Sentences with phrase «like swimming against»

There are still so many obstacles, feeling like swimming against the tide, but reading your posts gives me a good push to continue.

For those groups it's like swimming against the current.

Being an attached parent to a newborn can often feel like swimming against a very strong current.

Not exact matches

In events like the Bay Challenge, you're swimming against men half your age and winning.

It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

All them Northerners keep saying I can't keep slaves and saying how public opinion is changing towards owning humans, but they can all just go with the flow if they like, i'll be staying alive swimming against the current for as long as my racist arms will carry me...

I want freshness and excitement and movement, and yet I am swimming against what feels like an insurmountable tide of writer's and photographer's block to deliver even a single post.

Just taking these small steps can help arm yourself and your family against an illness while you're away, so you can worry about more important things like choosing between swimming in the ocean or the pool

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.

Just walking down the high street makes you feel like a salmon trying to swim downstream when another thousand salmons are swimming up against you.

When my first child was born I often felt like I was swimming against the current.

After a month or so I started to feel a little suffocated, like I was struggling to swim against a current of looky - loos and commentators.

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.

As for state state parks like the one at Grafton where folks go swimming, I'm not against raising the fees... a little... but not a lot.

The world's largest private - sector coal firm, along with other U.S. giants like Arch Coal Inc., Cloud Peak Energy Inc. and Alpha Natural Resources Inc., are swimming against a powerful current of regulatory and economic change that has shrunk markets and driven down stock prices to unprecedented lows.

However, swimming doesn't require an abundant amount of equipment, it naturally protects against nasty injuries like stress fractures, and somehow the sanctuary of the water offers a modicum of privacy — a security that seems to belie the scrutiny of others.

So you know how like you're swimming Brock, if you're to move your hand to the water like the faster or the harder you push your hand through the water, the harder the water is gonna push back against you.

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.

When I read, I like to dive In the sea of words and swim Feet kicking fast across the page Splashing words against my skin.

I often say that life is like a river and it makes no sense to swim against the current.

Some would also swim in circles around us, like a cat rubbing against our legs.

The very same King that's been quite merrily cloning match - three games and the likes of Peggle for the past couple of years and has somehow found themselves swimming in all of the money, yet despite this have decided to come out fighting against games with the audacity to include the words «candy» or «saga» in their titles.

I always felt like I was a little fish swimming upstream against a swarm of sharks in the business.