Sentence examples for stage up against from inspiring English sources

The organizers originally wanted Benedict to speak on a stage up against the barrier, but they moved the speech to the school after Israel protested.

They had been working to the side of the main stage, up against the Rocky Mountains, quietly winning every game in their forgotten time zone and most of their games elsewhere.

Meanwhile, waving and smiling, Clinton cuts an eerily isolated figure on her little stage, up against the wall, separated from the selfie-shooters by a railing, like a Francis Bacon Pope in his glass booth.

Women have been able to access the political stage to speak up against those stupid things that men were saying.

As in the art and film worlds, which the stage sometimes brushes up against but never entirely submits to — Thalia and Melpomene are pretty haughty girls — much of the business of making theatre is social.

As in the art and film worlds, which the stage sometimes brushes up against but never entirely submits to — Thalia… The hero of "Drive" (Ryan Gosling) is unnamed, from start to finish.

A throng of young Liberians have gathered at one of the year's biggest parties and most revellers are celebrating the growing popularity of Hip Co, a musical movement in the long-troubled West African country.The beach stage is propped up against a skeletal building, a memory of more than a decade of civil war.

Elliott took his place on the stage, his toes right up against the edge.

Peter Coles, its business development director,says: 'We're at a stage where organisations are coming up against worse trading than expected.

Most were general admission, in open fields, which meant that I could get there early to insure a spot right up against the stage (I was often the first, and sometimes only, person in line when the gates opened).

When she came down from the stage to greet people mashed up against a barricade, it was the young women who reached out to touch her (and, in at least two cases, to offer Coachella-standard floral headbands, which Del Rey gamely donned).