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• Any effort to expand stop-and-frisk will run up against this oversight.
  — Seth Barron, WSJ, 17 Dec. 2021
• His attempt to open a new version has run up against next-door condo owners and their loud complaints.
  — Fifth & Mission Podcast, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Feb. 2023
• Biden is also expected to appear in a two-minute TV ad that will run up against Trump's address.
  — Haley Victory Smith, Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2020
• Many seek redress in court and run up against numerous hurdles.
  — al, 15 Oct. 2020
• Some of the shots are stunning, where lava flows have run up against and overtaken the walls and snapped utility posts in the settlements within the caldera.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 16 Dec. 2014
• If subscriber growth continues to stagnate, implying that the streaming space has run up against a wall, that will be of concern.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Apr. 2022
• Trump has recently run up against the bounds of what social media companies will allow on their sites.
  — Rachel Lerman, Washington Post, 29 June 2020
• The question of whether their moderation policies will run up against new state laws isn't the only conundrum tech platforms are confronting in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
  — Clare Duffy, CNN, 29 June 2022
• The still-unknown potential of an ephemeral new technology has run up against the power of the state, and neither quite understands how the other works.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 3 Oct. 2022
• Protesters run up against barricades in Bogotá on April 28.
  — Time, 7 May 2021
• Lyon, France’s seventh-place team, had run up against a juggernaut from Germany in the Champions League semifinal.
  — Joshua Robinson, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2020
• This could easily be an area where Biden's commitments run up against what López Obrador considers matters of national sovereignty.
  — Nathaniel Parish Flannery, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
• Officials trying to bring education to St. Martinville have run up against staffing challenges in a tight labor market, Stagg said.
  — Annie Waldman, ProPublica, 10 Mar. 2022
• For many people, the ambitions shorthanded in the term American dream have run up against sickness, lockdowns, and unemployment.
  — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 19 June 2020
• Herring had run up against the latter, which had triggered an automatic response in his drone to race in the opposite direction, depleting its battery.
  — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 26 Dec. 2022
• But such ambitious diplomacy would require a lot of time and would certainly run up against the political clocks counting down in the Middle East, regional experts say.
  — Howard Lafranchi, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2020
• Trying to protect the nascent domestic clean energy industry, however, could run up against international trade rules that the U.S. has had a heavy hand in crafting.
  — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 23 Aug. 2022
• Governments would need to agree how to pay for and manage any long-distance electric lines or new connections between their current grids—complex topics that run up against vested interests.
  — Phred Dvorak, WSJ, 7 Mar. 2022
• And, state and local election officials say those following the president’s advice would run up against numerous safeguards.
  — Lisa Donovan, chicagotribune.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• Any attempt at society-wide corporate reform will run up against the fact that markets compel corporations to behave in ways that are harmful to society.
  — Meagan Day, The New Republic, 27 Jan. 2023
• Gao had also run up against a cover-up by authorities in Wuhan, health and national security officials said.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 16 Oct. 2020
• As social safety continues to run up against the billions in revenue commanded by social media firms, even international lawmakers won’t be able to offer users in the US much help.
  — Jordan Lebeau, Quartz, 16 May 2021
• But Doocy’s pro-vaccine encouragement has run up against his longtime co-host Brian Kilmeade, who has bristled at the push to encourage Americans to get vaccinated, even as cases have spiked in recent days because of the delta variant of the virus.
  — Washington Post, 20 July 2021
• But even as cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are rising, efforts to get some people vaccinated have run up against stubborn resistance.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Aug. 2021
• Restaurants, hotels and other discretionary services aren’t the only places where persistent demand could run up against limited supply, Mr. Furman argued.
  — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2022
• The internet has long been seen as a refuge for untrammeled expression, but as large social media platforms have come to dominate the web, that ideal has run up against concerns about extremism, misinformation and user safety.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2021
• In Taiwan, though, a similar instinct has run up against strict gun control laws and a complicated history between its people and military, dating back to the days of martial law under the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2022
• Since its creation in 2001, Wikipedia’s founding promise—to create an encyclopedia that could be edited by anyone and everyone, a living document of world culture—has always run up against a countervailing current of elitism.
  — Benjamin Wofford, Wired, 2 Nov. 2020
• The solutions offered are ineffective, or target one kind of gun crime when meant for another, or run up against fundamental realities of American culture.
  — Barry Latzer, National Review, 22 Mar. 2022
• Often, legislative efforts to close the clergy loophole run up against lawmakers who are also church members, as well as intimidation from advocacy groups aligned with various religions.
  — Jason Dearen and Michael Rezendes, The Arizona Republic, 29 Sep. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024