swim against

someone who decides to swim against the current of today's consumer society with the desire to find or to return to nature.

Originality, perhaps eccentricity, and a willingness to swim against the tide mark out the business-builder.

On one side of the forest was a broad, deep river, the water flowed so rapidly that very few were able to swim against the stream.

If the croc is swimming only a short distance, it will swim against the current as well.

Let's see how the wind blows, then decide whether we should swim against or with the stream.

Even the wisest and most well-meaning people will give up if they have to swim against the current in the organizations in which they work.

While courageous Chinese journalists continually test the boundaries, they swim against a regulatory tide.

I soon realized that the ratfish 's tendency to swim against the flow might help to answer my questions.

River bank which embellish along the silk and the grain, I swim against the stream.

If the prince had persuaded whales to swim against Waterdeep then, perhaps, the city was in trouble.

AOL has to swim against a strong tide to keep its position in internet advertising.

She had to swim against the current .

Sometimes, it is better to swim against the tide. I am firmly opposed to smoking and drinking, although all my friends do.

He advised me not to swim against the tide.

Plankton is essentially anything living in water that is too small to swim against the current, including krill and algae.

Swim against the stream. Don't hate your enemy, it affects your judgements.

It reminded me once again how hard -- but important -- it can be to swim against the tide.

Don't swim against the current.

He hasn't the courage to swim against the stream.

Tesco's offering in America will swim against this tide.

I want to be a salmon Swim against the tide to reach you In about the time I see you I will be smiling on my way to heaven

To do a job you hate is to swim against the tide;