Sentences with phrase «against the tide which»

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».

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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.

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.

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 armies of the Byzantine Empire were long a bulwark against the Moslem tide which, but for them, might have engulfed much of Western Europe.

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.

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

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 brought a single - deep safety blitz with the other linebacker and the boundary safety rushing, which meant Fitzpatrick was on an island against the «stick» option route by the TE.

With the Heisman winner and the best defense in the country, the Tide draw the best first - round matchup against Michigan State, which sets them up well to bring Nick Saban's fourth national championship back to Tuscaloosa (fifth overall).

With their win over SEC Tournament top seed Auburn, Collin Sexton and the Crimson Tide earned a bit of breathing room, even if a defeat in tomorrow's semifinal against Kentucky would be Bama's 15th, which would tie last season's Vanderbilt squad for the most losses ever for an at - large.

But he does have elite feet, which should be helpful against the Tide.

To stem the tide against breastfeeding, in August, 1990, policy makers and international agencies adopted the Innocenti Declaration, which declared that all babies should receive «exclusive breastfeeding from birth to 4 — 6 months of age [WHO recommendations amended to 6 months in 2001] and thereafter should continue to be breastfed».

In a political system in which candidates are largely responsible for funding and organising their own re-election campaigns, it is dangerous for parliamentarians to stand against the tide of public opinion.

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

The widespread mobilization against plastic bags has sparked a counterattack by the plastics industry, which was slow to react to the rising tide of negative sentiment among consumers.

Knowing which firing mode works best against certain opponents can be the key to victory, and your special moves are able to turn the tide of war in a flash.

The PISA report has since been followed by the final NAPLAN results, which held some hope out for Australian educators fighting against the tide of declining scores.

Now Audi going against the tide has launched a manual gearbox equipped Q3 (called the S Edition) which is front wheel driven, devoid of features, assembled in India and priced attractively to lure first time luxury car buyers.

FCA has gone against the tide of price hike which we have seen since the start of 2017 with major auto manufacturers increasing its product prices due to the rising input costs.

And it's like Aston Martin is going against the tide, which isn't exactly what it needs at this point as it has yet to reach that safe point after years of struggle.

Some of that is due to what I learn about being Indie, to what seems to drive sales, my constantly changing perspective on marketing which seems to go against the tide, what I want to write as I change and grow as a writer.

All boss encounters — aside from the one in Labyrinth Zone, which is just a race against the tide — do this by forcing the encounter to take place on a single, non-scrolling screen.

Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries.

Announcing the group's formation in 1933, Nash wrote «The formation of Unit One is a method of concentrating certain individual forces; a hard defence, a compact wall against the tide, behind which development can proceed and experiment continue».

Against the Tide — I gcoinne na Taoide — A personal view comprises paintings, prints and sculpture through which the artists concerned had a message to communicate to a wider public.

To conduct the research, a team of scientists led by John Fasullo of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, combined data from three sources: NASA's GRACE satellites, which make detailed measurements of Earth's gravitational field, enabling scientists to monitor changes in the mass of continents; the Argo global array of 3,000 free - drifting floats, which measure the temperature and salinity of the upper layers of the oceans; and satellite - based altimeters that are continuously calibrated against a network of tide gauges.

We should put our collective effort into turning the tide which has been running against those who, without legal assistance, are unable to make a case for themselves.»

Now, unlike the dominant tide in Canadian political culture against which Chief Justice Joyal wants to push back, I am not uncritical of the courts — of their power and of the manner in which they exercise it.