run up against in a sentence

Examples

1. Republican outreach runs up against a Latino tendency to vote Democratic in national elections.
2. Analyst Josef Alpher said Netanyahu had run up against Israel's defense establishment and lost.
3. Hades is preparing to take over all creation when he runs up against Hercules.
4. Still, other venture capitalists said the fund was likely to run up against Microsoft.
5. Chances are, you'll run up against a bunch of dead-ends.
6. This is just one of the snags that the Dayton agreement has run up against.
7. Iraqis, such plans may run up against the military.
8. "We can't let it run up against the conventions,"
9. But such arguments often run up against domestic politics.
10. But critics say that when environmental goals run up against corporate interests, Pataki goes soft.