Sentence examples for a powerful tide from inspiring English sources

But they're swimming against a powerful tide.

But Mr Brown is swimming against a powerful tide of sleaze stories concerning his cabinet colleagues.

For every Gordon Brown, George Galloway or Charles Kennedy saying otherwise there is a powerful tide to blame London – not Salmond's seven-year rule at Holyrood – for Scotland's ills.

Their leader has, in the words of Charles Cameron, a researcher with the Center for Millennial Studies at Boston University, "done an extremely good job of placing himself astride a powerful tide of hope and fear -- the longings of people who want to find emotional and religious meaning in science and biotechnology".

Those who suggested that training could still be effective if it was better targeted and more 'strategic' such as McCourt and Sola [ 36] were swimming against a powerful tide.

The leaked emails are swimming against a very powerful tide -- that of Donald Trump's absolute meltdown into misogyny.

Mr. Bloomberg's campaign is part of a larger attempt to turn back a powerful cultural tide, reinforced by $10 billion a year in tobacco industry marketing muscle, that has glamorized tobacco and insinuated it into our sense of fun.

And that's because I have detected a powerful new tide of public interest in relocalising our food systems, emerging at a cellular grassroots level throughout the land.

With a powerful ebbing tide in place to potentially set the boats over the starting line early, Larson played it safe.

In the April 2012 issue of Sky & Telescope magazine, physicists note that a powerful spring tide may have helped push icebergs into the path of the Titanic.

After a few months, Ms. Geraghty came home, as though pulled in by some powerful tide.