Sentence examples for run head on from inspiring English sources

A common characteristic of politicians in search of votes — a propensity to puffery — has run head on into an aggressive new culture that subjects them to 24-hour flyspecking by opponents, bloggers, the mainstream media and regular citizens.

Because the E.C.C.C. and its many boosters promised things that no trial could deliver and oversold the therapeutic benefits of war crimes trials, they have run head on into the limits of the possible.

It had run head on into a heavy light pole, and sat with its front end crushed in only a few yards from where the boys had been hit.

However Britons may feel over latest twist the problem has taken, it is obvious to them that really appalling danger is possibility that U.S. & Great Britain will run head on into each other.

Obama is soon to hit the south and run head on into what remains of the Nixon southern strategy, steeped in an appeal to young white men with race always looming just under the surface.

Classes I & II are easily negotiable; Classes III (" small falls, numerous rapids") and IV ("high irregular waves with boulders directly in current, difficult broken water, eddies and abrupt bends") demand experience and skill Class V has long rocky rapids with difficult and completely irregular broken water which must be run head on".

Sutcliffe was not afraid to run head-on against conventional judgments: "Londoners love St Pancras, but it has one weakness: it is an extremely ugly building".

"I'm not going to ask guys to run head-on into a pickup truck," Westhoff said.

In doing so, it has at times run head-on into unions, protesting at construction sites to demand jobs.

Producers' justified rise in self-confidence nudges their prices skyward, but they may run head-on into the ultimate reality check: national market resistance.

Pussy Riot is the flash point where logic and law run head-on into the old-school Russian "nadryv" — a kind of plaintive hysteria that grips the culture every so often.