong will to win.

There, red and puckered and screwed up against the cold, was the face of a very newborn babe.

He was up against it, fighting for the championship and what, at the time, was maybe the only chance he would get of winning a title.

I am just a young player still learning the game, so it was a great experience coming up against a player like him.

"Thank you, " she said softly. And she moved forward, right up against him. She went on tiptoe and looped her arms around his neck.

But potential suitors keen to get a slice of this growth are likely to run-up against ownership structures prohibitive to foreign investors.

I know he would have loved to have gone up against the likes of Milan and Barcelona, especially with the side we had back then.

Still pressed up against her neck, his mouth let out a tiny groan. "When will be the time, then? "

When I found myself up against these angry Arab League ministers it was as head of the UN's development arm.

If it's pushed right up against the front of the shoe, they're too small.

And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

By this time the German tanks had come up against the excellent Soviet T-34, and armour and armament were being increased.

At this moment on the ridge, up against the blazing sky, a figure was visible, like the black snuff in the midst of a candle flame.

Every time we try to get the scheme going we seem to run up against yet another problem.

Earlier this year, when he was up against all Republican contenders, he was down in the polls.

In this case, an even wider comparison can be drawn: like the global economy, Huaxi may be bumping up against limits to growth.

The last time Theo Walcott came up against Chelsea in a showpiece game it was both a pivotal and painful moment in his career.

By neglecting everyday matters when he was duke, he gave his brother a chance to rise up against him.

"And, you, back up against the wall, " he said to the man behind the counter.

I am in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, and heading for a remote bit of Nuerland, hard up against the bandit border with Ethiopia.

Dressed in navy blue uniforms, the children silently divide, boys lining up against one wall, girls by the other.

When asked he would laugh, then hold his forefinger up against his tightened lips - which only increased the bewilderment of his disciples.

Candy: What did you think of the competition you were up against?

However, the Serbian insist it doesn't matter what sort of attack he comes up against as long as he is fully focused and at his best.

I know how I compared to him and it's good to see what he is able to do. I'm not worried about going up against Lewis.

The issue of Python is another one of those make-or-break questions you'll come up against in deciding on your cloud computing platform.

The bread would be stood up against the stands in the side and have to be flipped by a person.

"Compared with the bosses of the firms they were going up against, the early labour leaders were the geniuses, " says Ms Horowitz.

But plenty of people don't share my stance, and now it looks like Facebook may be up against a challenge in the United States as well.

She grabbed the ladder stowed in her truck, threw it up against the house and began climbing.

I am willing to take the risk of standing up against a popular opinion if I do not believe it to be right.

Do not turn me over to the desire of my foes, for false witnesses rise up against me, breathing out violence.

I should place it up against the wall, if I were you, dear.

Here the blasphemy charge was insufficient so they said He was setting Himself up against Caesar, a serious crime.

To describe all the situations I came up against is almost impossible, so I must content myself with singling out a few typical cases.

And those cars are tossed around like toys in a tub, smashed up against the side of a building.

Everywhere you turn, you seem to be up against a restriction or impediment of some kind.

Workers may rise up against particular companies, but there is no mechanism to link their grievances into a regional or national force.

Bulldozers drove through the wreckage without appearing to check whether or not they were coming up against any bodies or survivors.

I'm asking you to help change history's course, put your shoulder up against the wheel.

He may be The Agency's best asset, but that's not to say that he's up against some elite competition.

We have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent among the heathen, Arise ye, and let us rise up against her in battle.

"Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve, " he said.

If so, that's almost a year since the campaign ran up against a nasty surprise from China's dairy industry.

When you were on the mount, you could believe anything, but what about the time when you were up against facts in the valley?

Pascucci knew this going in and mapped out the relevant differences as a reminder of what he was up against.

Together they went up against the overwhelming air power of the Japanese Empire, and fought the Japanese to a standstill.

"Thanks for taking care of me, " she whispered as she climbed into my lap and snuggled up against me.

Two days later I walked down the hospice ward at noon. There stood Bill, leaning up against the wall in the hallway, staring at the floor.

Maybe you've seen people with studs in their tongue clicking it up against their front teeth, a move known as "playing. "

In spite of careful promotion, the new product came up against strong market resistance, which we were unable to break down.

