Sentences with phrase «turn against the wave»

Everyone had to paddle together, he said — on a synchronized count and with similar strength — otherwise the boats would «turn against the wave and be unceremoniously tossed back on the beach.»

Not exact matches

Only after the bill was accepted by 67 % of the voters, did its opponents turn openly against it, waving objections that no one had raised before concerning provisions that Parliament, rightly, had seen no reason to put on the ballot.

It's a turn - based strategy RPG that has you gather five Marvel superheroes, villains, or in some cases, a mixture of both, and pit them against the teams of other players (asynchronously, alas) or waves of AI opponents from the movies and comics.

But CCSSO may have helped turn the tide against what appeared to be a mounting anti-assessment, anti-accountability wave.

That was certainly true in 2010, when a voter backlash against Obamacare triggered a wave of Republican victories, especially at the state level, which in turn set the stage for major progress on education reform priorities in 2011 (rightfully dubbed «the year of school choice» by the Wall Street Journal).

I was turning the page when I heard something else, something that barely registered above the sound of the engine and the slap of the waves, a sound so soft that the scrape of paper against paper almost drowned it out.

In her Final against Kauai's Tatiana Weston - Webb, the women traded the lead back and forth, down to the very end, after Gilmore let Weston - Webb nab a last, potentially heat - turning wave, with under two minutes left.

Enemies charge you with a renewed vigour and with extra numbers, turning the final wave of every game into a desperate last stand against the enemy that never failed to have me grinning from ear to ear.

Our resident nautical expert Captain Bradley was telling us to turn port and starboard as we sailed through the waves trying to defend a ship against two enemy ships.

Special Weapons vary in function, but often allow you to turn the tables against the opposing team with huge waves of ink!

In December, 2010, accusations against falsified presidential elections brought rise to a wave of peaceful protests throughout the country, which were, in turn unmercifully retaliated against by police and government forces.