Sentence examples for up against a problem from inspiring English sources

"You come up against a problem, they offer solutions".

The liberal urge to understand, explain, improve and cure ran up against a problem that did not exist in 1981: there just was no unified cause.

But when tech talent moves they come up against a problem: Language.

Gillon (1991) is an attempt to show that Dharmakīrti's philosophy, in attempting to do that, ran up against a problem of induction that wouldn't go away.

When we originally engineered GCC to have teams of seven, it was because we came up against a problem.

They tend to be optimistic and logical when they run up against a problem that challenges them.

"He is up against a double problem.

Most of the other efforts have run up against a common problem: For all the traditional touches, they are still automobile-dependent.

Here, as in other villages, officials overseeing the evacuation came up against a confounding problem: the villagers understood that a cyclone was coming, but they didn't think it would be bad enough to leave their homes and cattle behind.

While it certainly makes sense to build more, that explanation comes up against a sizeable problem; if there is a shortage of housing, why haven't rents risen more?

BOSTON — As if all the double-parked moving vans, anxious parents and mountains of discarded furniture and trash are not enough to fray nerves on the day when thousands of college students move into their apartments here, city officials on Wednesday were up against a tiny problem that poses a huge threat.