Sentences with phrase «pulling oars»

The series of ads contain footage of a boat carrying a hotchpotch of individuals pulling their oars in different directions.

We should all be pulling oars in the same direction.

As a senior vice president of a Fortune 50 firm told us, «They can and do sit in the boat without pulling the oars... and that may be worse than leaving.»

I can't even pull an oar!»

The image contrasts with a boat with carrying a hotchpotch of individuals, all wearing different colours, all pull their oars in different directions.

I wanted to pull my oar and they just made it so much easier not to worry.

If we look at the schools that have grown the most in the last five or ten years, schools that have made really significant improvements for their students in learning, these are the places that have had teacher communities that have been willing to come together and pull their oars together towards the same coherent goals.

Not exact matches

Pulling solely on the oar of capitalist individualism results in nihilism, as it did in the Gilded Age and in the 1920s and «80s, and is no more satisfactory than trying to steer society by the oar of Christian communitarianism.

I remember at a circuit assembly once the speaker said «As parents it's the hardest thing to save our children and it's like being in a life raft with your panicked child overboard and we want to just bop them on the head with an oar so we can pull them on board to safety...»

For many of us, the effort has been nearly all - consuming, as we pulled on the oars together to bring about this long - sought conservation outcome.

The force generated by an oar being pulled through water has been well studied by rowing coaches.

But when they were out in rougher waters on the open seas (rather than the calm inland waterways), the Vikings would have needed to pull in the oars and raise the sails to get moving.

It helps when we know that the oars are all pulling the boat in the same direction, not round and round.