Sentence examples for tides of progress from inspiring English sources

For all that they speak of changes over decades, the authors seem to underrate the political undertow that in so many places threatens to roil the rising tides of progress.

It's a race against time, a throwing up of a legal obstacle course in hopes of turning back the tides of progress and the inevitable changes that come with the maturation of a more diverse population, in every possible way.

The president needs to say to the world that we're choosing sides in this conflict and that we're rooting for the protesters against the people who are trying to beat them into submission and suppress the tides of progress.

It was his inability to hold back the tide of "progress".

For Mark Twain, the surest bulwark against the sterilising tide of progress became his pen.

Few senators in the modern era have done more to buck the tide of progress and enlightenment than Mr. Helms, who last evening announced that he would not seek a sixth term in the Senate next year.

The New York Times observed: "Few senators in the modern era have done more to resist the tide of progress," and Robert Pastor, whose ambassadorship to Panama was scuppered by Helms in 1995, commented that, "nothing Jesse Helms did in his entire career will enhance America's national security more than his retirement".

Are the demands of motherhood and family life destined to hold back the tide of progress?

"THIS absurd judgment cannot hold back the tide of human progress", activist Xu Zhiyong told the Beijing Supreme People's Court on April 11th, as his sentence of four years in jail for "gathering a crowd to disturb public order" was upheld.

While a few extra anglers and four-wheel-drivers may be one of the smaller threats facing the Kimberley coast, it is a telling example of the battle to hold back the biggest tide of all: progress.

The destruction came in many forms -- the encouragement of national leaders to forsake the old and embrace the new, urban renewal projects in the name of "progress," an unending tide of litter from the inhabitants, and the sheer stress of 15 million people picking away at a city built for three million.