Sentences with phrase «against the tide because»

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.

Bourke is also swimming against the tide because these laws will undoubtedly lead to more Aboriginal people being thrown into prison.

Not exact matches

For example, the Vietnamese War was the first to be a livingroom, TV affair, and it is not too much to believe that the tide of public opinion finally turned against the whole enterprise in large part because of TV viewers sickened by the continuous sequence of gruesome spectacles on the nightly news.

Listing the 23 non-Alabama first - place votes seems counterproductive this week, especially because there's more solid reasoning to reward a team that isn't the Tide (which has a win over No. 29 Michigan and... that's it, really) for winning against tough competition.

The Tide fumbled two punts against Arkansas, something Saban mentioned in his postgame presser, because of course Saban mentioned that in his postgame presser.

This is fascinating because the Crimson Tide have never received less than 28 % of spread bets (10/21/06 against Tennessee).

The Tide lost their composure in the second half against Auburn, fell by 12, and barely eked out a Playoff bid because of it.

The tide against us because funding reduction is coming.

It attracts a large number of visitors each year because of its fantastic beaches, with wide stretches of fine white sand and evergreen forests that brush against the high tide line.

Copenhagen failed because the political tide had turned against the consensus, and is continuing to, in the U.S. at least.

The simulations indicate that these nonlinear lee waves propagate against the generating flow (usually the tide) and are arrested because they have the same phase speed as the oncoming flow.

And perhaps because the electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft we're talking about are just now starting to appear, there's still time to turn the tide against «flying cars.»

«The change [in the book industry] is enormous and Barnes & Noble is going to continue to shrink because it goes against the tide,» says Davidowitz.