Sentences with phrase «swim against a current of»

Unfortunately, a new study suggests this hope may be swimming against the currents of human psychology.

Or is faith perhaps made too easy for me, precisely because I need not swim against the current of my own thought in order to be a believer?

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.

Tanabe: On my side, it allows for special attributes, such as each character having a special skill underwater, for example the ability to swim against the current of water.

Not exact matches

The entire universe has been dropped into the torrential flow of His grace and redemption and no matter how much we might swim against the current or splash around in our own vain attempts at self - glorification, we can not resist the direction that Jesus is pulling all creation toward.

If we examine ourselves, we must admit that our faith swims against the main current of our culture and of our own individual psyches.

I wanted to find out about those who swam against the racist currents of their time.»

If we are not careful here we could descend even further, I used to laugh when fans talked about relegation because of the players we have, but if we can't play as a team then things can go against us and even now we see how difficult it can be to swim against the current.

«While we congratulate the Lagos Governor Emeritus on his birthday, the PDP considers it needful, to forewarn him to study the current ambience of Nigerian politics as it relates to the failures of the Buhari Presidency and the fact that the citizens have since rejected this Presidency and the APC, so that Asiwaju will not find himself swimming against the tide.»

They are apparently able to detect the direction of current flow and swim against the prevailing current,» Dr. Kobayashi added.

The authors found that the turtles were swimming against the prevailing current in a statistically significant pattern at a rate of 30 cm / sec, which indicates an ability to detect the current flow and orient themselves to swim into the current flow direction.

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.

Salmon are one of the strongest animals in the world with an incredible ability to swim upstream against strong currents.

And despite the serious roadblocks mentioned above, there were plenty of women who swam against the current and altered the course of history.

The Teacher Education Council of State Colleges and Universities believes it may be swimming against the current, but has nevertheless adopted three resolutions urging «more rigorous» standards for teacher training.

While it's true that sometimes swimming against the current is the only way to get where you're headed, three new books show women making history in a variety of ways, from globetrotting, to taking on mysterious jobs, to smashing through political barriers — even if their behavior was sometimes less...

Suckered as usual by glimmering, glossy, American style nautical devices, and the peer pressure to much of a current for them to swim against.

Never try to swim against the rip current, always swim parallel to the shore until you are out of the current

Some currents to swim against, the weather was a little overcast so the colours were a little less vibrant underwater but plenty of fish to see.

Home to five different species of salmon, the river is most prolific in summer when thousands of salmon complete a four year quest, returning from the ocean to swim upstream against the current, returning to their spawning grounds.

We started the dive at the south point and swam against a moderate current toward the north, along the eastern side of the reef.

So those of us who focus on efficiency will have to swim against that current.

Now what should seem obvious from this and what I have learned is that innovation becomes much harder to stimulate when you are swimming upstream against the currents of firm processes that don't exactly encourage it.

In some songs, instruments sound a little cluttered and pressed together, as if each track is swimming against the current, competing for its own spotlight at the front of the soundstage.

The two key selling points of the Asus ZenWatch 2 are likely equally impressive, even though the $ 150 Android Wear timepiece swims against the current as far as its shape goes, adopting a rectangular form factor instead of a «perfect» circle.

On the first day of swimming against the current, and wearing an uncomfortable neoprene suit, she completed only four km as tears welled up in her goggles.