Sentence examples for a tide over from inspiring English sources

If all works out for the best, then free trade will roll like a tide over the world and everyone will benefit, and U.S. investors will make a few extra bucks in China.

The second emergency appropriation he had to ask for was for the state Urban Development Corporation-a temporary tide-over loan of 178 million dollars.

For a while Cyprus was tided over by a loan from Russia.

Snacks should just be a tide-me-over until I can get to a meal I will enjoy.

"There seems to be a tide washing over local government where councillors think residents don't like busking, when all evidence suggests people love it," he says.

Sometimes, she told me, the flicker gave way to a more forceful kick that rippled beneath her hand and then spread like a warm tide over her body.

Splintered, factioned and sometimes just plain inert in the face of a conservative tide over the past few years, labor has found its influence on Congress steadily eroded.

And it demands that you do that over and over, against a tide of disagreement, settling for half measures rather than no measures.

President Kibaki was facing a tide of anger over renditions and falling further behind in the polls.

Still, the findings may temper a tide of gloom over the prognosis for the nation's youths, whose obesity rate has tripled over the last three decades.

How real is this feeling that Brazil has a tide of fashion sweeping over its beach culture?