Sentences with phrase «against tide»

«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.

Like other department store operators, including those in the luxury segment, Neiman Marcus has been struggling against a tide of declining same - store sales and consumers» evolving shopping habits.

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

As an extremely picky agenda enthusiast and avid handwriter, I'm interested to see what doors the Smart Planner opens for people who often find themselves swimming against the tide re: digital calendars.

Recent cases however suggest that international forum shoppers may now be swimming against the tide.

Many of the greatest scientists fought against the tide of accepted wisdom until their observations, experiments, arguments and theories were accepted and, in turn, became the consensus.

Bloomberg would seem to be swimming against the tide.

«Against a tide of mass consumption, we believe that in the future people will choose and customise more and more, to create the ideal product for them.

But Japan and Ex-Im are swimming against the tide.

For whatever reason, it is indeed vastly more difficult to publish results in climate research journals if they run against the tide of politically correct opinion.

Pushing back against this tide is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who on July 21, announced that he was contributing $ 50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.

For example, sea level rise has been pretty accurately monitored since the early 1990's via satellite (calibrated against tide gauges in geologically stable locations).

How did a ragtag group of skeptics swimming against the tide of public opinion, even big business, get elected to all those offices they hold across the country, yimster?

The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against the tide of our essential biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.

Those who try to go against the tide will get swept away....

Peer review is not perfect, but it is the first level of defense against the tide of well meaning (and not so well meaning) nonsense that people want to push.

This online exhibition presents paintings by sixteen contemporary artists in the Two Coats of Paint community who have been drawn, perhaps against the tide, to the power and metaphor of water.

It wasn't easy for the Dublin - born Sean Scully to make the abstract work that he did in the 1980s; given the trend toward figuration at the time, he was paddling hard against the tide.

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.

«Completely against the tide,» said Breton, «in a violent reaction against the impoverishment and sterility of thought processes that resulted from centuries of rationalism, we turned toward the marvelous and advocated it unconditionally.»

Against the Tide: 1000 Years.

Swimming against the tide of popular culture... the Future Feminist point of view has increasingly leaned not towards striving for equal status within a male construct or a male society, but rather to invite a redesign of society based on the principles of a feminine archetype in order to create the hope of a sustainable future for us all.»

Terence Coventry: Against the tide @ Pangolin London Terence Coventry returns with his signature style of angular bronzes.

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).

But then abstraction itself became an orthodoxy, and those who wanted to paint nature or the human figure found themselves swimming against the tide of earlier revolutions.

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».

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.

Against the Tide: An Online Exhibition and Printed Catalog, by Joanne Mattera Joanne Mattera Art Blog, October 5, 2011

Then the show crescendos with a vast room of Lucian Freud paintings that leave you swimming against a tide of tired, undulating flesh.

There are still so many obstacles, feeling like swimming against the tide, but reading your posts gives me a good push to continue.

There are a few commercial developers still producing worthy adventure games (good for them), but they are swimming against the tide.

Fighting mobile gaming is swimming against the tide, so grow alongside it instead.

I think your «going against the Tide» to put it poetically.

Regular readers of PS3 Attitude will know, that to say I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII is a massive understatement; in fact, I even swam against the tide and described it as «one of my favourite games of all time» at the end of 2010.

Three reviewers gave it a perfect 10, while one fucker just had to go against the tide and give it a 9.

Yesterday Pat Garratt, a writer I personally respect greatly, used his highly popular video game site VG247.com to make a small stand against a tide of hypocritical journalism bashing.

Vib - Ribbon was unafraid to go against the tide.

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.

Frigates and support vessels are trying to hold a line against the tide but finding themselves slowly, irrevocably pushed back towards the Mothership.

In a world where «slow travel» seems to be the preferred travel style I'm swimming against the tide, but I think I'm probably representative of many people who combine travel with their work and family commitments and want to experience the maximum in the short travel time they have.

The resources available to help anyone trying to make the effort are nearly nonexistant, and the ability of a small colony of ferals to pump out kittens faster than you can catch them is like pushing sand against the tide.

If you have studied about the wealthiest individuals, then you might have noticed that they go against the tide of the opinion of financial experts.

Who will swim against the tide of Statism?

Despite the lackluster sales of its e-reader, Sahin still feels that digital is the future and that «you can not swim against the tide».

And I hear you on the changing perspective on marketing going against the tide — I think that means you're in the trenches, seeing the changes before the rest of the troops.

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.

Swimming against a tide is a purpose in life.

And it is dawning on me that my railing against the tide is possibly just as doomed as those peoples» cries against the future were, particularly considering that I am writing this on a tablet PC that is tailor - made for reading comics like these... and further considering that crippling print costs are the reason I publish my foul opinions about comics on the exact same Web.

Available today, journey into the world of the upcoming summer blockbuster Captain America: The Winter Solider with an all - new Infinite Comic prelude from legendary writer Peter David (All - New X-Factor, The Incredible Hulk) and rising star artist Rock - He Kim (X-Force, Infinity: Against the Tide)!

Why write something that is against the tide?