Sentences with phrase «work against the current»

He was working against the current.

It's important to absorb this information so that you can follow the general route through the dive site and see the major features without having to work against the current at any point.

A lot of the artists who were in this collection were from my generation, and I saw that I had been working against a current.

Not exact matches

Current proxy rules work against shareowners who are trying to vote in alternative and independent board members, but it is shortsighted of firms to ignore owners» interests.

Sadly, the term evangelistic is used more often in other ways, but in that usage it meant bringing truly good news of God's salvific work in the world against the background of realistic assessment of what our current activities were doing to the Earth.

But we in the dominant group can not wait for that to occur before reflecting on the ways in which the current order works against the common good and how that might be changed.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

Gabor Figeczky, Advocacy manager, IFOAM — Organics International and Alisher Yuldashev, Rural service providerIFOAM - Organics International, ACF (Action contre la Faim / Action Against Hunger), the European Union and the governments of France and Kyrgyzstan shared experiences from their current work on the integration of nutrition challenges in... more

Michael Croft, President of the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) will argue at a St James Ethic Centre debate on 4 March 2014 that foreign investment in agricultural land and infrastructure works against Australia's national and best interests unless the regulatory system and current model are changed.

Powered by billions of earthworms working rapidly in concert with beneficial microbes, the BIDA ® System will begin processing Fetzer Vineyards» wastewater during the 2016 harvest season, accruing energy savings up to 85 % over current wastewater treatment technologies and optimizing water conservation measures in support of the fight against climate change.

i don't think Wiltshere an Ramsey are compatible against the top teams with our current squad unless one of them either plays on the wing or at no10, and seeing that both players prefer playin in CM but neither are DMs it won't work at the top level.i think its either or

because woodley is not a fighter that can sell a fight in terms of his character or persona or promotional skills... not all of his fights were boring but the last 2 were too tatical for the average casual fan to pay for a PPV, hence all the promotional work would be on Nate, basically nate making Tyron rich, tyron against RDA on current UFC cards would no way reach 300K....

Challenge Success recognizes that our current fast - paced, high - pressure culture works against much of what we know about healthy child development and effective education.

Our current fast - paced, high - pressure culture works against everything we know about healthy child development.

In that speech (a full copy of which you can view by clicking here), I offered some suggestions on how each of us — whether we be parent, coach, official, athletic trainer, clinician, current or former professional athlete, sports safety equipment manufacturer, whether we were there representing a local youth sports program, the national governing body of a sport, or a professional sports league, could work together as a team to protect our country's most precious human resource — our children — against catastrophic injury or death from sudden impact syndrome or the serious, life - altering consequences of multiple concussions.

Our experience is not unique and we know that the current high pressure, fast - paced culture works wholly against the development of healthy children.

But as the always - incisive Melanie Warner writes, the real reason the packaged food industry is fighting tooth and nail against those new guidelines is because, lo and behold, they might actually work, as compared to the current, utterly toothless self - regulatory scheme:

Nevertheless, he was one of the biggest proponents of my current adventure at Oxford and always had time to hear about what I was working on — even taking the time last September to have a coffee with me when up against a impending deadline.

The latter has set itself against the development of any new nuclear capacity, but trying to work out how far that will dictate the future of electricity generation draws us into a complex area of the current devolution settlement.

I will work with, and not against, our police officers to make our communities safer,» he said, referring to the current administration's treatment of county police, which later by phone he called «demoralizing.»

According to the source, de Blasio's aides are working with 1199 SEIU and other unions, as well as staff to Gov. Andrew Cuomo, to craft a list of people who could run primaries against I.D.C. members if they do not promise to drop their current power - sharing arrangement with Republicans and return to the traditional Democratic caucus.

But if Stavisky did not want to run against Avella, who once worked as her chief of staff before rising through the political ranks to his current seat, she could always move somewhere else within District 11.

The councilman, who is running for his third term and speaker of the city council, filled out a questionnaire prior to receiving his endorsement from the club in June 2017, where he replied «no» to whether he had or will «in the future endorse or financially support any candidate for public office or current elected official with a track record of working against LGBT equality.»

While being grateful to the current Minister of Health Kweku Agyeman Manu for ensuring that the «right thing» is done, the President of KOSSA maintained that he was unjustly victimized due to the fact that he was perceived to be working against the former administration.

«Although this is preclinical work, the strategy warrants further investigation because it holds promise as a simple, economical way to overcome the major limitation of current flu vaccination strategies and may provide broad protection against seasonal and pandemic influenza,» added Elliott.

