Sentences with phrase «swimming against»

i know i am swimming against the current in this comment section, but i madly adore that wisteria lamp.

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.

She had a stellar meet at the 2007 World Championship, pulling in five gold medals, an exhibition race swimming against US legend Michael Phelps — and setting an unofficial world record — and then her much - awaited wedding to her fiancé just days later.

Bourke is also swimming against the tide because these laws will undoubtedly lead to more Aboriginal people being thrown into prison.

As an extremely picky agenda enthusiast and avid handwriter, I'm interested to see what doors the Smart Planner opens for people who often find themselves swimming against the tide re: digital calendars.

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.

Recent cases however suggest that international forum shoppers may now be swimming against the tide.

Bloomberg would seem to be swimming against the tide.

But Japan and Ex-Im are swimming against the tide.

How did a ragtag group of skeptics swimming against the tide of public opinion, even big business, get elected to all those offices they hold across the country, yimster?

I had been swimming against the current my entire life, and I gradually learned to swim along with it instead.

Swimming against the current is a hard but necessary choice that is made when the current is about to take you over a waterfall.

De Niro Sr. was intense, self - confident and «often swimming against the prevailing mainstream,» according to a 2004 book Salander published about him.

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.»

But then abstraction itself became an orthodoxy, and those who wanted to paint nature or the human figure found themselves swimming against the tide of earlier revolutions.

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

Behind the ambiguous female is a possible allusion to Munch's Madonna: a pattern of light - green sperm swimming against a darker green ground.

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

There are a few commercial developers still producing worthy adventure games (good for them), but they are swimming against the tide.

Fighting mobile gaming is swimming against the tide, so grow alongside it instead.

Swimming against the prospect of clever diplomacy and careful use of traders and relationships that some of the civs introduced in Rise & Fall offer, we selected the Mongols to play, one of the new old civs brought in with the DLC.

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.

Weak swimmers or younger children may tire quickly swimming against the current.

Constant paddling; either for catching the perfect wave or swimming against the current will toughen and tone arms.

If the market performs poorly for that 30 years, your investments are unlikely to do well because you are swimming against that current.

One of the reasons his investments have performed so well is that he's comfortable with swimming against the stream and choosing investments whose potential may be overlooked.

Swimming against the current and buying what everyone else considers repelling requires a somewhat strong psyche.

It's just too hard to keep swimming against the stream.

Swimming against a tide is a purpose in life.

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...

This year it's the opposite: I'm surrounded by contradictory patterns, one swimming against the tide of the other.

In a 1995 interview, NAACP Minneapolis President Bill Davis admitted that his organization was «swimming against the tide.»

-- Key Learning Community — Swimming against the tide, this K - 12 Indianapolis school emphasizes exploration and deep understanding over rote memorization.

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.

Furthermore, students explore social and moral issues such as «swimming against the tide» and «being different,» through the story of Oskar Schindler.

But I'm swimming against the tide here; school districts represent nine out of every 10 authorizers, though they authorize relatively few schools.

He's surlier and less communicative than in the earlier films, swimming against an undertow of hidden sorrow.

I will say though that craftsmanship and swimming against a tide of mediocre movie making are consistent trademarks I'd guess no - one would object to having applied to them so I'll plant my flag in both of those camps for Mr. PTA.

As someone who, swimming against the tide, doesn't care much for french comedies, imagine my surprise to find «Heartbreaker» so damn entertaining.

For those groups it's like swimming against the current.

You end up «swimming against the current,» and this doesn't last forever.

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.

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.

Since the animals were first listed as endangered, the human population of Florida has more than tripled, meaning that rescue efforts are swimming against the tide.

But with Donald Trump or Ted Cruz heading the ticket, Toomey might be swimming against undercurrents too powerful to resist.

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

Austria, Denmark and Germany scrapped wealth taxes in 1997 and several other European countries have followed suit, it seems bizarre that in Britain we are considering swimming against the tide.

Politically speaking, Ms. Nixon is swimming against the tide.

«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.»

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.