Sentences with phrase «against the tide when»

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«When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.»

But when the tide of the Civil War started going against the South, he found that his loyalty to the Southern cause was greater than his dedication to the Hippocratic Oath.

«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.

Unfortunately, this can only begin when isolated young couples take the risk and go against the tide.

Its boisterous currents showed bewildering power when they had overflowed their banks, and all our little human preventions were washed away like piles of sand that children raise against the onset of the tides.

I had to quit the last community I oversaw when I realized the tide had turned against this.

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.

That complexity turned in on itself when Alabama tried to use it against up - tempo teams that rushed to run curl - flat or zone read before the Tide could get set.

However, the tide turned in Chelsea's favour on 35 minutes when Ander Herrera was sent off for picking up a second yellow card for a foul on Eden Hazard, seconds after referee Michael Oliver had warned his teammates against persistently fouling the lively Belgian.

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.

When Watts, a junior, pulled a groin muscle early in the Nov. 10 game against Mississippi State, Zow led the Tide to a 24 - 17 comeback victory.

AC Milan 0 Arsenal 2 After all the weeks of swimming against the tide, the games when their heads dipped, their bodies felt heavier, Arsenal grasped -LRB-...)

Richard Clarke, a former counter-terrorism advisor to the White House and current ABC News consultant, said, «Since ISIS has used propaganda and its «winner» image to lure new adherents, when its propaganda figure is killed that makes it look more like a loser, more like the tide may be turning against it.»

«This is a very precarious right that we have and we need to do everything do fully protect it in New York and when we do that, we will start to change the tide in this country and help those other states and other people who are up against folks like that who just see my rights and my health care the same as men,» Quinn said.

The Republicans briefly lost their Senate majority in the 2008 elections when Barack Obama brought out a surge of young and urban voters, but they rebounded in the Obama - backlash election of 2010, just in time for redistricting, and a chance to build a floodwall against New York's rising Democratic tide.

The poignant moment when the tide of scientific history turned against the greatest physicist of the 20th century is marked by a long - forgotten paperthat Einstein delivered at the Brazilian Academy of Sciences on 7 May 1925.

«When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.»

When a new professor's bureaucratic methods leave Hogwarts unprepared to fight the rising tide of evil, Harry teaches a dedicated group of students how to defend against the dark arts.

The debates raged, but Lincoln held firm, even when it seemed like the world and the tide of history might be against him.

As Diane Ravitch, the nation's leading public education advocate, noted on one of her blog posts today, «one of the crucial elements in the grassroots movement to roll back the tide of high - stakes testing started in Texas, when school board after school board voted to oppose high - stakes testing, and eventually more than 80 % of the state's school boards voted against high - stakes testing.»

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 river slopped against the banks and stank when the tide was low.

Throughout my entire playthrough, my bottom screen went untouched, but when I was up against real player, I found myself frantically trying to use this meter whenever I had the chance in an attempt to turn the tide of the battle.

When the tide turns against you, it does so quickly, and it's so much easier to gain stress than it is to remove it.

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).

«I believe that future generations will point to this day and say «This is when the tide began to turn against the dirty, dangerous and destructive fossil fuel industry,»» — Earthjustice Managing Attorney Deborah Goldberg, Dec. 17, 2014

So it was not a surprise when the tide of agent opinion quickly turned against AgentMatch, Realtor.com President Errol Samuelson told Inman News.