Yet, if you take a closer look, you'll find initiatives trying to turn the tide.

Their active leadership, and that of others, is needed now more than ever to turn the tide.

While it may seem hard to imagine that the speculative tide might ever turn against China, exchange rate pressures can turn in an instant.

But revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine were starting to turn the tide on these killers, and Indonesia s doctors were celebrated as heroes.

We believe that political will, carefully calibrated to produce the most desirable results for all, is a silver bullet, and that it will turn the tide.

Seaweed, ebbing in the tide.

A storm tide is a tide with a high flood period caused by a storm.

Moreover, the capabilities of the Malian army and those of other West African countries that are supposed to join the operation are too weak to turn the tide.

It seems highly doubtful that the tide of international opinion will turn against China to the extent that investors in general are seriously expected to shun the market.

MT So over here is low tide, and over here is high tide, and in the middle is the moon.

Every tide has its ebb.

A mistake in a presidential debate can turn the tide of public opinion overnight, as happened to President Gerald Ford in his debate with Jimmy Carter in 1976.

But the tide is turning against him.

So how will the world first and foremost, the main nuclear powers react to the Fukushima disaster? Will the tide truly turn, propelling the world towards nuclear disarmament and a future free of nuclear weapons?

A democratic tide seems to be sweeping across the Arab world.

But the last decade of the twentieth century was also indelibly stained by ethnic cleansing in ex Yugoslavia and genocide in Rwanda, and during the current decade the tide has seemed to turn against the rights cause.

The focus of the international community is now on the need to turn the tide of corruption, making corruption very costly and risky by punishing those who engage in and perpetuate corruption, no matter how highly placed.

Will the tide truly turn, propelling the world towards nuclear disarmament and a future free of nuclear weapons? Or will we witness attempts to downplay the calamity and return to business as usual as soon as possible?

Our duty is to rise to the occasion and reverse the tide.

A rising tide lifts all boats, conservatives like to say.

A left wing tide has supposedly been sweeping Latin America.

He opposed Gandhi, but the tide of Indian opinion was against him.

But revolutionary breakthroughs in medicine were starting to turn the tide on these killers, and Indonesia s doctors were celebrated as heroes. I wanted to be a hero, too, so I studied hard and enrolled in medical school.

It is not too late to reverse the apparently inexorable tide of bilateralism.

They, along with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, are helping turn the tide in favour of the Assad government, which in late 2012 was losing control of Damascus to rebel groups who were finding serious cracks in the government's inner cordon.

Yet the fear remains that membership in the Union will unleash a new human tide.

In Poland and Hungary, in particular, an underground tide burst forth demanding change.

The rising economic tide that is lifting China and India will lift them as well.

And only then could the US stem the rising tide of import penetration by foreign producers.

America cannot stem this tide by closing its borders but it can regulate the tide by legalizing and humanizing it, and by helping to create conditions in Latin America where life threatening emigration is not the only way out.

There is some reason for optimism that efforts to stem the tide of violence can succeed.

Since the debate is no longer on the grave and devastating effects of corruption on the enjoyment of human rights but rather on how to turn the tide against the perpetrators of corruption, the report deals with the value added of partnerships established to fight corruption.

I'm hungry so I'm going to make a snack to tide me over until dinner.

It calls for a refocusing of the international community on turning the tide against the perpetrators of corruption.

Newly developed tide energy technology was relatively inexpensive, ecologically benign and a reliable source of electricity.

It's like beachcombing, you know? Every time the tide comes in and out, you find some more shells.

Obviously, growth has not been inclusive the rising tide has left many boats behind. This is simply unsustainable.

Otherwise, when the tide comes back in, Mexico will find itself struggling to survive in shark infested waters.

So the rich world will, in a knee jerk response, erect ever higher barriers to stem the human tide.

A rising tide lifts all boats a receding one ignites a Hobbesian war of each against all.

Given the human right to betterment, CARICOM recognizes that we cannot stem the tide of the internationalization of labour flows.

As the tide of the war turned toward the former slaves, Napoleon abandoned his dreams of restoring France's New World empire.

And the rising tide of India's spectacular economic growth has lifted over 400 million Indians into a buoyant middle class.

Yet this is not enough to reverse a rising tide of violence and discrimination, compounded by the recent economic recession.

It also has an economy that is not growing sufficiently to stem the ongoing tide passing through Mexico to the US.