Working with Amnesty International and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, AAAS documented past attacks by the government - backed Janjaweed against civilians in Chad and Darfur, Sudan, in 2005 and 2006, and is building methods for tracking current attacks.

In addition, «when the work to be performed changes, that change must be evaluated against the current hazards analysis to determine if the hazards analysis continues to be sufficient.

My research suggests that current career pressures work against meeting this need.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

If you are currently working towards your national qualification, utilise this exam to know where you stand in your current level of training, benchmarked against European standards.

Her current work continues to focus on characterizing the mechanisms that enable immune responses against cancer.

Immunologists are working on vaccines that don't need to be reformulated each year: «universal vaccines» that induce broad immunity, protecting against current and future strains of flu by mechanisms that are not just dependent on antibody.

But the truth is that a movie about deeply personal obsessions can't work if it doesn't have some of its own, and the prevailing mood of The Current War is indifference; there's no point listing the crimes against the past committed by Michael Mitnick's dramatically inept script, which ends with a tacked - on, emotionally manipulative paean to the wonders of cinem - ah that anyone who cares about film history will likely find insulting.

5:00 am — TCM — Casablanca Against all odds, one of the best films Hollywood has ever produced, focusing on Bogart's sad - eyed and world - weary expatriot Rick Blaine, his former lover Ingrid Bergman, and her current husband Paul Henreid, who needs safe passage to America to escape the Nazis and continue his work with the Resistance.

Multiple heroes strong or weak against certain types of enemy, each with their own distinctive personality and weapon set, each working well or not so well with other agents; even in the current build, you can unlock gun and character skins to show off your abilities.

Specifically, members of the National Association of Administrators of State and Federal Education Programs (naasfep) lobbied their Congressional delegations to vote against the consolidation of existing categorical education programs into new block grants to the states, to maintain those programs at their current levels of funding, and to work actively against the passage of President...

If digital learning is to advance beyond the pilot stage, it needs to work within the current system of public education, not against it.

This disease has a chronic impact on the communities affected, but there is no current vaccine against whipworm, and existing treatments don't work very well and are too expensive for many areas.

Violence against women is not just what is happening to individual women, we see that the educational, economic, social and cultural aspects of the current systems, at local, national and global levels must intentionally work with a transformational agenda to be able to achieve this urgently needed change, that not only robs women and societies of peace, but does not allow the qualitative development for the new paradigm to become a reality in our life time.

Although this bit of auto history might have been forgotten during the current aerodynamic - car revolution, Topaz and Tempo were among early examples of autos shaped to work with the atmosphere, not against it.

Although this bit of auto history might have been forgotten during the current aerodynamic - car revolution, Topaz and Tempo were among early examples of autos shaped to work with the atmosphere, not against it.No longer a trend setter, Topaz has settled into a niche as a conservatively styled sedan with a fairly conservative price range of $ 9,850 to about $ 13,000.

With the current political landscape of a very liberal President advocating we make war against a regime using WMDs... well, we can only pray that Howey's work stays fictional.

For instance, making the sale contingent upon the sale of your current home could work against you — especially in a seller's market where the homeowner could have plenty of other offers to choose from.

Working capital calculations such as Net Current Asset Value (NCAV) and Net Net Working Capital (NNWC) provide valuable metrics with which to measure against price in order to identify bargain stocks.

Jae Jun at Old School Value has updated his great post back - testing the performance of net current asset value (NCAV) against «net net working capital» (NNWC) by refining the back - test...

3.1 We will undertake a comprehensive review your current financial situation, including an analysis of your income (all the money that comes into your household), your essential and priority expenditure (things like rent or mortgage, gas, electricity, food, transport to work and any repayments towards loans that secured against an asset such as your home), unsecured debts (such as credit cards, overdrafts and personal loans) and assets (things you own that have a saleable value, such as property and cars).

There may be one or two sections on this dive where you have to work a little against the current but the rewards can be great.

The Media Molecule team was up against esteemed competition in the videogame category, with each nomination tellingly having worked on new IP for the current generation of consoles.

I can see the for and against re: fiver, but I think it just comes down to what current position you are in as an artist, in terms of people being aware of and engaging with your work, and where you feel your times is best spent.

Three currents merge and reconfigure in Julio Larraz's work — as do the waters of rivers, clouds, and ice he often paints — and these are: still - life turned into theater, theater seizing the moment in rebellion against plot, and character defying its persona.