1.   And with their strikes and marches on Moscow, they enlivened the election campaigns when Boris Yeltsin fought the powerful tide of labor discontent over his economic reforms.

2.   But Ridge is swimming against powerful political tides.

3.   Despite the powerful tide of institutional money washing over retail stocks, distinct choices are apparent everywhere.

4.   For three days they met in San Francisco to help one another learn to better swim against a powerful tide.

5.   Next we took the Levis ferry across the St. Lawrence, which was jagged with ice floes drifting upriver toward Montreal with the powerful tide.

6.   The company is swimming against powerful tides in more ways than just its sumptuous headquarters, set in a village-like campus.

7.   With a powerful ebbing tide in place to potentially set the boats over the starting line early, Larson played it safe.