Sentences with phrase «up against the rock»

From time to time, principals come up against a rock: a negative person who just won't budge and who is a true thorn in everyone's side.

The property is spread over 32,000 square feet land and built right up against a rock.

The views Uluwatu Temple from the bottom of the water surging up against rocks and the ocean horizon are remarkable.

It is the kind of place where you can just sit, perfectly content, listening to the waves and watching the blue water foam up against the rock.

Up against the rock wall in the center of the island is a Stone Head.

It foregrounds the histories onto which each artist is tethered on the sojourn, individually and together: years of water washing up against rock, again and again; a strand of hair crushed into diamond; a formative experience forgotten, then remembered; a view seen everyday, seen anew.

Not exact matches

Dressing up as your favorite rock star is great on Halloween, but I'd advise against it every day of the week.

The first people to walk the moon required a shield against fine regolith (dust as sharp as glass); protection from wild temperature swings from sun to shade; the flexibility to install gear and pick up moon rocks; and the ability to last for hours away from a spacecraft.

Mayweather has been rocking sports headlines with his much - anticipated bout against Manny «Pacman» Pacquiao coming up on May 2nd, expected to be the richest fight in history.

So here we have a big, lumbering guy weighed down with armor, who can't see much more than a few feet in front of his face, up against a kid running at him with a devastating weapon and a rock traveling with the stopping power of a.45 caliber handgun.

Christ step up the Catholic Church when he said in Matthew 16 «Thou art Peter (which means «rock» in aramaic) and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it».

Here's the «CliffsNotes» summary: The «Watchers» helped mankind with technology; humans abused it for evil; God cursed the angels for this and turned them into rock giants; these fallen angels help Noah build and defend the ark; when they die in the battle against the bad guys, the mysterious beings go up to heaven.

@hebgb - i guess you are exactly right and America has NEVER had crimes committed against women, children, elderly, special needs nor have any «red blooded» americans ever blown up their own people... come out from the rock you live under and get some fresh air of reality.

I've read tales of Spanish Conquistodoros in the 16th century killing Indian babies by taking them by the heels and bashing their brains out against rocks after they were baptized by priests, so that they might enter heaven, to ensure that they wouldn't grow up to become heathen adults.

But their real grievance against him was that he was rocking the boat — «stirring up the people,» as they put it — challenging the status quo.

«Laney woke up from bed one night in May 2003 and took Joshua to the yard of her home in New Chapel Hill, Texas where she lifted a huge rock over her head and brought it down with all her strength against his skull, killing him.

It was a frustrating night all round for the three lions who came up against a resolute Slovakia and in particular a defensive rock in Marten Skrtel and a keeper who had one of those nights.

Sometimes you are a horrible match up against the team you are facing in this single - elimination rock - paper - scissors game of playoff football.

Arsenal were the better team for most of this away tie but it just would not quite click up front, while yet another in a season full of dodgy penalty decisions going against us meant that the Germans were able to score the opener and then hold on valiantly for what is a huge result for the team rock bottom of the Bundesliga.

The protesters held up signs against Kid Rock and Donald Trump and chanted, «This is what democracy looks like.»

Nobody gets your hopes up before dashing them against the rocks like the Chargers.

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Daly, who exploded onto the golf scene by winning the PGA Championship in 1991 and whose booming game made him immensely popular with fans and the media, was arrested for assault on Dec. 23 for allegedly throwing his wife, Bettye, against a wall during a rampage in which he also tore up the couple's house in Castle Rock, Colo..

Team News Arsenal have been rocked by the news that Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Debuchy are to be sidelined for three months, with the latter picking up a dislocated shoulder during last weekend's victory against Stoke City.

Now, he rocks up at West Ham as fans continue to protest against an ownership that has done nothing to reinforce a squad in desperate need of youth and vigour.

City wrap up their tour at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, on July 28 against Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.

Should you drift off to sleep sitting up rocking them, you know they are secure against you!

Cradleboards were used during periods when the infant's mother had to travel or otherwise be mobile for work... The cradleboard could be carried on the mother's back... The cradleboard can also be stood up against a large tree or rock if the infant is small, or hung from a pole (as inside an Iroquois longhouse), or even hung from a sturdy tree branch...

Britain's efforts to open up new markets for trade in South America were rocked by the Julian Assange case yesterday, after a meeting of regional foreign ministers united against «threats» from the UK.

New Yorkers throughout the five boroughs were rocked by the news that Councilman Johnson himself was swept up in a «broken windows» sweep, but were relieved by news that he has initiated a formal complaint against his persecutors.

The timing was wrong for The Clash, as they were breaking themselves up at the time, but they never really engaged in the miners» strike.Apart from Rock Against Racism, they never really engaged in politics at all.

When I got to the cave I found Bill backed up against the side of it, breathing hard, and the boy threatening to smash him with a rock half as big as a cocoanut.

«When I was doing those TV debates it sometimes felt like I was up against a quasi-religious rock concert, where no matter what truth you told it didn't really matter in a post-truth type of argument in the politics.»

Activist James Shaddock, who set up the Rock the Boat campaign against sexual harrassment in the party, said trying to find high - profile speakers for the fringe meeting had been like «pulling teeth».

When any two plates grind against each and get stuck, enormous stress builds up until the rocks fracture and the fault rips apart in a giant earthquake.

The earth's crust is made up of eight large tectonic plates that have been moving and grinding against each other for millions of years, and the largest — the Pacific Plate — dips under the slab of rock underneath Japan's main island, Honshu.

If a second rock is thrown into the water, the new set of waves either bumps up against the first set and changes its pattern, or it joins together with the first set, making larger, more powerful waves.

Iron and sulfides could get into the water from rocks ground up when the glacial ice rubs against the bedrock of the continent.

As the forces fight against each other, the pressure will open up paths where hot, ductile, and partially molten rock underneath can find its way into the upper crust.

Thompson, a former concert pianist who took up running in her 70s, had a few things working against her when she lined up at the starting point of San Diego's Rock»N Roll Marathon this past Sunday.

You don't give up, but you also don't push harder against rock walls.

In the aftermath of the movie's first Cannes screening, many journalists made the obvious comparison with «Footloose,» in which teen rock lover Kevin Bacon runs up against buttoned - up priest John Lithgow.

Castle Rock is an original suspense / thriller — a first - of - its - kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.»

And Margot Robbie has revealed she's been rocked to the core by the testimonies from women - and men - against the likes of Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and James Franco, which have spawned the #MeToo and Time's Up movement anti-sexual harassment movements.

From Stephen King and Executive Producer J.J. Abrams, Castle Rock is an original suspense / thriller — a first - of - its - kind reimagining that explores the themes and worlds uniting the entire King canon, while brushing up against some of his most iconic and beloved stories.

Before long, the Rangers end up in another battle, this time against a purple giant robot and a giant rock - guy from an old Fruity Pebbles commercial.

With the group having to not only contend with the horrors of the pursuing, savage Sam, but also the dangers of the remote environment; lack of water, dangerous rocks, and venemous rattlesnkes etc, they are certainly up against it.

All Hiccup wants is to please his warrior father, Stoick the Vast (who sums up the macho Viking philosophy nicely: «When I was a kid, my dad told me to bang my head against a rock — and I did it»).

Nuances like being able to play the ocarina during loading screens, the soundtrack that takes a familiar catalog and gives it a little of the rock and roll flavor that one usually hears in a Dynasty Warriors title, or the fact that you can find yourself up against an army of cuccos if you hit one in a mission all help blend the two series together into its own new thing.

The Rock gets some back - up against the mutated monsters of Rampage in the form of an Oscar nominated actress.