What is "run up against"

Usage examples of "run up against".

And 1 did not want to sound like a big baby, like someone who'd just run up against an annoying problem she didn't feel like handling.

I don't like the thing you've run up against - the story or the pictures.

Now I'll run up against her in some other case and in all probability she'll put a crossbow bolt into my belly.

Sooner or later you'll run up against reality as it actually is: and since you can't back downin your own way you're as stiffnecked as I am, or Squonk was, in his own fashionyou'll go right on refusing to believe.

Sooner or later you'll run up against reality as it actually is: and since you can't back down-in your own way you're as stiff-necked as I am, or Squonk was, in his own fashion-you'll go right on refusing to believe.

The West Weald and Border Weald run up against the Broken Bone hradani.

He's certainly got the experience to handle whatever Antonina will run up against in Alexandria.

Your fancy dueling-master won't have taught you a single thing that will work in a fight against these bastards, and what you don't know will get you killed the first time you run up against one.

He had run up against this with Orlene, but that had been a special case.

However, we then run up against the problem that Hevea seeds have a very short period of viability.