Sentence examples for strong tide of from inspiring English sources

The fact remains that he is setting himself against a strong tide of declining social identities.

SeaWorld has been swimming against a strong tide of negative public opinion since the documentary Blackfish surfaced in 2013.

In other authoritarian states like China, Vietnam and Laos, the party, rather than any particular dominating individual, is in charge.Standing firm against what one hopes is a strong tide of history is Hun Sen, Cambodia's newly re-elected prime minister.

Jose Legaspi, a real estate developer and a member of the board of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, said he believed that the talk here all week of a loss of identity with the sale of The Los Angeles Times was really code for the resistance of many people to the strong tide of ethnic change.

Published in September 2004, Roth's novel centres on an alternative history in which aviation hero Charles Lindbergh is nominated as the Republican party's candidate for president in 1940 and goes on to defeat Franklin D Roosevelt on the back of a strong tide of popular support.

The national polls show a tide of opinion in favour of Democrats, but broken down by regional or sub-regional level, especially in the areas where the Democratic party needs to do well to pick up House or Senate seats, that strong tide of opinion disappears into individual eddies and pools in which it is harder to discern where the flow is heading or how strong it is.

Individuals and organizations across the country are dedicated to disrupting cycles of violence, against the strong tides of history, poverty, and dysfunction.

He grew up in a Mexican city along the Rio Grande, where children learn to swim against the strong tides of the river, as BuzzFeed News pointed out.

So, on Thursday afternoon, when the brief lull between the strong tides of the Hudson passed before the crew of the Giulio Verne could get the plow moving upriver, Mr. Stern, the chief executive, remained sanguine.

But with the canal's wooden and concrete embankments, the strong tides of fresh diurnal doses of oxygenated water from New York Harbor were barred from flowing into the 1.8 mile (3 km) channel.

Although Stroma lies only a few miles off the Scottish coast, the savage weather and ferociously strong tides of the Pentland Firth meant that the island's inhabitants were very isolated, causing them to be largely self-sufficient, trading agricultural produce and fish with the mainlanders.