7 sentences with 'tide'
Example sentences and phrases with the word tide and other words derived from it.
• « In 1989, faced with a rising tide of violence and an epidemic of crack addiction, the citizens of Kansas City, Missouri, adopted the Community Supported Anti-Drug Tax (CSAT), a small levy on the sale that raises $16 million a year. »
• « In both Austria and Prussia (as well as in the smaller German kingdoms) conservative forces turned the tide, as revolutionary coalitions wasted time debating the minutiae of the new political order. »
• « Japan, meanwhile, took advantage of the successful attack on Pearl Harbor and occupied dozens of islands throughout the Pacific. However, a series of Allied victories in 1942 and 1943 turned the tide of the war. »
• « By way of comparison between the war in the west and the war in the east, the battle of Alamein in Egypt, which turned the tide of German forces in that country, involved some 300,000 soldiers, while Stalingrad involved more than two million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilian combatants. »
• « In 1943, after the tide of the war had turned against Germany but long before the end was in sight, the "Big Three" leaders of Britain, the United States and the USSR met in Tehran to discuss the war and what would follow. There, Stalin insisted that the territory seized from Poland by the USSR in 1939 would remain in Soviet hands: Poland would thus be greatly reduced. Roosevelt and Churchill, well aware of the critical role played by Soviet troops at the time, were in no position to insist otherwise. »
• « In the early hours of the morning there was a roar as the skiff, being driven by the wind, waves and high tide, slid into the tent and entered the side of it, almost hitting three of us and knocking over our flimsy shelter. »
• « One day he was very lucky and, every time he caught a fish, he would throw it into a small pool that the tide had formed behind him, so that the animal would swim there until he was ready to leave. »