In this case the lawyers had the misfortune to be up against Skadden Arps.
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"When the decisions don't go for you in the game, and Dundee United score from the penalty, then you're going to be up against it, " said Adams.
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"I hope so, for the sake of the Ryder Cup, " he told BBC Scotland, when asked if he would like like to be up against Woods in Wales.
McGinley said he was honored to be squaring up against the eight-time major winner.
Worse, the rival ethnic groups within the Shona are rumoured to be lining up against each other.
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Moreover, the benefits of full-blown mergers (instead of more modest arrangements, such as alliances) ought properly to be stacked up against their costs.
The critical decision for the NHL ahead of the coming Winter Classic game would seem to be whether to go up against the NFL and its telecasts that have taken the top 20 spots of all television programming during the past year.
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This one promises download speeds of up to 42Mbps and upload speeds approaching 5.76Mbps, with a swiveling design that allows the body of the modem to be tucked up against the side of the notebook and protects it from being damaged by accidental bumps.
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.
It seems to be set up to help defend its investors against so-called patent trolls, enterprising patent lawyers and small companies that sue but have few or no products for sale.
An orphaned command will not be able to stand up against the daddy commands arrayed against it with decades of history and layers of bureaucracy on their side.
He was originally expected to be sidelined for up to a month but if he returned against Toulon, it would mean a lay-off of two-and-half weeks.
The trade unions, who have strongly condemned violence and are already worried that the murder may be used to pep up propaganda against them, have been thrown on the defensive.
Finally, to add insult to injury a termination fee of up to 3.5% might be charged against your balance when the funds are actually distributed.
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Current high security cylinder locks that protect government and high value commercial facilities are rated to be immune from attack for a minimum of up to fifteen minutes against covert methods of entry.
It's not how marriage was supposed to be set up and I am absolutely against it.
But will the Auction House be able to put up a fight against the inevitable third party market?
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Atlanta's third catcher, Gerald Laird is lined up to be behind the plate against the Mets on Sunday for Julio Teheran's start.
He sat on his club's bench at Saracens last weekend sparking hopes in some quarters he could be freed to line up for Wales against the Wallabies.
One Shangpu villager tells Global Times says residents want the village chief to be punished for allegedly hiring "thugs" to rough up villagers protesting against an alleged illegal land grab by local officials and businesses.
Although the details are yet to be settled, the loans are expected to be used to set up a fund to cushion a dollarised Ecuador against economic shocks from abroad, to give subsidised loans to get businesses going again, to inject liquidity into a broken banking system, and to pay for schemes aimed at helping the poor.
Mike Quigley, who used to head Bassetlaw District Council, will be up against former Labour MP Paddy Tipping for the job.
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The election won, Mr Cardoso's most urgent task will be to shore up Brazil's defences against market turbulence by pushing through, Covas-style, fiscal austerity.
If investors were worried about losing those gains, they would be paying up for options to protect against a sudden fall in share prices.
To mend relations with America, hurt by parliamentary refusal in March to let Turkey be used as an invasion base against Iraq, he has offered up to 10, 000 troops to help run that country.
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The scholarly German appeared to be the ideal choice to shore up an ancient ideal of a Christian, humanist Europe against the challenges posed by secularism.
All in all, blindly applying for roles that have no more clarity than the badly worded job description found on a job board makes it pretty tough to know what you are up against, what is really needed or what will be necessary to say to be competitive.
In recent days, crude oil prices have turned up while the euro appears to be stabilizing against the dollar.
The IMF believes that between 100bn and 200bn euros would be needed to shore up Europe's banks against future shock.
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