Sentences with phrase «swimming against the tides of»

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.

For those who are swimming against the tide of Crypto you are fighting progress.

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.

The highly - desirable standards agenda is therefore swimming against the tides of several other governance pressures, each of which has its own valid claims.

Recently discovered remains suggest these species swam against the tide of increasing body size through time.

One lure to the fuller woman is the fact that they have to swim against the tide of popular opinion.

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.

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

Who will swim against the tide of Statism?

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

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.

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.»

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?

Not exact matches

If you're aiming to achieve early retirement yourself, Jason says, «You're most likely going to be swimming against a very strong tide of opinion!

[5] http://www.feminis tsforlife.org /» [6] Swimming Against the Tide: Feminist Dissent on the issue of Abortion ed.

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.

Practising Catholics in Western Europe are already swimming against the ebbing tide of a post-Christian culture.

Furthermore (and this bears repeating) you will hear no support for the likes of Francis Phillips, or any other lay Catholic swimming against that particular tide, from the English bishops, if for no other reason that it might cause the faithful to call to mind an (at the moment) dormant issue: their continuing support for the Soho Masses, at which homoerotically active homosexuals (self - proclaimed as such) regularly, and some say blasphemously, receive the Sacrament of the Altar.

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.

He was quite conscious that «a Catholicintellectual must be ready to swim against the tide which will flow against him until the end of time».

I want freshness and excitement and movement, and yet I am swimming against what feels like an insurmountable tide of writer's and photographer's block to deliver even a single post.

AC Milan 0 Arsenal 2 After all the weeks of swimming against the tide, the games when their heads dipped, their bodies felt heavier, Arsenal grasped -LRB-...)

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.

It's certainly an arguable case, but it is not as though he is swimming against the great tide of public opinion by saying Churchill did great things against the Nazis.

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.

«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.»

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.

Swimming harder against the inevitable tide of forgetfulness than the Grey Ghost is Bruce Dern's George Sitkowski, governor of troubled, racially divided Scranton, a man who, upon his re-election, discovers that no one really likes him.

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

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

Self published authors swim against the tide and it's only a matter of time before they get beaten and give up.

Despite the lackluster sales of its e-reader, Sahin still feels that digital is the future and that «you can not swim against the tide».

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.

Regular readers of PS3 Attitude will know, that to say I enjoyed Final Fantasy XIII is a massive understatement; in fact, I even swam against the tide and described it as «one of my favourite games of all time» at the end of 2010.

This idea swims against a tide that has been gathering strength since the post-war period, when artists began to work seriously at shrinking that separation between art (that is aesthetic intervention) and life (the everyday, social relations that describe what this exhibition regards as our supposed purgatory in contrast to a heaven of artistic concerns).

The speed of this childbearing revolution, swimming hard against the tide of our essential biological programming, rates as perhaps our greatest collective feat to date.

The evidence is there for anyone who has the time, patience and inclination to swim against the public tide of government - sponsored apathy.