Sentences with phrase «lead against the tide»

When A&M was jumping out to a 20 - 0 lead against the Tide, the Aggies attempted 14 passes; on four of them (29 percent), Alabama brought more than four pass rushers.

Not exact matches

Three first - half return touchdowns (Christion Jones punt return, Vinnie Sunseri interception return, Jones kickoff return) gave Alabama a big enough lead against Virginia Tech that the Tide didn't have to take any chances in a 35 - 10 win.

When Watts, a junior, pulled a groin muscle early in the Nov. 10 game against Mississippi State, Zow led the Tide to a 24 - 17 comeback victory.

• 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?

AAC ACC Big 12 Big Ten Pac - 12 SEC Butch Dill / Associated Press Alabama DL A'Shawn Robinson had two sacks Saturday against Kentucky and leads the Tide with four this season.

Worse still is an American exchange student, Tracy (Greta Gerwig), with a crush on Atari, and who leads a singlehanded campaign to turn the tide of public opinion against Mayor Kobayashi, thus reifying old stereotypes about Japanese passivity.

It is imperative that teachers in IL are prepared to lead the profession against the tide of intentional belittling by our elected state officials in both the executive and legislative branches.

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.»

Take a walk down the steps leading to the Algar Seco rock formations, where you'll hear the waves crashing against them at high tide.

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.

Until now, it's been difficult for many cities to measure and report their emissions, said Andrew Steer, president and CEO of the environmental group World Resources Institute: «If we want to turn the tide against climate change, cities will need to lead the way.»

To conduct the research, a team of scientists led by John Fasullo of the US National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, combined data from three sources: NASA's GRACE satellites, which make detailed measurements of Earth's gravitational field, enabling scientists to monitor changes in the mass of continents; the Argo global array of 3,000 free - drifting floats, which measure the temperature and salinity of the upper layers of the oceans; and satellite - based altimeters that are continuously calibrated against a network of tide gauges.

Having fought industrial wind development for years in my community, I have come to understand that only a grassroots rebellion, led by rural environmentalists against the wealthy, powerful, special - interest, urban fake - environmentalists will be able to turn the tide.

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