Sentences with phrase «up against the barrier»

When he finally tried a move at Portier it went horribly wrong, leaving the Sauber propped up against the barriers and putting Button out of his final race.

Ferrets have been known to pile things up against a barrier to get over it.

Many species will come up against these barriers and become extinct.

But three recent studies confirm that no matter how hard women try, they come up against barriers that for most women remain insurmountable.

As Lakehead University's first round of law grads hit the job market this year, it seems they're coming up against some barriers... [more]

Successful people look for new solutions when up against a barrier.

Finally, the Commission believes that these agreements require review mechanisms that provide the flexibility to revisit components of the agreements that on implementation have come up against barriers.

Not exact matches

What I tried to do was come up with common characters we face at work — like the «manterrupter» who interrupts you in a meeting, or the office mom who ends up taking on the mother lode of menial tasks — as well as some of the internal barriers, like the feeling of being an imposter, and then digging through the research to find out how you can push back against these things.

But it seemed to elude this earnest man that polygamy does not happen to be an issue in his state precisely because the law, for many years, has cast up serious barriers against the practice.

But when married couples use contraception, divorces are common even among Christians, and premarital sex is not the grave taboo it once was, where is the rationale for keeping up a barrier against same - sex relations, other than misplaced fear and xenophobic revulsion?

The woman told us she had a front - row spot, right up against the metal barrier by the road.

In a pillarized society, the distinct subcultures became adept at erecting and maintaining barriers against the other subcultures, yet the consociational arrangements they come up with have tended to be short - lived.

[3] Because he was immune from sin, we might think that there would be a barrier set up against the horror of evil, but for him there were no human distractions.

All grades combine high, adjustable shrinkage from zero up to 60 percent and a very high barrier against oxygen and moisture with outstanding transparency, high gloss and — despite the comparatively low thickness — very high tear strength and puncture resistance.

That film of fat is what acts as a barrier against rust and decay, so lube up.

Brambilla, a practitioner of the collisionist's art, ended up against the worn - tire barrier, while Reutemann made it down the car - eating Linden Avenue drop, only to choke out shortly beyond.

But beyond that possibility someone has to stand up to all the barriers against them and demand the necessary changes get made.

Olshansky even wondered whether those would be enough, or whether we're «running up against a formidable barrier.»

It's worth considering what a human chimera might look like, but any such experiment would, of course, run up against ethical barriers.

Ripping a page from the Star Trek script, specialized cells of the barrier that lines the inside of the intestines and airways of humans have invoked a biological version of Captain Kirk's famous command «shields up» as a first defense against invading microbes.

When some of his scientific papers found their way into Western journals, he began to receive invitations to speak abroad, but came hard up against the Soviet barriers to travel.

«Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built up against it.»

Ideally the grains need all round contact but if they are rubbing up against each other the curds can form an impenetrable barrier so they end up starving.

«Singles need to be careful and not just go after what they think is their «type», setting up emotional barriers against anyone that doesn't fit their wishlist.

But far more insidious — and something the movie bleeds more tart humor from — are the class barriers that Harding constantly runs up against in the figure skating community.

What he was up against was much more than overcoming language and cultural barriers, however.

Knowing what it's like to be up against some incredible odds, it made me realize most barriers are just challenges that are not insurmountable if there's a will to rise above.

The views around the island are completely unobstructed, with a close - up of the waves crashing against the Barrier Reef.

In the beginning it can almost feel like the game is actively fighting against you, putting up barriers to your enjoyment of it through lack of communication alone, and I fear it acts as its own unintentional gatekeeper against players who might otherwise become fans.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

It's not easy though and the controls are a little counter-intuitive, so probably don't expect to knock it out of the park immediately, Sonic has a very straight turning angle which is a little bit off, and you're against the clock with rings only boosting up your time, still, run into a barrier and you lose your rings, which means you lose your time.

In another moment present in its playable demo, you could pick up your main character's violin and use it to play songs in order to create a barrier to defend yourself against enemies (like Zelda «s ocarina sections, but a lot more complex, and in real time).

There's a healing one for topping up the health of you and your teammates, and a shield Thorn allows you to create barriers, particularly useful for defending against ranged attacks.

The only issue that crops up during combat is when you start against the barrier which comes up during combat while the enemy is relentlessly attacking you.

At Sotheby's on Friday, those prices were left behind as two works bumped up against the seven - figure barrier in quick succession.

But of course these reviews of climate science butt up against a similarly robust body of psychological and sociological work showing how hard it is for information, even reliable authoritative information, to break through the barriers within the human mind (not to mention our polarized politics) that can impede rational risk management.

The issue of inter-generational empathy on climate risk butts up against even tougher barriers, the ones that make this a truly «super wicked» problem.

But the Bank has run up against a determined international resistance to its most controversial project to date — a pair of coal mega mine and export terminals that would ship millions of tons of coal through the Great Barrier Reef near Australia.

«On accessibility, we really saw it as something that is part of this outward focus of the law school, to really ensure we're getting our financial barriers reduced to the extent we can, for ensuring our communities are inclusive, [that] no one's pressed up against the window looking in on a great legal education if they want one and are eligible for one,» says Sossin.

Touch up cracked or peeling paint to beautify your home and create a barrier against insects and weather.

Bitcoin has already smashed up against some serious barriers on the road to becoming recognized as less of a store of value and more of a «currency.»

It will of course depend on how big a reform agenda Labor wants to develop and which of the competing vested interests it will need or want to take on to really address structural barriers — doctors, hospitals, states, the pharmaceutical industry, the private health sector — and whether it's up to a fight against the food and alcohol industries and «nanny state» critics on prevention.

He said he'd been told that building code mandated that the vapor barrier be up against the floor over the crawl space, but the 2 - year - old solid oak flooring was beginning to curl because of moisture.