In all events, athletes compete against the clock, skiing a prescribed course requiring turns through pre-positioned gates.
As in all its wars, Israel feels it is fighting against the clock.
Imagine your standard cubicle inhabitants, tasked with hacking the future against the clock.
Hesjedal kept close enough to Rodriguez to lay the foundations for his triumphant finale as the stronger rider against the clock.
Alas, JC Penney simply is in a race against the clock.
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But now, he is racing against the clock to salvage what he can before the floodwaters start to swell and creep out of the tree lines.
Before the event, show officials said it was a major attraction and visitors enjoyed watching as shearers clipped a sheep's fleece in a trial against the clock.
Target Practice, which is designed to teach you about the nature of weapons, has you race against the clock while aiming to hit your competitors 30 times.
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Olympic road race champion Sanchez (Euskatel) had been just eight seconds in arrears before the race against the clock but never threatened and lost second overall to Colom.
He just wanted to hang around, because the next day brought a time trial against the clock, and Phinney had a chance for a good result in that event.
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Now the president is racing against the clock, trying to get a peace deal before he leaves office to help make sure Iraq alone does not define his legacy.
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CSC's Sastre was protecting a one minute 34 seconds lead over fourth-placed Cadel Evans, a noted specialist against the clock, with other places on the podium also in the balance.
In other words, not against the clock or under-the-gun.
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Work at "the Dig, " the name firefighters have given to the World Trade Center site, appeared to be gaining momentum Wednesday as emergency officials worked against the clock and against the possibility that the rescue effort may be interrupted.
Much depends, too, on how the coalition does against the Taliban-led insurgency as the clock runs down.
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But with Martyn Williams' influence increasingly important and the defensive work of Shanklin and Roberts regularly thwarting the Ospreys the clock was against them and Norton-Knight's drop-goal put the contest beyond doubt.
England were on the road to ending 16 years of World Cup anguish against the old enemy from the moment Liverpool striker Owen turned the clock back to France 98.
As the clock ticked down against Honduras and the local fans serenaded the Spanish with shouts of "You're going home in the morning" Spain's frustration briefly boiled over.
Indecisive and tentative, the Wildcats opened the half by missing nine of their first 10 shots against the Bears' zone, many of those late in the shot clock and contested.
Years later, as they were entering the winter of their lives, I sought both of them to speak about what it was like to be working, with the clock ticking, against such a disease.
Dr Jones said that in areas where both illnesses are present "protection against mosquito bites should be used around the clock, including the use of mosquito nets at night".
Since the navy's May 31 takeover of the Turkish-Hamas flotilla, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his advisors have deliberated around the clock about how to contend with the US-led international stampede against Israel.
The few moments of radio silence that precede the six o'clock and midnight news bulletins on Radio 4 are a vital defence against the noisy evangelists of now.
The bulletin became a story itself in 1988, when as Sue Lawley and Nicholas Witchell hosted the Six O'Clock News, the studio was invaded by a group of women protesting against a law which prevented councils from promoting homosexuality.
But the clock, as Mr Clinton also noted, is ticking against us all.
To win the cash, the remaining contestant will join forces with both celebrities for the final round, which will test their sketching skills against a 90 second clock.
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But at eight o'clock that evening something extraordinary happened that was to divide the Resistance leaders against each other and which could have ruined everything for de Gaulle.
In 2000, when McCain competed against George W. Bush for the Republican Presidential nomination, the bus was a stage for his around-the-clock monologues with the press corps.
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