What is "against time"

Usage examples of "against time".

At first look, Leaphorn thought that Houk, like the pink sandstone of his house, had been proof against time.

Another race against time, but he grudgingly admitted Corsi got further with a little strong-arming than two hours of trading, no matter how profitable.

It wasn't a matter of security, exactly, for he knew the things could not protect him from harm, but there was the sense that their stability through time provided for him a defense against time, a language with which he could have a conversation with time.

The one thing he was sure of during the next two crowded days was that they were indeed working under pressure and against time.

They were very definitely working against time now -- perhaps against hours, even minutes.

With some fallen leaves to act as kindling, and a spark from a stone beaten against Time-Car metal, I was able to ignite a flame readily enough.

Maybe this was because the well of mathematical genius traditionally dries up at around that age, a prospect that must have terrified Taine, so that he thought he was working against time.

These two children of Ender's mind, together with his adopted children from Lusitania, are racing against time to discover new worlds, to influence the Starways Congress to recall the fleet, and to save Jane by finding a home for her disembodied intelligence once the Human Network is closed off to her.

Now, besides very many babies just able to walk, there happened to be in Coketown a considerable population of babies who had been walking against time towards the infinite world, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty years and more.

This struck from all three allusions to Edgar Poe and Jules Verne, and such platitudes as naturally rise to the lips of the most intelligent when they are talking against time, and dealing with a new invention in which it would seem ingenuous to believe too soon.