come up against
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To meet a problem or a difficult person that is blocking your way.
"The researchers came up against several ethical obstacles when designing their study."
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have constantly come up against two roadblocks,

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the Crusaders come up against kotob aldine's

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come up against that stimuli again in the future,

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it has come up against some uh teething problems.

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likely to come up against resistance from the state,