Sentences with phrase «against the flow of»

But compared with the new leadership, they were more measured and less methodical in their crackdowns against the flow of information.

But religion is a man - made system that tends to go against the flow of what the Lord Jesus brought to life through His death and resurrection.

As for the turning around — I had always assumed it was a combination of individual soldiers trying to get out against the flow of more army from the bank, Pharoah still driving them forwards (not appreciating quite what was happening) and, even if he had approved, the real intention being to regroup to fight another day.

Had we been playing a world class team like Bayern Munich, or Barca and we managed a 2 - 1 win against the flow of play I would say well done but it was West Ham Arsenal should have been able to push them back into their half and keep the ball up their end for 60 % of the game creating chance after chance WITHOUT being caught on a counter.

J.A. Davis, a 23 - year - old Texas Tech senior, fought against the flow of departing fans as he weaved down the concrete aisles of Jones Stadium in Lubbock.

He also slammed de Blasio for staying silent on the independent expenditure while railing against the flow of corporate money in elections for years in his role as public advocate.

This is significant because it goes against the flow of the government's message for the past couple of years.

Under such conditions, no sound wave could travel against the flow of the racing fluid.

For optimal results, you want to always keep the dumbbells submerged to create resistance and work against the flow of the water (if there is movement)

Go against the flow of traffic while dropping off the kids, or not know which type of ham, salami, or cheese you want at the deli, and there's hell to pay with these other moms.

Unstoppable, he is able to demonstrate skills that range from high - speed driving against the flow of a one - way street to nursing a drug overdosed patient back to life with a selection of medications.

Born in 1965, the handsome - looking Aida has always had a knack for going against the flow of artistic coolness, mixing traditional technique and contemporary themes, East and West, while choosing often bizarre and uncomfortable subjects.

Flying with the flow shortens the journey time or against the flow of a jet stream extends it.

Per Espen Stoknes shows the way with this brilliant description of how to go with rather than against the flow of human nature and thus shift society to action.

The fact that the bicyclist involved in this month's fatal crash was traveling against the flow of traffic may have contributed to the cause of the accident, although the exact details remain unknown.

Bikers and pedestrians should also always follow all the rules of the road, including never jaywalking, crossing at designated crosswalks, traveling with or against the flow of traffic and paying attention to others around them.

Not exact matches

Arkema reported a free cash flow of - $ 25 million in the first quarter of 2018, up against the first quarter of 2017 -LRB-- $ 44 million), thanks to higher EBITDA and lower taxes.

Trying to compete against Chinese companies that can harness the vast flow of migrants moving from the countryside into the cities — well, that's like trying to sell air conditioners in Inuvik.

If I were to draw a schematic of 1980s «voice of God» media and hold it up against the way information flows today it would be clear that we now have a much more advanced system for movement of information in ever faster and more direct ways.

In August, the investment firm Richard Bernstein Advisors compared the performance of the average investor — based on the monthly flows of money in and out of mutual funds — against a variety of stock indexes, commodities and other asset classes over a 20 - year period ending Dec. 31, 2013.

Norse explains that «attacks shown are based on a small subset of live flows against the Norse honeypot infrastructure, representing actual worldwide cyber attacks by bad actors.»

Free cash flow yield is an overall return evaluation ratio of a stock, which standardizes the free cash flow per share a company is expected to earn against its market price per share.

The payout of PSUs is based on IBM's three - year cumulative performance against operating EPS and free cash flow targets.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia's court case over the flow of heavy oil through the province could be damaged by the NDP government's previous positions against the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline, says a legal expert.

Latin American countries with less of a buffer against a global downturn, such as Mexico and Brazil, have also been a drag on exchange traded fund (ETF) flows.

And they are to relinquish public spending to private contractors, and not to interfere with the international flow of investment funds, not even to impede capital flight by domestic elites or speculation against their national currencies.

