Sentences with phrase «against the tide»

The highly - desirable standards agenda is therefore swimming against the tides of several other governance pressures, each of which has its own valid claims.

Going against the tide of uncovering certain body parts to be sexy and appealing is tough, but there's a growing trend of modest fashion that's taken off lately.

Those of us who can find such strength and belief must stand against the tide of exponential growth.

It's hard to work against the tide but we do have the power to change the food climate and vote with our dollars for better food, at better prices!

It was like pushing against the tide of the water.

For whatever reason, it is indeed vastly more difficult to publish results in climate research journals if they run against the tide of politically correct opinion.

Increasing profitability to free up cash flow can seem like swimming against the tide when every month you have to pay suppliers and employees money that could've otherwise been counted as profit.

It is the only place in the world that has turned against the tide.

The larger than life image is created in the midst of a race against the tide.

But the whole time, it felt like we were swimming against the tide by following old - school standards for transparency and accountability in how we handled data.

It is hard to avoid the impression that he has tired after swimming so far against the tide.

She faced down critics to make difficult budget cuts, even boosting the city's bond rating slightly against the tide of fiscal crisis.

The core samples were then tested against tide - gauge measurements and then corrected against the vertical movement of the land.

Peer review is not perfect, but it is the first level of defense against the tide of well meaning (and not so well meaning) nonsense that people want to push.

It raises fascinating questions and one can see that to go against the tide is never easy but the results are world changing.

When you're fighting against the tide of four million other books you need a company that has inside industry experience to give you an advantage.

The government's reluctance to take action is perhaps going against the tide.

This year it's the opposite: I'm surrounded by contradictory patterns, one swimming against the tide of the other.

The totalitarian President Snow (Donald Sutherland) pushes back against the tide with naked force, installing storm troopers («Peacekeepers») throughout the districts and acting with public violence any time even a whiff of uprising is in the air.

The untold history of charter schools shows why this is: Progressive reformers are stuck fighting against the tide in a campaign that has, from the start, looked at public institutions, labor, and government with a wary eye.

Franklin was swimming against the tide because insurance companies dominated the middle class investing markets, but Charlie was convinced that he had a good story to tell.

It's choosing to swim against the tide for the company (not to mention a recent article from our print publication), since modern convention dictates that you can work from just about anywhere.

Both models are valuable, although which one is more attractive — either fight against the tide with Mega Man 8 and Mega Man 9 or roll with it alongside Mega Man 7 and Mega Man 10 — is subject to personal taste.

Plus, the rumours are that this sort of small SUV will be the next big thing in terms of sales on the forecourts, so, not wishing to be left paddling against the tide, we thought we should take it seriously.

It wasn't easy for the Dublin - born Sean Scully to make the abstract work that he did in the 1980s; given the trend toward figuration at the time, he was paddling hard against the tide.

They, with great effort and sacrifice and going completely against the tide of the times, raised us in the Catholic Faith with conviction and joy in a radically secularising Netherlands.

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.

And it is dawning on me that my railing against the tide is possibly just as doomed as those peoples» cries against the future were, particularly considering that I am writing this on a tablet PC that is tailor - made for reading comics like these... and further considering that crippling print costs are the reason I publish my foul opinions about comics on the exact same Web.

It seems that it is not the consequences of the banking collapse which is holding back the economy but British businesses that «every day battle against a tide of risk assessment forms and face the fear of being sued for massive sums».

He was quite conscious that «a Catholicintellectual must be ready to swim against the tide which will flow against him until the end of time».

Like other department store operators, including those in the luxury segment, Neiman Marcus has been struggling against a tide of declining same - store sales and consumers» evolving shopping habits.

Dyson speaks from experience, of course - he's someone who has chosen to go against the tide plenty of times in his career so far, and yeah, it's fair to say that he's fared the better for it.

Were the Fed to attempt to hike short - term interest rates another 25 basis points, it would be moving against the tide of global central bank policies.

At the country level Czech Bond Funds swam against the tide sweeping money out to Emerging Europe Funds.

It's that they think they're doing God a favour, doing their duty to defend a beleaguered faith against a tide of the unsaved.

No, this is one salmon swimming upstream against the tide of history.

This is an admirable but rather feckless attempt to erect a bulwark against the tide of egalitarianism that has been running so strongly for the last century.

«We do envision being in more markets and a successful fine wine brand against the tide of private labels and bigger box stores.

«See also John Durie, «Bernie Brookes is paddling madly against the tide» (The Australian, 13 September 2013)

«An improved labelling system would have the additional benefit of enabling Australian growers to compete on a level playing field against the tide of cheap, inferior, and potentially dangerous imports.»

For Boulware, the rematch felt like the culmination of a year spent seeking revenge against the Tide.

When A&M was jumping out to a 20 - 0 lead against the Tide, the Aggies attempted 14 passes; on four of them (29 percent), Alabama brought more than four pass rushers.