Sentences with phrase «work against the tide»

It's hard to work against the tide but we do have the power to change the food climate and vote with our dollars for better food, at better prices!

Once an individual becomes drastically depleted of growth hormone, bettering the sleeping and exercise habits will only show minimal results and make person feel like he or she is working against the tide.

Parents can work against this tide, and it's really important that we do.»

Not exact matches

It has worked so far but I see the tide turning against these tactics and the claims that they use to justify their position.

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.

Knowing which firing mode works best against certain opponents can be the key to victory, and your special moves are able to turn the tide of war in a flash.

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.

For Shasha, the work of unionization could serve as a precursor to a reorganization of the games publishing model as it currently stands, and may even turn the tide against doomsday predictions in the games industry.

Over the past 20 years, Edinburgh born Callum Innes has emerged as one of the leading abstract painters of his generation, making work which stands defiantly against the tide of the quick fix that has dominated the sensibility of so many of his contemporaries.

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).

It wasn't easy for the Dublin - born Sean Scully to make the abstract work that he did in the 1980s; given the trend toward figuration at the time, he was paddling hard against the tide.

Green Works is a pretty popular brand; the same way Coke and Pepsi saw the tide turning against soda and began investing in waters and juices, The Clorox Company has decided to start a green product line to fight back against... well, Clorox.