go against the flow

To do so is believed to go against the flow of nature.

The trip goes against the flow in the warmest months.

Almost 15 percent of runners, for example, go against the flow of traffic.

I'm going to go against the flow here.

It led the team to alter its blocking schemes to provide him with the opportunity to go against the flow.

"You almost feel like sometimes you have to go against the flow," Lockhart said.

Pratiloma is described as going against the flow and will affect the body; care should be taken.

Admittedly, they are going against the flow.

Talk about going against the flow.

I wonder if anyone goes against the flow?' '

Ms. Bozovic said the black sheep represented something that could be admired by "going against the flow."

To help cover the extra cost, Metro-North did away with a discount for passengers going against the flow during the morning and evening rushes.

Rather than go against the flow of traffic, they climbed the four ladders at the western end of the alcove and regained the mesa top.

His response was the single "Murderer", which condemned gun violence, going against the flow of the prevailing lyrical content in dancehall.

Novak goes against the flow to argue that Goldwater retarded the conservative movement by not finding room under his robes for the poor and the religious.

Another passenger who went against the flow was Emma Goldman, the anarchist who was deported in 1919.

She doesn't take stands, she doesn't go against the flow- again, unless it directly involved the homeworld.

Baker has avoided Regan's one main failing, which was trying to centralize decision-making authority too much - "going against the flow," as one staffer told me.

"What I liked about Senator Cooper was his willingness to go against the flow," Mr. McConnell said.

"In Chris's mind, he was always going against the flow," he writes, "standing in opposition to the lax and lenient standards that he found in the game."

When Metro-North raised its fares in March, it eliminated a discount it had long offered to passengers going against the flow during the morning and evening rush.

Going Against the Flow Thousands of New Yorkers travel to work against the Manhattan-bound commuter flow, and the number of such commuters is growing.

"She was always a rebel, going against the flow, but she always had a very big heart," said Carl Wendt, a childhood friend of Ms. Mundheim's.

We must not be afraid; we must be prepared to go against the flow and to lay down new rules for a moral code that respects all aspects of the individual.

STEPHEN ZIMMERMAN prospered in the toy business during turbulent times, mainly by going against the flow.