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To have legal validity in a prescribed territory; as in, the writ (a court order) runs throughout the county. To have applicability or legal effect during a prescribed period of time; as in, the Statute of Limitations has run against the claim. To follow or accompany; to be attached to another thing in pursuing a prescribed course or direction; as in, the Covenant (a written promise or restriction) runs with the land.



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Writer David Auburn tries to address this, but runs up against Bullock's dramatic limitations.
The illusionism of the figurative representations runs up against the actuality of painting.
The authors' notion of an "interested" state works fairly well even if it runs up against another hard reality: the weight of international relations on contemporary Vietnam, the uncomfortably tight "diplomatic vice" which has compelled the regime to engage in complex games of power.
 
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