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Plenty of spread offenses have failed miserably against the Tide in this regard.

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

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Conservative donors and operatives who gathered on a mountain shrouded resort this past weekend for the Koch brothers» annual winter retreat know that they're up against a historical tide in this year's midterm elections.

There is tremendous hope that the results obtained from these sites will help us turn the tide against antimalarial resistance in the coming years.

The city is weighed down with debt, billions in unfunded pension obligations, declining credit ratings, a police department often accused of using excessive force against African - Americans, a rising tide of murders, and a host of other troubles.

State Attorney General Andy Beshear is bringing suit against Endo Pharmaceuticals, which makes the opioid Opana ER, for alleged fraudulent and deceptive marketing practices which have contributed to a rising tide of painkiller - related deaths in Kentucky.

«The tide is very clearly turning on this issue, and it's thanks to the growing coalition of interns and young workers across the world who are standing against this worrying employment trend,» Hyde told Business Insider in an email.

Voters that embraced what became known as the pink tide that swept away the pro-Washington, free - market policies dominant in the 1990s are increasingly tuning hostile against the populist firebrands they once rallied behind.

The cyclical tide is turning once again, so trade in the 1.06 - 1.07 region looks very cheap against a long - term average of 1.22.

«While stemming the tide against corruption takes time, in the last six years many countries have still made little to no progress.»

Vigilante groups initially took a decisive role in turning the tide against the Knights Templar in Michoacan State, which is only 200 miles west of Mexico City.

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.

Exacerbating the issue is that owners of lower - priced homes likely don't have the resources to take preventative measures against the rising tides, like putting in sea walls or making changes to foundations to withstand intermittent flooding.

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.

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It is apparently for that reason that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's allies in the party leadership, including party president John Walsh and Harper's chief of staff, Ray Novak, are not inviting defeated candidates for the first post-election caucus meeting, apparently in mid-November: They want to contain a rising tide of anger against Harper and his campaign.

As a matter of fact, a change of political status quo may result to change in economic policy and that might turn the tide against investors.

Against the recent tide, we think expectations for «higher and faster» increases are overdone, especially in Canada.

«Hard information has been difficult to come by from either the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, or U.S. regulatory agencies, as to when the pipeline might return to full pressure and help to alleviate a backlog of heavy oil barrels that has been accumulating in Alberta against a rising tide of production.

The question of religious freedom is one of the most difficult and delicate of questions in a pluralistic society, and the tide is currently running against it.

Benedict was unable to stop the tide of growing secularism in Europe and the United States, though he often railed against it.

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.

In the same lectures he cautioned the Muslims against the rising tide of Muslim protestantism.

This may well account for the terrible upheavals we have undergone; not an irresistible increase in the tide of war, but simply a clash of currents: the old disruptive surface forces driving against a merging in the depths which is already taking place.

The Grimms» two volumes — here collected in one — appeared in 1812, the year the tide began to turn against Napoleon, and 1814 (postdated to 1815), the year of his defeat.

Although Rev. Falwell was understandably trying to rehabilitate his moral credibility, his explanation confirmed that the tide of public opinion in the Southern white churches ran against desegregation and interracial marriage.

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While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

Some observers thought the United Methodist Church might go along with the proposal, but in the last few years the tide seems to have turned against it.

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

Even in boards of missions there were some suggestions that the real struggle was of the higher religions against the rising tide of secularism and atheism, rather than conversion from one religion to another.

Confessing with some agitation that he too found one gay advocate to be «kind, winsome, insightful and reasonable,» Anyabwile concludes that the best way to turn the tide back against gay marriage is to «return the discussion to sexual behavior in all its yuckiest gag - inducing truth.»

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.

Any reasonable educated ones among these levels that differ in mentality, morals, ethics than others, would not be able to stand up against any waves and tides of corruption's and jungle laws, therefore are left out speechless with fears

The online video is an effort to fight back against «the rising tide of fear - mongering» resulting from plans to build a Muslim community center in lower Manhattan in New York, the group behind it said.

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.

Even in such a highly technological society like that of Japan it is reported that there are 81,511 Shinto shrines, 77,186 Buddhist temples and 6,446 Christian churches, well attended by people.22 Second, the strongest defense against the creeping tide of a secular global culture today is based on religions — Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim.

Volf, formerly of Fuller Theological Seminary, is the author of many moving and thoughtful books, including Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (Abingdon Press) and Against the Tide: Love in a Time of Petty Dreams and Persisting Enmities (Eerdmans).

Pope Urban II declared the objective of the Crusades to be the rescue of the holy places in Palestine, the defense of the Christians of the East against the Muslims, and the rolling back of the tide of Muhammedan conquest.

The old model of them against each other and independent wholesaler supplied groups, has been spiced up by Aldi, Cosco, and the tide of competitive business models evolving both in store formats such as the convenience small stores around commuter points, and digitally enabled sales.

The Crimson Tide's outlook was far grimmer before Thursday night, when athletic director Greg Byrne announced that Collin Sexton, Alabama's projected No. 1 scorer at 16.4 points per game, would serve just a one - game suspension before playing in the the Crimson Tide's Nov. 14 home opener against Lipscomb.

The Wolverines have a hilarious average margin of victory (35 points, best in the country) against a schedule that's been less weak than predicted, and the Tide have been mostly dominant against a pretty solid schedule.

Not to pick on Vandy, but this happened after a few days of the Dores expressing way more confidence in a game against the Tide than the Dores have traditionally expressed in anything, let alone a game against the Tide.

Case in point: starting safety and punt returner Eddie Jackson broke his leg against Texas A&M in the Tide's 33 - 14 victory.

However, if the Tigers can knock off the Crimson Tide and then win the SEC Championship Game — possibly against a top - five Missouri team — there seems to be a real chance they could pass Ohio State and get in position to play for a BCS title.

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

With Florida flopping in its opener against Michigan and Tennessee barely squeaking past Georgia Tech in double overtime despite getting gashed for 655 yards last week, the Bulldogs could well take the division and give the Crimson Tide a game in the conference title bout.

In last week's struggle against Mississippi State, the Tide still averaged 5.32 per carry.