But eventually, no matter how good you are at digging up the church records, and all that stuff, you hit what the genealogists call a brick wall.

It's like trying to run into a brick wall.

Asia s BRICs Hit the Wall

Shoots seem tiny to reach the sun they can break through a brick wall.

Ignore those creeping fears that we have finally hit the wall.

Very interesting studies done on people recovering from surgery, who found that people who faced a brick wall versus people who looked out on trees and nature, the people who looked out on the brick wall were in the hospital longer, needed more medication, and had more medical complications.

That hit a wall. They couldn't shrink them and keep the vacuum.

Once increasing fixed investment becomes impossible most likely after 2013 China is poised for a sharp slowdown. Instead of focusing on securing a soft landing today, Chinese policymakers should be worrying about the brick wall that economic growth may hit in the second half of the quinquennium.

See the brick wall as all these problems we've inflicted on the planet, environmental and social. It's a message of hope.

Maybe if I hit the side wall it will bounce around the room.

Some workmen in Paris had broken through a brick wall, and happened upon this hidden cache of wines apparently the property of Thomas Jefferson. 1787, 1784.

Consider the following image consumers and investors as passengers in a car hurtling directly toward a brick wall. In this case, the driver stepping on the brake will give the passengers more confidence.

In 1966, a year before Israeli paratroopers ostensibly united Jerusalem, the composer Naomi Shemer sang of, the city that sits solitary, and in its heart a wall. Today, the wall dividing Jerusalem is not made of concrete or brick but that does not make it any less real.

But, as everyone kicks the can down the road, the can is getting heavier and, in the major emerging markets and advanced economies alike, is approaching a brick wall. Policymakers can either crash into that wall, or they can show the leadership and vision needed to dismantle it safely.

Someone's put a brick through the window.

While these holy sites await reconstruction, they are quietly being taken apart, brick by brick, and any trace of their existence is being destroyed.

We have made some progress in other words, we have backtracked a little we did not hit the wall and we should take it from there.

In these countries, there is therefore no reason to think that fiscal consolidation would have a strong positive effect on confidence. That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view.

Take a look You could play it in the dump with some rocks over there, you could play it in a little alley you couldn't hit square anywhere, because the bat hit the wall don't forget the air conditioning and the cable wires.

But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.

That possibility could arise sometime in the future, when the proverbial brick wall comes into view. But it is not on the horizon yet, which means that there would be no positive private spending response to buffer public spending cuts.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.

He said, OK. I measured the height of a brick.

In 1950s they were shrinking vacuum tubes, making them smaller and smaller. They finally hit a wall they couldn't shrink the vacuum tube any more and keep the vacuum.

Epiphany hit me. Something hit me.

In other G 20 economies, including the United States, Germany, China, and Japan, the car is still cruising down an open road. Fiscal velocity may be considerable that is, deficits may be large but there is no sign of a brick wall ahead.

The other one is from the previous brick that was placed.

All of these buildings are made out of reinforced concrete and brick.

Seeing the economy hurtling toward a brick wall, they are holding their collective breath, while evidence that the government is serious about stepping on the brake can induce them to exhale. In this case, fiscal consolidation is likely to affect their investment spending positively.

Today's hit single is not last year's hit single.

Thomas Friedman is one of my favorite New York Times columnists, and he poignantly commented that 2008 is when we hit a wall, when Mother Nature and the market both said, No more.

Shoots seem tiny, but to reach the sun they can break through brick walls.

See the brick walls as all the problems that we've inflicted on this planet.

Hit me.

Hit me.

Wall to Wall Wal Mart?

Why hit him?

She hit him.

There's an aerated brick I did in Limoges last year, in Concepts for New Ceramics in Architecture.

Object metaphors describe price movements as non living things, as in, The Dow fell like a brick.

Don't get hit again,

Tom hit a triple.

Earthquakes frequently hit Japan.

Did somebody hit Tom?