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rising tide

NOUN
  1. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
    a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune

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  • The first threat followed from a rising tide of exclusionary, intolerant ethnic particularism, the second from the blurring, ultimately homogenising force of global consumerism.
  • Then they returned to Dunyazade and displayed her in the fifth dress and in the sixth, which was green, when she surpassed with her loveliness the fair of the four quarters of the world, and outvied with the brightness of her countenance the full moon at rising tide, for she was even as saith of her the poet in these couplets: Tehran Winter
  • The average citizen feels completely powerless faced with the rising tide of crime and violence.
  • Despite occasional warnings about a rising tide of juvenile crime, the statistics show a determined resistance to inflation.
  • Instead of a rising tide lifting all boats, we're becoming even more of a two-speed economy. The Sun
  • This was a beautiful morning, with a rising tide and no wind.
  • Amidst the rising tide of reports, leaks and speculation that President-elect Barack Obama will offer the key Cabinet position of Secretary of State to Senator Hillary Clinton, pundits have detected remanent rivalry between their two houses. Michael Carmichael: Remanent Rivalry: Obama and Clinton
  • Now scientists have plans to save its remnants from the rising tide of development.
  • On the Shubenacadie River, the tidal bore and rapidly rising tide results in extremely turbulent waters.
  • Proudly, the three of us, me, Edge, and Lita, held the title belt aloft, floating in the rising tide of boos that were so richly deserved. The Hardcore Diaries
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