Sentence examples for encountering a wall from inspiring English sources

A 60-officer force had been working on the case and reporting that they were encountering a "wall of silence" in the community, a poor one with the third-highest neighborhood crime rate in London.

On a recent visit to Wellington, I had the misfortune of encountering a wall mural bearing the slogan 'We did not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrowed it from our children.' Damned if I didn't almost drop my cancer stick and punch the nearest organic grocer.

On arriving here, freed blacks encountered a wall of racism.

He later admits that he hasn't encountered a "wall of love" at the summit.

In the workplace, as one pundit put it, employees react differently when they encounter a wall.

The Giants' power running back has encountered a wall he no longer wishes to consistently run through.

In the early postwar years, when Benjamin Britten gave the house two masterpieces, "Billy Budd" and "Gloriana," he encountered a wall of indifference, and took his genius elsewhere.

You encounter a wall of black-and-white studio head shots, which introduces a section devoted to makeup, acting and set design.

If you encounter a wall made with little stones shoring up the big ones, she noted, "you can tell that's a lazy person who didn't want to take the time and trouble to fit two big stones together".

Mr Cameron admitted that he had not encountered a "wall of love" during the summit, which formally concentrated on the EU's relationship with former Soviet states such as Ukraine.

The Obama administration's plan to limit emissions of mercury and other hazardous pollutants from coal- and oil-fired power plants encountered a wall of skepticism from the Supreme Court's most conservative justices Wednesday.