Sentences with phrase «pushing against the tide»

The Congress of Lincoln is a Congress you might recognize, a body containing a mix of big and shockingly small - minded people, some pushing against the tides of history, some complaining that the president is not ideologically pure enough or committed enough to be trusted.

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What can retailers do to push back against the rising tide of online shopping and declining physical store visits?

But there are strong tides of data pushing back against this idea.

Facing a market insurgency from plant - based alternatives, some dairy brands at Expo West looked for ways to push back against the tide.

But it would be easier for parents to do their job if they didn't have to push back against the relentless tide of marketing aimed at their children.

In the wake of the BP PLC Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, a rising tide of public push - back against the gas industry, resulting in a temporary moratorium on exploration in New York, prompted the White House to get involved.

The totalitarian President Snow (Donald Sutherland) pushes back against the tide with naked force, installing storm troopers («Peacekeepers») throughout the districts and acting with public violence any time even a whiff of uprising is in the air.

But there are strong tides of data pushing back against this idea.

The resources available to help anyone trying to make the effort are nearly nonexistant, and the ability of a small colony of ferals to pump out kittens faster than you can catch them is like pushing sand against the tide.

Frigates and support vessels are trying to hold a line against the tide but finding themselves slowly, irrevocably pushed back towards the Mothership.

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

Peer review is not perfect, but it is the first level of defense against the tide of well meaning (and not so well meaning) nonsense that people want to push.

«Just as the push for proxy access — the shareholder right to nominate board members to be included in the company proxy — started with a trickle and overwhelmed management opposition, we may see the same tide turning against bosses on a 2 ˚C scenario analysis.

Pushing back against this tide is New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who on July 21, announced that he was contributing $ 50 million to the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal Campaign.

Now, unlike the dominant tide in Canadian political culture against which Chief Justice Joyal wants to push back, I am not uncritical of the courts — of their power and of the manner in which they exercise it.

We are hooked together forever... Pushing back against the oncoming tide is pointless and impossible.