Sentences with phrase «swim against the tide in»

By GEORGINA FERRY Swim against the tide in medical research, and your colleagues may regard you with suspicion.

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We would not «buy the dip» in U.S. credit, where my colleague Adam Richmond sees more risks, given weaker fundamentals, expensive pricing and limited upside in exchange for swimming against the recent tide.

It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»

There were false prophets saying peace peace in Israel's history and only a brave few that swam against the tide with warnings of something quite different — that Israel was apostate and about to face judgement which came to be true.

Greg Easterbrook's brief, masterful tribute to Charles Hartshorne in U.S. News and World Report (23 February 1998) similarly credits Hartshorne's ability to achieve his great philosophical work while standing outside the mainstream of philosophical thought, and swimming against the tide of intellectual fashion.

Practising Catholics in Western Europe are already swimming against the ebbing tide of a post-Christian culture.

I'm not proud of this story but I'm sharing it to let all of you know that even someone like me, with strong views on the subject of junk food in schools, can be cowed by the prospect of swimming against the tide.

But with an economy still struggling to recover, rent control laws due to expire in New York City and a tax cap wanted by a large portion of the public, Senate Democrats may be trying to swim against the tide on the issue.

Like, «you can not swim against the tide» on this one or my personal favorite «we can not put the genie back in the bottle,» but the fact is Uber has changed the game.

Swimming against the tide, Fraga managed to support democratisation without formally breaking with Francoism, in order to unite all middle class and conservatives and also attract Francoists to democracy.

Austria, Denmark and Germany scrapped wealth taxes in 1997 and several other European countries have followed suit, it seems bizarre that in Britain we are considering swimming against the tide.

Writing in The Guardian, the Labour former leadership challenger Owen Smith said he was prepared to «swim against the tide».

I will say though that craftsmanship and swimming against a tide of mediocre movie making are consistent trademarks I'd guess no - one would object to having applied to them so I'll plant my flag in both of those camps for Mr. PTA.

In a 1995 interview, NAACP Minneapolis President Bill Davis admitted that his organization was «swimming against the tide.»

Swimming against a tide is a purpose in life.

In a world where «slow travel» seems to be the preferred travel style I'm swimming against the tide, but I think I'm probably representative of many people who combine travel with their work and family commitments and want to experience the maximum in the short travel time they havIn a world where «slow travel» seems to be the preferred travel style I'm swimming against the tide, but I think I'm probably representative of many people who combine travel with their work and family commitments and want to experience the maximum in the short travel time they havin the short travel time they have.

Regular readers of PS3 Attitude will know, that to say I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII is a massive understatement; in fact, I even swam against the tide and described it as «one of my favourite games of all time» at the end of 2010.

This idea swims against a tide that has been gathering strength since the post-war period, when artists began to work seriously at shrinking that separation between art (that is aesthetic intervention) and life (the everyday, social relations that describe what this exhibition regards as our supposed purgatory in contrast to a heaven of artistic concerns).

Swimming against the tide of popular culture... the Future Feminist point of view has increasingly leaned not towards striving for equal status within a male construct or a male society, but rather to invite a redesign of society based on the principles of a feminine archetype in order to create the hope of a sustainable future for us all.»