The phrase "advancing tide" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used metaphorically to describe a growing movement or trend that is gaining momentum or influence.
Example: "The advancing tide of technology is reshaping the way we communicate and interact with one another."
Alternatives: "rising wave" or "growing current".
The government's eventual capitulation was in large part due the advancing tide of colonial freedom.
Eli represents 'the advancing tide,' which Emerson said 'creates for itself a condition of its own.
At first, all the dancers stay on the edges of the space; next, like a slowly advancing tide, they make progress.
Nowadays, the land is given over mostly to truck farms and brambly family estates, fiercely held against an advancing tide of condominiums and golf courses.
He played Andrew Jackson in The President's Lady, Buffalo Bill Cody in Pony Express, and in The Naked Jungle he fought against an advancing tide of ravenous ants.
I was happy for him to sleep in our bed, eat off my plate and gnaw my slippers, while my husband wanted rules and was appalled by the advancing tide of squalor and chaos.
The French language, like Paris, has attempted, through its Academy, to retain its purity, to fight the advancing tides of franglais and international prefabrication.
The addictive Monster Mayhem (Chillingo, iPhone) is one such title, with players using a variety of weapons to hold back advancing tides of zombies, werewolves and assorted menaces.
He was unable to halt the advancing Allied tide, however, and was soon relieved of command of the panzer units, which, under the command of Josef Dietrich, were subsequently encircled and almost completely destroyed in the Falaise pocket.
He noted that his country was "advancing against the tide of a global downturn and overcoming years of weak fiscal management to become the fastest-growing economy in the G-7 and likely the only one to remain in surplus this year".
In 2011, the city was affected by advancing seawaters where tides reached 1.6 m and hit the seawall (i.e. broke low walls along the beachfront in Ponta da Praia) and other types of infrastructure (i.e. obstruct of pedestrian or vehicular traffic) causing a power outage (Pupo 2011).
