Sentences with phrase «hold back the tide as»

The Swiss central bankers appear to have decided that they might not be able to hold back the tide as a new surge of investors poured their savings into the franc.

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All the packaging manufacturers can do is to hold back the tide for as long as possible while developing the next generation technology.

Those of us who held even the slimmest hope that changes in presidential administrations might stem or perhaps turn back the tide have had those hopes dashed as waves of corporate - backed reforms pushed by Republicans, Democrats, and billionaire philanthropists continue to batter kids, teachers, parents, and schools.

Rather than trying to hold back the tide with agency pricing and draconian DRM policies, traditional publishers need to figure out how to survive and thrive in a publishing world which is changing just as dramatically and even more rapidly.

I'd say it was the low tide holding back the people flow because as soon as she did start flowing back the numbers jumped to between 25 — 30 spread across the whole line up.

Just as King Canute could not hold back the incoming tide, King Coal can not hold back the rise of the seas — or the clean energy transition.

The Clean Power Plan's defenders treat it as if it were a seawall holding back a tide of environmental ills.

And we certainly won't have the power to hold back rising tides as they encroach on our shores.