Sentence examples for Time is against us from inspiring English sources

Idiom

For the time being.

For the time being indicates that an action or state will continue into the future, but is temporary.

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"But time is against us now.

We have a chance to do this now, but time is against us.

"We are appalling in the throws and the women's jumps," he said at the time, "but we knew that and we're not going to surprise the world in the next few weeks in these events … In certain events, we cannot improve before 2012 because time is against us, but long term certainly".

Because of the vast sums of money buying up our politics, those checks and balances are fast disappearing and time is against us.

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"We had initial discussions with Frank Warren Promotions earlier this year but time was against us.

The device works because it reminds us that time is against the child, who is indeed special; a doctor has told Richard that he'll be in a wheelchair by the time he's thirty, and we're aware of the passing years and all the action — working on a scallop boat in the Outer Banks, editing a military newspaper, chasing Tom Waits on Esquire's dime — that he's trying to cram in before that happens.

But time is against him.

But he knows time is against him.

The march of time is against them.

Time is against me.

But time is against them.

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