run up against

Republicans have already run up against the first harsh realities of this change.

His masses of troops had also run up against seemingly unbreakable defenses.

As happy as he and his wife are to be living in Paris, they run up against a predictable array of everyday bureaucratic troubles.

Delve deeper and you run up against the social profanity that was lynching.

But the belief in ascent on the basis of merit alone began to run up against new realities.

There won't be a day, inside or out of it, that I won't run up against every damnable meanness that human nature is capable of.

It's clever, and it's powerful, whatever we've run up against.

I next heard of Boyd at Singapore; but I was to run up against him later.

But here again we run up against the problem of the subconsciousness, with its infinite mass of "forgotten" knowledge.

Oh, yes; the fancy guys would run up against a long horn every time they made a break.