Sentences with phrase «series back against the wall»

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So taking angel money from a traditional venture investor is a bet on that firm funding your Series A. Unfortunately, if that doesn't work out, you're back is up against the wall.

Toronto struggled throughout the series, and with its back against the wall in Game 4, the team completely collapsed.

It's in this greyed - out, apocalyptic scenario that Bryan Singer's film lays out its basic plot line: with their backs against the wall in the present tense, the X-Men (or what's left of them following a series of Sentinel raids) opt to send Wolverine (Hugh Jackman)-- or at least his consciousness — back in time 50 years so that his younger self can try to alter this chronology — a scheme that nods to H.G. Wells and Harlan Ellison (as well as the X-Men comics series).

Granted, this series isn't the most hard - charging action spectacle around, but the wizards do remarkable damage with their backs against the wall, like an asthmatic kid stepping up to the plate and hitting a home run.

The exhibition begins with a door numbered 1703 propped against the gallery wall in the foyer and ends, via a series of the artist video works, in the back room of the gallery.