The way you (properly) value a business is to weigh the price against the long - term stream of cash flows that you expect that business to deliver into your hands over time.

Subir Gokarn, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India, announced that his country also was reviewing defenses against the «potential threat» of inward capital flows.»

Analysts who retain sympathy for the gold standard, like self - confessed «gold bug» John Mauldin, have always understood that the main argument in favor of gold is that it imposes an unbreakable trade and capital flow discipline — indeed that is also the main argument against gold — but many of them have tended to de-emphasize reserve currency economics mainly, I think, because this particular problem is to them subsumed under their more general concerns about money.

One of the things that happens is a lot of startups get pulled into the system and that's unfortunate, because it turns out that when you've got this thing that's 18 % of GDP and you start following the money flows, you enter a market in one place with a very altruistic notion that I'm going to change things, and ask things morph, it turns out you're actually just helping the system get bigger and helping people collect, if you will, as a leach against the system.

You can not control the risk of the asset like you could with real estate by using creative legal structuring, having proper insurance, or protecting yourself against economic cycles through positive cash flow.

Cash profits over the past 12 months amount to a respectable $ 24.4 million, which, weighed against the company's $ 820 million enterprise value, works out to an enterprise value - to - free - cash - flow ratio of about 34.

Against this backdrop, to ensure a constant flow of income during their retirement, the need for proper management of their accumulated and inherited wealth arises.

Further measures are likely during the year as the authorities grapple with slowing growth, adverse balance of payments flows, and the desire to maintain a stable currency against a basket.

Additionally, it's easy to get reports and graphs of lead flow and capture rates against other variables.

Adding insult to injury, the puny effective tax saving to those tax - filers from the capital gains partial inclusion (worth $ 7.50 in federal taxes at the 15 % marginal rate) was only half the effective savings pocketed by the top 1 % tax - filers (realized at a 29 % rate) on EACH $ 100 of their capital gains partial inclusion (which was then applied against a capital gains flow that was 600 times larger).

In this context — where the platform's linchpin is the quality of its deal flow — who is it really competing against in the long run?

Estimating future surplus starts with current metrics like earnings or cash flow, so using the most recent financial information against the market valuation is a good indicator of the relative cheapness of a stock.

The craziest libertarians are now suggesting that Romney should go with the flow and carry the election by campaigning against the scandal of the untaxed.

Your house washed away because that is the natural result of two fathoms of water flowing against a frame house.

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

He who stood against the intolerance of another religious establishment of another day, bent as surely as this one on stopping the free flow of religious communication.

But, make no mistake, when cash flows against the rights of certain individuals, that is discrimination.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

I still don't understand how a population of people (African Americans) who fought so hard to obtain the same rights as everyone else can be so against other people who have the same blood flow as they do, are deserving of the same rights they obtained, and who should be recognized as equals as well.

The well - known river metaphor, according to which there are many rivers that, ultimately, flow into the same ocean, is turned critically against the other pluralists by Panikkar: Jordan, Tiber and Ganges, metaphors for three types of religion, only meet as steam in the clouds: «Religions do not coalesce, certainly not as organized religions», Raimon Panikkar, «The Jordan, the Tiber and the Ganges.

The argument can not be won except against the background of a complete and cogent apologetic for the existence of God, the spirituality of man, the necessity of revelation, the literal truth of the Incarnation, and the nature of the Church that flows from this fact of Divine teaching and ministry through the ages.

Thus, in the political calculus that flowed from portraying racism as the central fact of American life, no white effort to redress the transgressions against the blacks was ever adequate, and no black challenge to the privileges or sensibilities of whites was ever excessive.

Elizabeth Henry, the national adviser on Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns says that while Christians are called to go against the flow, churches inevitably act as a microcosm of society and will reflect some of the racist attitudes around them.

We will all miss your daily reflections, cartoons and messages, but if you wreck yourself trying to go against ebb and flow of spiritual life, you will end up being useless to anybody.