Sentences with phrase «like swimming against the current»

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

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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...

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

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.

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.

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