Sentences with phrase «swim against the tide on»
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.
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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.
[5] http://www.feminis tsforlife.org /» [6] Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the issue of Abortion ed.
It's always hard to swim against the tide, and in the debate on homosexual lifestyle it feels, at times, more like a tsunami.»
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.
Like, «you can not swim against the tide» on this one or my personal favorite «we can not put the genie back in the bottle,» but the fact is Uber has changed the game.
«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.»
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.
Swimming against the tide of popular culture... the Future Feminist point of view has increasingly leaned not towards striving for equal status within a male construct or a male society, but rather to invite a redesign of society based on the principles of a feminine archetype in order to create the hope of a sustainable future for us all.»