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.

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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.

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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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This is a country with its back against the wall.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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