Sentence examples for 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.

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

In the spring, Democrats feared that Republicans had stumbled upon the one champion who might weather the powerful tide of dissatisfaction.

And, with their strikes and marches on Moscow, they enlivened the election campaigns when Boris N. Yeltsin fought the powerful tide of labor discontent over his economic reforms.

The Labour government's record in its first three years shows that it is rowing against the same powerful tide that led to the sharp rise in inequality under the Conservatives in the 1980s.

For an island nation surrounded by some of the world's most powerful tides, optimistic estimates say this form of power could - and should - play a big part in keeping British lights on.

However, she recommends starting with a club first as powerful tides on a river "shouldn't be underestimated".

But when the very wealthy do it, according to Schervish, it creates not just ripples but powerful tides.

That's the result of the powerful tides -- after all, this is part of the famed Bay of Fundy.

Scotland, with its rough waters, powerful tides and offshore islands, has become an important center for the development of both tidal and wave power.