And where our businesses run up against barriers in individual markets, we are acting.
Moreover, in reforming the state sector, China's leaders have run up against a brick wall.
But as they grow, they run up against the limits of what one person can manage.
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It's not the first time a Western pop diva has run up against Egyptian conservatism.
But many attempts to link doctrine and economics have run up against exceptions and better explanations.
The government of Thailand has run up against similar limits to its power to control the international Web.
If you start there, you run up against the limits of your materials.
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If the government is serious about reform, it will sooner or later run up against Italy's powerful trade unions.
In the process, he has run up against the Senate's snail-paced legislative process.
The stars had better be aligned right for change, because such liberalization will run up against powerful interests and inertia.
If they zealously try to get drugs and guns off the street they inevitably run up against individuals' constitutional protections.
Otherwise, if you begin to run up against the device's capacity, you'll have to delete some apps or media or other content.
Now, however, the city has run up against a federal road block.
Those planned increases will run up against a still frugal shopper.
Instead, Bensouda said investigators had run up against myriad problems pursuing the case, including witnesses who had died and others who were too afraid to testify.
The biggest problem, though, is that any ideas for coping with sprawl have always run up against local politics, racial tensions, history and, not least, geography.
Customers who want a refund from their bank after paying for services on their debit card may run up against problems with time limits for their claim.
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Too many times, though, it has run up against corporate pressure applied through Congress, not least in the case of special-purpose entities, the trick that Enron used.
And it says that yeah, the Pentagon can do that, but only into, perhaps, July, before they really would start to run up against some serious rubs.
And greater labor mobility is likely to run up against existing government regulations as well as cultural and language barriers that discourage the movement of workers across borders.
BlackRock uses a modified market weighting only where it would otherwise run up against diversification regulations, as in the case of the Peru and Israel funds, Ms Ting says.
Many venture-backed private companies have become attractive targets for larger publicly traded companies that have run up against too much competition from private equity funds to buy older growth companies.
He is steady to becoming a powerhouse fashion brand just like his successors and has run up against current fashion heavy hitter, Jason Wu while competing to dress First Lady, Michelle Obama.
But for the UNHCR and other agencies that care for the displaced, this was only the latest of many cases where the high ideals of international law run up against the realities of power politics.
Economic liberalization plans have inevitably run up against entrenched racial preferences, for instance in the property development market, where ethnic Malays still command discounts, and in higher education, which continues to operate on a quota system.
But they've all run up against a hard reality: Money woes caused by the economic collapse and rising costs mean Cooper can no longer afford the perk that has been held up as a sacrosanct part of the school's identity.
Just before the New Year, the US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner indicated that the federal government would run up against the debt ceiling - a legal cap on its total borrowing set by Congress - by the end of February.
And both think the cuts should be strung out over a longer time frame to give the economy a break, particularly at a time when the Bank of England has seemingly run up against the limits of its ability to lessen the pain.
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But the popular desire to preserve the physical remains of the wall has run up against the economic realities of the cash-strapped city's need to develop long-barren areas of the capital, including the so-called death strip where many people trying to flee East Germany lost their livesdied.
One challenge that childcare providers run up against in providing the empathy that children need, especially with the very young where I think touch is vitally important, is that teachers have to very careful in touching and comforting children because of liability issues and how easily acts of compassion can be construed as child molestation.
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