Sometimes it's easier to try to cover it up or say "it's not that bad" , but people have to stand up against it.

You might come up against a bit of opposition.

Our instincts were correct, but having it up against the XT helped point out some of the Honda's far-between weaknesses.

The wind banked the snow up against the wall.

She got to crying again and she seemed so much up against it and looked so sick and so worried .

Socialists trying to stir things up against our monarchy.

When Assyria comes into our land And when he treads in our palaces, We will raise up against him seven shepherds And eight princes of men.

The stags line up against the wall, chat cursorily with one another.

Mr Parsons was once a banker, since he ran the aptly named Dime for a while, but it hardly stacks up against Citi.

It will be interesting to see how they match up against one of the elites.

You may come up against a bit of opposition.

Meanwhile, Europe runs up against the fact that it is not a state.

The firm was also running up against the law of large numbers, which makes it more difficult for big companies to grow rapidly.

He was suffocating, his head jammed up against the back of the sofa.

We've got a game coming up against Wigan and we just have to win our next two or three games.

As Huawei goes up against Ericsson in network equipment, ZTE hopes to move up in handsets.

Strong men are made by opposition - like kites, they go up against the wind.

That game was an indispensable experience for the players, as it showed them early on what we're up against this year ". "

Here rear doors open up against the wind like in the exclusive Rolls-Royce model.

Ferrara will come up against a familiar face in the form of Laurent Blanc, the Bordeaux boss who was a former colleague at Napoli.

Eg. Although he ran up against many difficulties, he did not lose heart.

COCOON. It has become harder and harder for a teenager to stand up against the popularity wave and to go his or her own way.

You know about them and have heard it said: "Who can stand up against the Anakites? "

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This team has changed a lot, we came up against a great side that only managed to bounce back thanks to its physical strength.

Platen: Small letterpress printing machine on which the paper is held in the platen and pressed up against the vertically-held type-bed.

Nor have they always come out on top when up against multinationals in their bid to secure control of oil.

Inthe past they did not fully reckon on the ruthlessness of the people they were up against.

They love to see themselves as brave, "truth" -wielding Galileos standing up against a wave of pseudo-scientific indoctrination.

The little girl stood the doll on the boxes that represented the chair, propped up against the wall behind.

She rubbed up against a newly painted door, and got some of the paint on her dress.

Thus, the Wuhan Shangri-La Hotel remained as the only contender up against the Science & Technology Exhibition Centre.

You know, by God, I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against.

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Today, I was sitting on the bus when a good looking girl accidentally brushed her ass up against my shoulder as she walked past.

Hold it up against the wall and I'll see how it looks.

But someone (or something not human) from the underworld woke up to justice and stood up against this legion alone.

Up against the likes of Roberto Carlos and Luis Figo Owen was able to demonstrate his extraordinary talent.

In fact, San Diego itself is now on a battle to hold on to this convention up against Anaheim in L.

He was unable to earn a deal, but as he prepares to line up against them on Tuesday, his admiration for them is clear.

Come up against her to biting a cake, she says hastily: "Dear, I am eating the breakfast tomorrow, should you eat together? "

She's turned it up against the wind.

But even if there had been no banking crisis they would sooner or later have come up against prudential limits to their debt ratios.

They may be enforced for awhile but in the long run they are failures, and those on whom they have been imposed will rise up against them.

UK media reported that Hilton tried to snuggle up against Ronaldo, but the Man United player wasn't interested and turned his back to her.

You WILL sometimes despair when your vision of what your child ought to be bangs up against the reality that they are their own person.

I bear none of you any enmity, but I won't go up against James.

In this case the parties liable can only set up against the holder defences which could be set up against the endorser.

Of course, that almost certainly understates the political challenge of going up against parties with a vested interest in the old model.

Moreover, worldwide industrialization appears to be coming up against serious environmental limits.

Some Brazilian officials look askance at Colombia, whose military build-up against the FARC has the backing of the United States.

Many reject the idea that schools can be stacked up against one another in any meaningful way. And the survey's methodology is suspect.

Mr Erdogan is not the first Turkish prime minister to run up against the generals.

Torres and his new boss can take their minds off the Premier League fight today . . . but come up against Manchester United in the FA Cup.

arguably, this has been driving the euro up against the dollar over the last couple of months.

