This time, the company finds itself in unfamiliar territory with its back against the wall facing a bully in Apple who has a great memory.
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With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him.
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Joe DiMaggio sat on the tar of the playground, with his back against the wall on the Powell Street side, his legs cocked in front of him like a couple of pickets.
Pendle is pushed backward by the impact of the first bullet but the stairwell is narrow and with his back against the wall he and Buller are still no more than four feet apart.
It seems like whenever we have our back against the wall, whenever we are cornered, and whenever we look to be down for the count, a special class of citizens frees us from uncertainty and doubt.
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So it's time to go out there and set out Labour's stall, reinvigorate the party, broaden its support, not while its back is against the wall and its head down but from a position of strength.
"When your back is against the wall, you think beyond your normal boundaries, " Kamath says.
Has Ford, its financial back already against the wall, overreacted to a temporary spike in gas prices?
As you probably know, software is fluid and Microsoft has shown that they can change when their back is against the wall.
Then again, there have been times, when his back was against the wall and the poll numbers were bad, when he's made a decision to turn down the volume and play like things are all cool.
But it is dismaying that conservatives should feel a natural kinship with a figure whose defining characteristics would seem even to them to be a back up against the wall, a sharply limited number of options, and very little time remaining.
Arthur made the adjustment, and Hytner stepped away from his chair against the back wall to watch Jodi Prenger, as the cheeky, high-heeled Dolly, encounter Francis and his lecherous glances.
Still, Goldman is fighting back against the stereotypical perception of Wall St. greed that has tainted the brand.
Watson stood against the back wall of the bridge, near an old brass pilot wheel, and bit his upper lip.
And, yes, we had some fights between me and the Republicans when they fought back against us reining in the excesses of Wall Street -- absolutely -- because that was a fight that needed to be had.
Turning his back on the flag, he struck his ball against the wall and saw it rebound over his head and onto the green.
After the half-naked men are put up against a wall, the camera moves back behind the crowd, losing sight of them.
One of the reasons we have a situation where we are going back time and time again, beating our heads against the wall with this false paradigm of peace on the basis of the establishment of a Palestinian state, is because the left has discounted any alternative policy.
Jackson's conversion gave Sarries a 13-point lead but with their backs against the wall the Saints immediately hit back with a cracking try.
Ravi, to his right, pushed his desk against the side wall, so that his back was to Clementi and his computer screen faced the room.
Normally Jocelyn and I would be directly in front of the stage, but tonight we stand back, leaning against a wall with Lou.
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