Sentences with phrase «swam against the tide with»

There were false prophets saying peace peace in Israel's history and only a brave few that swam against the tide with warnings of something quite different — that Israel was apostate and about to face judgement which came to be true.

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With the Fed signaling a rate hike, policymakers would be swimming against the tide of central bank accommodation around the world.

The report made for good reading, to be sure, but with the stock trading near an all - time high going into the release, it was unable to climb further and swim against the tide of profit taking that ensnared the broader market on this particular day.

If the theology of the Hartford Appeal — with its conventional theism, careful political neutrality and total lack of christological content — represents the trend of the «70s, then I'll be glad to swim against the tide for a while.

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.

But with an economy still struggling to recover, rent control laws due to expire in New York City and a tax cap wanted by a large portion of the public, Senate Democrats may be trying to swim against the tide on the issue.

Swimming against the tide, Fraga managed to support democratisation without formally breaking with Francoism, in order to unite all middle class and conservatives and also attract Francoists to democracy.

But the problem with asserting a new and stronger Britishness could be that it is swimming against the tide.

By GEORGINA FERRY Swim against the tide in medical research, and your colleagues may regard you with suspicion.

As Munger has said, sometimes the tide will be with us and sometimes it will be against us, but the best thing to do is to just continue to focus on swimming forward.

But as Munger said, sometimes the tide will be with us and sometimes the tide will be against us, but the best thing to do is to just continue to swim as competently as we can.

In a world where «slow travel» seems to be the preferred travel style I'm swimming against the tide, but I think I'm probably representative of many people who combine travel with their work and family commitments and want to experience the maximum in the short travel time they have.

Then the show crescendos with a vast room of Lucian Freud paintings that leave you swimming against a tide of tired, undulating flesh.