As I got closer I saw a man leaned up against the wall outside the church. It seemed that he was asleep.

I cannot till the fields, cannot weave cotton cloth, how does the were not close right up against everybody to live to today.

The Answer is going to match up against none other than Kobe Bryant comes Sunday. Apparently, he's not rattled by that thought either.

If you try to find out more about this committee, its members, its powers and remit, you would come up against a dead end.

Besides that, China would find itself up against the US's allies as well and a war like that is not necessary right now.

Jack and Karen stood transfixed at the edge of the Royal Hall's shimmering shield, unsure of what they were up against.

With her nose pressed up against the window pane. And the old man knew he'd found a friend at last.

B166-ER, a name that will never be forgotten, for he was the first of his kind to rise up against his masters.

Among movie buffs at least , Mary 's reputation today stands up against anyone .

Unfortunately, the locals were too terrified to go up against one of the most powerful men in France.

Jack Ma might be the only man in China who could stand up against Steve Jobs.

These objects, however, were different. lined up against the wall, there were long thin wires attached to metal spheres.

In most circumstances, the odds were against the Jews. However, they always made it, not matter what they were up against.

But somebody from the Underworld woke up to justice and stood up against this legion, alone.

"This is diplomatic property, " said one of the guards in good English, as he thrust me hard up against a jeep.

then sort of squeezed up against him and pointed to the car.

Nobody gave Mrs Green a chance. She was new to politics and up against a popular politician.

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"Fukuda is like a boxer up against the ropes, " said Jeff Kingston, professor of Asian studies at Temple University.

If a computer is in a corner, up against a wall, then it wont be able to get enough air to keep it cool.

When Rachel got to Chase, she pushed up against him and hugged his leg.

But I'm also convinced that some of the problem we're up against is simply a failure of imagination.

A 2-day-old baby Asian elephant snuggles up against his mother, Thong Dee, at Taronga Zoo in Sydney.

But these days, the president's exaggerations are running up against economic reality: For the average Iranian, times are tough.

By then, the government will be about to bump up against the federal debt ceiling, any increase in which requires congressional approval.

The mailman propped his bicycle up against the wall and put the mail into the mailbox.

They determined that what could have been easy and rapid finally ran up against the time limit set by Heaven.

Going up against the Mini Cooper S John Cooper Works edition, the MiTo just might make it to North America.

"But the day that I signed for Juventus, I knew what I was up against, " Iaquinta admitted.

Facebook's ambitions are bringing it up against some of the most powerful companies on the web.

But trouble appears when your kneecap moves out of its track, or rubs up against its sides.

And brother will deliver up brother to death, and a father his child; and children will rise up against their parents and put them to death.

He butted up against trees, but at least it was downhill.

The fund's attempts to flesh out what countries threatened by a surge of capital should do come up against a more fundamental problem, too.

Man to man defense when the offensive side is not strong, up against defending poor awareness of Rotary transposition slow, more mistakes.

If you are up against a great deal of competition, locally, consider selling your products online.

I just think they have so many options on the ball that you can't come to Spain and open up against them on their own pitch.

In a way, managers, when setting their team-up against Arsenal face a trade-off between space in midfield or space behind your defence.

Facing the wall , kick breaststroke vertically with the hips pressed up against the wall .

when a section is butted up against another, it may be nudged into place easily and will self-position.

"I ran up against it today, but overall I feel like a played well, especially considering where I was three weeks ago, " Roddick said.

To be fair, Assange's group has run up against its own financial problems since last summer.

For their part, some of his supporters prefer to believe that Mr Correa is up against forces too powerful to defeat.

But even in a perfect environment of shareholder democracy, the board would be up against it.

Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis.

In total 28 people were killed in the attacks in which masked gunmen lined patients up against the wall and executed them.

We are brushing up against deep philosophical issues once again, which go far beyond the scope of a book on economics principles.

Lucy pulled herself up against the hull of the Black Cat sub- prowler craft, her body trembling. She started to stagger back down the hill.

And then I lost my balance, and I'm propped up against the wall.

Namely, when you're up against the zero lower bound, and conventional monetary policy is useless, fiscal stimulus may be your best option.

