Sentences with phrase «by swimming against the tide»

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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.

It's certainly an arguable case, but it is not as though he is swimming against the great tide of public opinion by saying Churchill did great things against the Nazis.

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.

Tony Benn's life seems defined by an almost stubborn desire to swim against the tide.

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

This year it's the opposite: I'm surrounded by contradictory patterns, one swimming against the tide of the other.