Sentences with phrase «hard against the tide»
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.
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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.
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The Coca - Cola Co (NYSE: KO) and PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) may have to reinvent themselves soon if they are to survive and flourish, as the tide turns against soft drinks and toward hard soda.
«Hard information has been difficult to come by from either the pipeline's operator, TransCanada, or U.S. regulatory agencies, as to when the pipeline might return to full pressure and help to alleviate a backlog of heavy oil barrels that has been accumulating in Alberta against a rising tide of production.
It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»
It is hard to avoid the impression that he has tired after swimming so far against the tide.
We know how difficult it can be to resist the power of a group and go against the tide, and we know that even parents have a hard time standing up to peer pressure.
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!
Swimming harder against the inevitable tide of forgetfulness than the Grey Ghost is Bruce Dern's George Sitkowski, governor of troubled, racially divided Scranton, a man who, upon his re-election, discovers that no one really likes him.
Instead, the hard yards of implementation and improvement with the tide against us and the wind in our face.
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».
It might be hard to stand against what is going to be a real tide, I suspect, especially if you're a small struggling firm and every penny counts, or if you're young and into technology and the latest things.