Located close to tourist hot spots Ipanema and Leblon, it is the largest favela in the city with an estimated 250, 000 residents living in the vertiginous, tight wall of brick and concrete housing that covers the entire hillside.
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Moreover, in reforming the state sector, China's leaders have run up against a brick wall.
"Every time I try to talk to somebody I hit a brick wall, " McCabe said.
If they hit a brick wall they kick and they chase it very well.
And it will probably hit a brick wall in Congress, should it move through there.
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You ask them to run through a brick wall and they will do it.
Poor after-sales service meant attempts to rectify problems with the work hit a brick wall, he added.
He told BBC Scotland he had come up against a "brick wall" when trying to access some files.
The property faced a four-lane highway, but Serenola was tucked behind a brick wall and a modest electric gate.
Marin's brick wall proved to be his 10, 000 square-foot home in the Biltmore Estates, an exclusive enclave in Phoenix.
The two men scuffled, and both ended toppling over a low-level brick wall.
There was just the goal he had painted on the red-brick wall beside the house, for noisy football practice.
And by many accounts, these living dinosaurs are indeed about to hit a brick wall at the end of their 250-million-year run.
Before filming the show's end on Friday, Aniston told reporters the cast felt they were "speeding towards a brick wall".
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As silicon chips continue to shrink they will eventually reach their physical limits and Moore's law will hit a brick wall.
But Thenmoli quickly ran into a bureaucratic brick wall when she tried to put on a performance in English and Malay.
Martin Raguz, a Croat leader, says that the constitution agreed in 1995 to end Bosnia's war has hit a brick wall.
"We've been trying ever so hard but we've been banging our head against a brick wall, " Le Tissier told BBC Radio Solent.
In the event, it has taken less than two months of his new term for his regime to hit a brick wall.
"I feel like hitting my head against a brick wall, " he says.
At the front entrance, silent lights pulsated rhythmically against the brick wall.
It's like watching a train speeding headlong towards a brick wall and it isn't even like watching it in slow motion any more.
Dave Chappelle, Dane Cook, Sacha Baron Cohen, even Kevin James in "Here Comes the Boom, " are built like the brick wall at the Improv.
Unfortunately, those plans often run straight into a brick wall when the budding business owner starts trying to open the business in their town.
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We have a lot of people that have run into a brick wall in trying to come up with solutions to our current problems.
This was in the days of contact masks, and the subsequent introduction of the 1x stepper rocketed the industry past that particular brick wall.
The Nintendo building is a giant white cube, seven stories tall, surrounded by a plaza of white cobblestone and beyond that a white brick wall.
But outside of providing him with a brick wall for an offensive line, any promise to keep the signal caller healthy should be taken with caution.
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In his third interview (for a job as a salesman) he sits across from a brick wall of a man with a marine tattoo on his bicep.
For my part, I am convinced that we must find a way out of the conventional debates so that we do not simply hit a brick wall.
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