It's like a bath that never gets cold, until the incoming tide breaks its barriers.
Sfar briefly stemmed the tide, breaking to establish a 3-2 second-set lead before saving three break points, the last with a beautifully judged drop shot.
Whereas others predicted that world events would tip Brazil into recession, Lula reckoned that the crisis would amount to nothing more than a small tide breaking on his country's beaches.
The bays went into decline after a microscopic algae, known as the brown tide, broke out in 1985, tinting the water brown, killing native scallops and denying sunlight to eelgrass and other underwater plantlife.
The Crimson Tide broke the huddle for a third-and-goal at the L.S.U. 2 with 12 men on the field — Jones said he was the extra man — and the penalty pushed the ball back to the 7. Alabama did not convert on third down and had to settle for a field goal, making the score 15-13 with 12 35 to play.
Winds and heavy tides broke most of the 185,000 gallons of spilt oil into small patches, and pushed it away from San Cristobal.
These crude devices failed more than they worked: tides broke their moorings, leaks in their shells made the powder within useless, and they were easily spotted if the enemy knew what to look for.
On Stranger Tides broke many box office records upon release, and it stands as the 14th highest-grossing film of all time worldwide when not adjusting for inflation.
English Conservatism's rip-tide undercurrents break surface in the daily front-page vilification of Labour.
Then, when the tide finally broke around 4 p.m., everyone put down their forks, grabbed their surfboards and headed back to the water in choreographed unison.
