Sentences with phrase «back against the tide»

Facing a market insurgency from plant - based alternatives, some dairy brands at Expo West looked for ways to push back against the tide.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

What can retailers do to push back against the rising tide of online shopping and declining physical store visits?

But there are strong tides of data pushing back against this idea.

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.»

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.

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.

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.

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!

Alabama's offense sputtered against Washington, and any Twitter search for «Lane» during the game would have shown a volley of tweets asking why the Tide weren't feeding running back Bo Scarbrough more often.

The Tide, going all the way back to the 1938 season opener, is 4 - 1 against Southern Cal.

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!

• How will Georgia respond if Alabama is able to contain Georgia running backs Nick Chubb and Sony Michel, and thus force quarterback Jake Fromm to fully lead the way against the dangerous Tide defense?

An offside penalty against the Tide meant that Miami kept the ball — albeit 77 yards farther back.

Alabama coach Nick Saban has suspended defensive back Geno Smith for the Crimson Tide's season opener against Virginia Tec... more

But it would be easier for parents to do their job if they didn't have to push back against the relentless tide of marketing aimed at their children.

Like, «you can not swim against the tide» on this one or my personal favorite «we can not put the genie back in the bottle,» but the fact is Uber has changed the game.

In the wake of the BP PLC Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, a rising tide of public push - back against the gas industry, resulting in a temporary moratorium on exploration in New York, prompted the White House to get involved.

Mind & Body: Against Ageing — No one wants to end up sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything - the good news is that we may be able to hold back the tide.

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.»

But there are strong tides of data pushing back against this idea.

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

However, if you go farther back, you can secure allies and equipment like catapults to help turn the tide of the battle and make sure that the general survives... and contributes to the battle against the Hydra.

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.

It may be that the judgment would hold back the tide of defamation claims against publishers somewhat and might alleviate the need for further legislation on the topic (subject to any appeal, of course).

Green Works is a pretty popular brand; the same way Coke and Pepsi saw the tide turning against soda and began investing in waters and juices, The Clorox Company has decided to start a green product line to fight back against... well, Clorox.

We are hooked together forever... Pushing back against the oncoming tide is pointless and impossible.