Sentences with phrase «against the tide with»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

With the Fed signaling a rate hike, policymakers would be swimming against the tide of central bank accommodation around the world.

The report made for good reading, to be sure, but with the stock trading near an all - time high going into the release, it was unable to climb further and swim against the tide of profit taking that ensnared the broader market on this particular day.

A version of this article appears in print on December 13, 2011, on Page A33 of the New York edition with the headline: From Finland, a Story Of Educational Success In Going 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.

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.

If the wartime Vatican had taken a moral stand against Nazism, the outcome might or might not have been different; the Church might have emerged from the war with the moral authority to stand against the secular tide that has swamped it.

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.»

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

Sexual taboos are disappearing, with no real possibility that the confused category of consent will be able to hold back the tide against total sexual anarchy.

If the theology of the Hartford Appeal — with its conventional theism, careful political neutrality and total lack of christological content — represents the trend of the «70s, then I'll be glad to swim against the tide for a while.

The Tide had already piled up 45 points, covering the over by themselves with 20 minutes to go, all against a team that'd given up only seven points to Kansas State the week prior.

However, I do get the feeling that after all the bad luck that the Gunners have had this season with refs, injuries, hitting the woodwork, dodgy goals against us and all that, the tide might just be turning and things might just be starting to go our way.

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.

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).

and if we somehow grab 4th or secure a champions league spot at the season's end, many (mostly AKBs) will be like «Wenger have done his best despite the fact that he had lil at his disposal» and will remain satisfied with his mediocre effort...... then they will all fail to look back at this day and recall how Wenger's complacency turned the tides against our favour!

He leaves with 104 yards and a touchdown on 30 carries against the Tide.

U will be like «wenger has done his best despite the fact he had Lil at his disposal»...... u will remain satisfied with a mediocre effort...... then u will fail to Look back at this day and recall how Wenger's mistakes turn the tides against our favour!

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.

Against Alabama, later in Bo's freshman year, Auburn faced fourth - and - goal on the Tide one - yard line with 2:30 left and the Tide ahead 22 - 17.

In one of the largest point spreads of the week, nearly six out of ten spread wagers are taking the points are going with # 24 Auburn to keep it relatively close at home against the # 2 Crimson Tide.

The Tide appeared to be taking on serious water with senior safety Lawrence «Hootie» Jones going down against Auburn in the Iron Bowl and freshman inside - backer Dylan Moses, who won the job late in the year, going down during bowl practices.

The Las Vegas betting line for Alabama's Sugar Bowl matchup against Clemson opened with the Crimson Tide favored by 1.5 points.

For this incident and many more, Psycho has always been a player that England fans can identify with, though his time in management has turned the tide against him as far as opinions are concerned.

AAC ACC Big 12 Big Ten Pac - 12 SEC Butch Dill / Associated Press Alabama DL A'Shawn Robinson had two sacks Saturday against Kentucky and leads the Tide with four this season.

Alabama found itself overvalued against the college football betting spread in big games this year; the Crimson Tide are 1 - 4 ATS over their last five games against teams with winning records.

The one loss was against 14th - ranked Minnesota, where the Tide played the last 11 minutes with only three players (and still lost by only five points.)

I'm not proud of this story but I'm sharing it to let all of you know that even someone like me, with strong views on the subject of junk food in schools, can be cowed by the prospect of swimming against the tide.

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.

The rising tide of eugenics and the concomitant glorification of war as a means of purifying the races was also influential in creating a permissive environment for conflict to occur: «with such attitudes, war often seemed desirable, both as the honourable way to struggle against fate and as a way of reinvigorating society» (p. 246).

Swimming against the tide, Fraga managed to support democratisation without formally breaking with Francoism, in order to unite all middle class and conservatives and also attract Francoists to democracy.

The # 15,000 earnings threshold that applies in the current student finance system will be uprated annually in line with inflation from 2012, in a move to help existing graduates and try to stem the rising tide of student protests against the policy.

Although tentative to start with, the upturn was strong enough in its final year for the chancellor to turn the electoral tide against his opposite number, who had predicted austerity would permanently «flatline» the economy.

But the problem with asserting a new and stronger Britishness could be that it is swimming against the tide.

Washington, D.C. (WBEN / AP)- With both sides digging in, and the tide turning against a deal to end the government shutdown on Monday, Senator Susan Collins R - Maine, gathered a meeting about two dozen leaders from both parties in her office.

De Blasio credited Dinkins with turning the tide against high crime by negotiating a deal with Albany to allow the city to vastly increase its police force.

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

New infantry - style tactics of concealment and ambush by armed park rangers are credited with turning the tide in the war against poachers of the endangered rhino on one front, in South Africa's Madikwe Game Reserve.

But an anti-37 media blitz is credited with turning the tide against the measure.

Jaffee points out that the tide was turned against that disease only after researchers figured out how to use a «cocktail» of medications to keep people with HIV from contracting AIDS.

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!

Boguslaw Linda embodies the aging artist who struggles against the rising tide of Communist censorship, inspires awe and devotion in his students and has an almost hostile relationship with his young daughter.

But he won't be able to hold the tide against the future for long, as the battle with his own personal demons prove.

Worse still is an American exchange student, Tracy (Greta Gerwig), with a crush on Atari, and who leads a singlehanded campaign to turn the tide of public opinion against Mayor Kobayashi, thus reifying old stereotypes about Japanese passivity.

Even as the tide appears to be turning against tracking, there's one group that isn't entirely on board with getting rid of the system: teachers.

Instead, the hard yards of implementation and improvement with the tide against us and the wind in our face.

With Election Day less than nine weeks away, Connecticut teachers, parents and public school advocates continue to wait for an indication as to whether any of the candidates for governor will truly stand up against the tide of the corporate education reform industry, including their absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme.