| They had their sights fixed firmly on a Connacht title, but they came up against a Mary's outfit that were more determined on the day. |
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| So he paired them together once again in the foursomes in which they came up against Darren Clarke and Lee Westwood. |
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| Rossendale came up against a team not only top of the league but also a side playing with bags of confidence. |
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| Both teams came up against very strong opposition but both teams held their own and played some very good football. |
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| In Hassan, though, he came up against a formidable opponent and a smart street fighter. |
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| When the gear was retracted, the axles came up against pillow blocks built into the nacelle structure. |
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| Heading towards Eling Hill and the toll bridge, next to the tide mill, I came up against the first of the traffic. |
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| If he played on the right he came up against notorious hard man Tommy Banks. |
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| In my previous career as a social worker, I came up against this issue many times. |
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| Butter lamps were brought, and we entered a small corridor, which was pitch-dark, about ten paces and we came up against a blank wall. |
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| On this point, we came up against the stonewalling of the United States and the developing countries. |
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| It left nothing whatever that it came up against, but reduced it to ruin and rottenness. |
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| During the swim I came up against a challenge at every turn. |
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| But in the middle of the twentieth century their prescriptivist assumptions came up against violent opposition, at least in the academic world. |
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| There they came up against an East Germany side who had breezed through Group 3 with three wins and a draw against Turkey and Austria. |
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| We have all experienced anger when we were little, when we came up against the first annoyances that life throws our way. |
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| In the semi-finals, Mwenga came up against a heavily supported Indian wrestler Rajender Kumar. |
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| Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries. |
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| He couldn't quite grab the vital winning goal as they came up against Lady Luck with her awkward head on, a stubborn defence and a goalkeeper in top form. |
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| The European Union was right to try and do something, even though it came up against a brick wall. |
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| However, these efforts aimed at favouring continuity in the transition came up against the realities of administrative slowness. |
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| When carrying out projects between Regions, one quickly came up against the need to work across national borders. |
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| These men suddenly came up against the two Canadian militia companies, who immediately fired a salvo at them and charged the American column. |
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| In the women's sprint event, Monique Sullivan, in the last of the four quarter-finals, came up against Emily Rosemond of Australia. |
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| This was one area in which the hierarchical structure of the government came up against the horizontal nature of the Sector. |
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| But the granting of national aid came up against its limits where the Community had an overriding interest. |
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| The NCDP soon came up against a huge problem that prompted it to propose a major streamlining of administrative procedures dictated by law. |
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| It was clear sailing for Comcast in Central Massachusetts until it came up against the Worcester City Council. |
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| But the report came up against one difficulty. |
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| Federer came up against him in the quarter-finals. |
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| Mr. Buchanan occasionally came up against MSNBC's boundaries. |
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| Sometimes opposition parties ó especially those boycotting the elections ó came up against administrative obstacles raised by the local authorities, preventing them from holding demonstrations in the appropriate venues. |
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| But as from 1999, the collaboration came up against major administrative difficulties which obliged us to suspend all practical activities for the 20002001 biennium. |
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| Meaning there was a seven-year gap before the release of Djitoumou. The latest project was delayed because his producer came up against problems, but the singer seems barely perturbed by the long wait. |
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| So, for example, the negotiations on the 2000-2006 rural development programmes came up against a barrier when it came to defining the notion of environmentally-friendly practices. |
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| We just wanted to, maybe, work out some kind of solution, because we were in a bit of a state of change, and you know, we just came up against a brick wall. |
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| Here he went along the coast to Bering Strait, but soon came up against a veritable wall of ice, which caused him to turn back without having found the entrance to the Northwest Passage. |
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| Yet, like them, you soon came up against the hard knocks of reality. |
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| Finally, the authors consider what legal avenues can be pursued and what outcomes are conceivable in the instance where the right of an investor came up against the obligation of a State to fulfil a human rights obligation. |
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| However, the implementation of the agreement came up against serious difficulties linked to lack of confidence between the central authorities and that of the Island of Anjouan. |
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| Where witnesses were initially forced to be silent by the government in power, once liberated from their enforced muteness after 1989 they came up against the deliberate deafness of the Georgians. |
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| The investigators came up against a brick wall in their search for the missing money when they discovered it had been transferred overseas. |
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| But they came up against an impressive force in Bayern, who extended their run to 10 wins on the trot, having scored 28 goals in the process and conceding none. |
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| The one time league leaders can point to poor away form as a reason their challenge has waned in recent weeks, but they also came up against a vastly improved Newry side. |
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| Wales struggled to do this, they failed to plough forward and do the hard yards, and when they moved it wide they came up against a solid whitewall. |
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| Sydney accounting firm Lomax Financial Group stopped casual Friday for its 50 staff after it came up against a number of problems, the Herald Sun reported. |
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