Sentence examples for hold back the wave from inspiring English sources

Playing King Canute and trying to hold back the wave of digital fashion stuff is doomed for failure.

Leaders often show realism by not trying to hold back the wave of history, or sometimes by riding it.

While most experts expect battles over voting restrictions in the coming years, they say that ultimately those efforts cannot hold back the wave of change that will bring about a multiethnic South.

Milk's support of Peron even while he was in prison on a separate pot charge enraged the right-wing minority trying to hold back the wave.

Milk's support of Peron even while he was in prison enraged the right-wing minority trying to hold back the wave.

In both cases, Wood and Kaiser appear a little like King Canutes trying to fruitlessly hold back the waves.

Given that differential, efforts to prevent North-South trade were as ineffective King Canute's orders to hold back the waves.

They are demanding more forceful steps to hold back the waves of people who flow across the Mexican border and are deeply opposed to anything that smacks of amnesty for people who have entered illegally.

If you've heard the Nordic legend of King Canute trying to hold back the waves, you might get a sense of what Ford Motor feels like right now.

An explosion of cultural colonialism in the form of hip-hop, pop, belly dancing, pole dancing, satellite television - which beams the dramas of other lives into African homes and the fashions of a recklessly cool world youth into African minds - has had the likes of Mr Lokodo scrambling to hold back the waves of moral corruption he imagines are coming his way.

After about a half-hour, I had a pretty good structure that was holding back the waves nicely.