Sentences with phrase «stand against the tide»

These precious few have been equipped to stand against the tide of subjectivism that has overwhelmed our society - what the Holy Father, on the eve of his election, called the tyranny of «relativism».

In a political system in which candidates are largely responsible for funding and organising their own re-election campaigns, it is dangerous for parliamentarians to stand against the tide of public opinion.

Señor Bleszinski was almost alone in standing against the tides of protest.

Yesterday Pat Garratt, a writer I personally respect greatly, used his highly popular video game site VG247.com to make a small stand against a tide of hypocritical journalism bashing.

Not exact matches

«The tide is very clearly turning on this issue, and it's thanks to the growing coalition of interns and young workers across the world who are standing against this worrying employment trend,» Hyde told Business Insider in an email.

While many Christians in the past have acted directly contrary to those very clear biblical teachings (i.e., the Crusades, etc.), others have actually appealed to those very teachings in fighting the tide of a culture that would demean humanity (i.e., MLK, William Wilberforce, the Confessing Church's stand against the Nazis, etc.).

If the wartime Vatican had taken a moral stand against Nazism, the outcome might or might not have been different; the Church might have emerged from the war with the moral authority to stand against the secular tide that has swamped it.

What possible defense could these poor, humble Christians, without money, without social standing, without earthly wisdom, without political influence, find against the flood - tide of the majesty of Rome?

Greg Easterbrook's brief, masterful tribute to Charles Hartshorne in U.S. News and World Report (23 February 1998) similarly credits Hartshorne's ability to achieve his great philosophical work while standing outside the mainstream of philosophical thought, and swimming against the tide of intellectual fashion.

Any reasonable educated ones among these levels that differ in mentality, morals, ethics than others, would not be able to stand up against any waves and tides of corruption's and jungle laws, therefore are left out speechless with fears

We know how difficult it can be to resist the power of a group and go against the tide, and we know that even parents have a hard time standing up to peer pressure.

In doing so we can not only raise vital funds for Planned Parenthood, but also show the world's bullies that there is still a movement here willing to stand up and fight against the tide of regression that threatens to sweep away the freedoms of the most vulnerable citizens.

But the tide could be changing here; recently, an app was removed from the iTunes store after a successful petition was instigated, and we could see more people taking a stand against sites like this.

But in the 70s and 80s, headteachers who wanted to stand against this destructive tide had to be educational warriors.

With Election Day less than nine weeks away, Connecticut teachers, parents and public school advocates continue to wait for an indication as to whether any of the candidates for governor will truly stand up against the tide of the corporate education reform industry, including their absurd, unfair and expensive Common Core testing scheme.

Railing against luxury brands — and especially Porsche — for their willingness to gouge relentlessly on options is about as useful as standing on the beach and abusing the tide for coming in and soaking your shoes.

It looms over homes and stands as a stalwart against the changing tides.

Now eroded down to 6, these skinny buttes are courtesy the whittling effect of time and tide, carved out of the headlands to stand lone and huddled against the waves.

For Shasha, the work of unionization could serve as a precursor to a reorganization of the games publishing model as it currently stands, and may even turn the tide against doomsday predictions in the games industry.

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.

Today, as oil began flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) and new revelations about DAPL's parent company, Energy Transfer Partners, hiring a private mercenary firm to run a counterinsurgency operation against water protectors in North Dakota and elsewhere, Rising Tide North America will continue to stand in solidarity with movements and people directly affected by the climate crisis.

It might be hard to stand against what is going to be a real tide, I suspect, especially if you're a small struggling firm and every penny counts, or if you're young and into technology and the latest things.

From a different angle, however, the approach may be seen as a stand by the courts against a politically driven tide, prefacing a shift of approach generally as we face post-election austerities.