Sentence examples for work up against from inspiring English sources

So it distresses me to see how anxious our technocrats are to piss all this good work up against the wall.

"Going in, I said, 'Maybe I just thought a lot of myself when I was in the program,' " he adds, laughing, "but I would absolutely put their work up against the work of agencies I've worked with".

I'm always working up against time.

I have taken the risk of putting my own works up against a selection of already very potent objects.

"It appears by mid- to later in the week, we'll be gone, so that's the time constraints that you're working up against," said Senator Joseph A. Griffo, a Republican from Rome, who opposes same-sex marriage.

WASHINGTON, D.C. Sometimes, it doesn't pay to get the immune system all worked up against an infection.

Many students are profoundly spooked by working up against a hard deadline - in which case, diligently practising essays or problems under time constraints, perhaps with a parent or friend acting as invigilator, would help dramatically.

That said, the men are such complete goofs that it is hard for us to work up any animus against them beyond a wild roll of the eyes – and laughter.

In the case of the Country Club, the owners of neighboring Markey's Bar used the rape case as an occasion to work up a petition against the pool.

From time to time, Hollywood used to work up considerable puerile resentment against "outsiders" who dared to make movies.

It's hard to work up emotional energy to protest against the systematic existence of bad incentives.