TAKING arms against a sea of troubles, many governments in Asia have long resisted the tide of unfiltered news, rumour and comment washing over their citizens via the internet.
Most commentators thought it raised a great alarm with its stentorian rhetoric about "a rising tide of mediocrity" and cold warrior comment that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre performance that exists today, we might well have considered it an act of war". Whew.
Most commentators thought it raised a great alarm with its stentorian rhetoric about "a rising tide of mediocrity" and cold warrior comment that "if an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre performance that exists today, we might well have considered it an act of war".
GM said it has sufficient liquidity for the remainder of 2008 in response to the Merrill comments, but the tide of negativity swayed investors, and shares were down 88 cents, or 7.5%, to $10.87.
After her announcement to withdraw, the comments turned into a tide of praise and thanks.
The congressman's comments are part of a rising tide of criticism of Trump from those living along the U.S. southern border from residents angered by the president's characterization of their communities as dangerous.
When asked what he could do to turn the tide of public sentiment in New York, Pavano was very firm in declining to comment on anything other than his outing Tuesday night.
In combining two journals, we are swimming against the tide of ever-proliferating new journals, a point remarked by Gregory Petsko in a Comment [ 2] written for us to mark the occasion and in which, with the verve and effrontery with which regular readers of his column in our sister journal Genome Biology will be familiar, he deplores such proliferation - inviting, perhaps, dissent.
Crépeau's comments came as Italy pressed the EU to devise concrete, robust steps to stop the tide of migrants on smugglers' boats, including setting up refugee camps in countries bordering Libya.