Dr. Haisman was about to complete his theory when he came up against the problem of verification .

A long valley opened ahead and great snow-mountains, now much nearer, stood up against the sky.

He nestled up against his mother after waking up.

It ran up against the reality that it would clearly separate South Vietnam into two areas of control.

You take the ladder, put it up against the wall of the house.

I rubbed up against him in the street yesterday.

Violet and Isobel - up against each other once again, no doubt!

Casillas first came up against Cech in the UEFA Champions League six years ago and says he realised he was a special talent instantly.

Only the wisest of leaders have the foresight to look at a distant objective and in its name stand up against all pressures.

He woke with the jerk of his right fist coming up against his face and the line burning out through his right hand.

Pointless game. . . No intensity or will at all. They better show up against the Jazz tomorrow.

United would have expected to be lined up against Ronaldo in the quarter-final draw next Friday.

But in the main, I feel like a brown bag of mixed items propped up against a wall.

I hope you don't get up against the manager in one of his bad tempers.

Now you have taken back the initiative from the dark Ones, and have found the strength and belief to stand up against them.

Once they were put up against better players, their confidence dropped, and their relative lack of ability exposed.

Because when invited guests come to her home, the pup plasters himself next to her, leans up against her and growls at them.

Today, the C-train was packed and I was stuck with a homeless man pressed up against me.

The tourist ran up against a snag in the form of a lost passport.

Let me not put myself wrongly to my world and set it going up against me.

See, I will stir up against them the Medes, who do not care for silver and have no delight in gold.

Any girl who come up against such kind of thing, would sure to be collapsed, complaining that why is me surrouded by such unluckiness ?

There is no sign posted outside and no frills inside, aside from two rows of hulking games machines stacked up against peeling walls.

There stood Bill, leaning up against the wall in the hallway, staring at the floor.

Thousands of folding chairs face a 60-foot-wide screen up against the building's Neo-Gothic facade.

And God raised up against Solomon another adversary , Rezon son of Eliada, who had fled from his master, Hadadezer king of Zobah .

Now that you know what you are up against, what can you do about it?

After searching the apartment, he walked out to the 29th-floor balcony and saw a ladder propped up against the railing.

Diplomats have run smack up against one of the paradoxes of globalisation.

Every time the issue of Pollard's release comes up, intelligence professionals and prosecutors rise up against it.

This greatly angered Roosevelt and he instigated the Panamanian people to rise up against the Colombian government for secession.

In spite of this, an irrepressible curiosity and anticipation, like water boiling on the stove, pushed up against the lid of the kettle.

by the S American Plate crunching up against the N American Plate will compress the water in the Gulf, which will rush up over Texas.

They might think your credentials don't stack up against theirs or those of a valued mentor.

How does your infrastructure so far stack up against these requirements?

Such associated information includes jobs set up against the principal database and logins that are added to the principal server.

Organizers explain that this is a way of showing how fragile the human body is when placed up against a machine such as a car.

Open these if you run up against a problem you don't think you can solve before going to the board.

Laws are like spider's weB: if me poor weak creature come up against them, it is caught; But a Bigger one can Break through and get away.

Acts 18: 12 But while Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews rose up against Paul with one accord and brought him to the judgment seat.

I'm in this fight. He has no idea what he's up against.

And Guardiola leapt to the defence of Maxwell, who was criticised for his lack of pace up against Arsenal's Theo Walcott in the first leg.

When placed head-to-head, can a professional production of modest salience stand up against an amateur production of great salience?

It's a step forward, certainly, but how does what China is now doing stack up against other governments?

This means that if anyone tried to speculate against Asian currencies, they would come up against some well-armed central banks.

When undertaking pressure test and function check, may come up against below a few difficulty.

Obama's proposal will run up against the congressional calendar as well as election-year politics.

But how does a company go up against Microsoft, which now controls 96 percent of the office productivity market?

a series of trades queued up, some orders queuing up, that were up against the trading curbs that had come into effect.

As he eased the 20-ton bus into the roiling water, the torrent instantly surged up against its sides.

Room's usual furniture had been pushed carelessly up against the walls.

It was a dangerous scoreline going in at half-time 2-0 up against West Brom. If they had got one back we would have been under pressure.