Sentence examples for inexorable tide from inspiring English sources

For liberals, this sometimes plays out as a tendency to see resistance to all liberal policy as an inevitably losing battle against the inexorable tide of history.

In portraying decolonization as an essential step in the inexorable "tide of history," the French state absolved itself of responsibility for the revolutionary change it was effecting.

The strong consensus on environmental protection that once existed between Democrats and Republicans has yielded to the inexorable tide of partisan polarization.

But in the end, slogans from the No campaign such as "Two men can't replace a mother's love" could not prove enough to hold the day against an inexorable tide of change.

Wherever the Wide-Awakes went during that campaign season, their parades and the accompanying din of music and fireworks lent an impression of an inexorable tide changing the political landscape of America for all time.

Whether driven by fear – of death or litigation – ignorance, hope, or the imperative to "win" against disease at all costs, we sit as King Canute: foolishly, distressingly and impotently commanding the inexorable tide to retreat.

Perhaps he saw himself as the one who might have kept his finger in the dike, holding back the inexorable tides of ever expanding notions of equality that he feared so deeply.

Despite the inexorable mobile tide, Greenfield says there's little clinical evidence that the devices improve quality of life.

They were a tide inexorable.

It is as inexorable as the tides, as reliable as the setting sun.

Slower than sunspot cycles and as inexorable as the tides, pop-music nostalgia trails the present by about 20 years.