What is "ran up against"

Usage examples of "ran up against".

Rikki-tikki was too well bred to bite or scratch, but as soon as Teddy was asleep he went off for his nightly walk round the house, and in the dark he ran up against Chuchundra, the musk-rat, creeping round by the wall.

For that matter, things would have been a little simpler if the Marine expeditionary regiment was all-male, but that ran up against the same objection—.

No, if I ran up against a demon now, my house was made of glass, and nothing throws stones like the demonic.

As he went out, Svidrigailov ran up against Razumihin in the doorway.

Her words ran up against the memories of all those jobs she'd lost when she fell apart in the year after Joe and the boys were taken.

There were a lot of gaps, where the lexicon ran up against specialized military acronyms in the readout I’.

I hit some hot spots and ran up against the Red Revolt in retreat.

Decency and duty and common sense were all very well until you ran up against that steel bulkhead.

Naturally Denis ran up against a good many of these, and saw a good deal of their life.

On all other trips the boys ran up against the same problem: what to use for money.

Whenever I ran up against a contrast between the old and the new it gave me something like an electrical jolt.

From the point of view of black holes, though, the Planck mass, being equal to that of an average grain of dust, is quite tiny) And so, physicists who speculated that tiny black holes and elementary particles might be closely related immediately ran up against the incompatibility between general relativity—.