41. While McCain was strong among independents and Democrats, he could not overcome the flood tide of Republicans, two-thirds of whom backed Bush. 42. With the exemption, they thought they could somehow hold back the tide ( the Flood tide you might say ) of change forever. 43. Southern obstructions and a strong flood tide made the ironclads virtually unmanageable, while accurate fire from the forts played upon them at will. 44. The record is written in long-buried streaks of sand that were torn from storm-washed dunes by flood tides and deposited in the marshes. 45. "Three Seasons " is a wistful, rain-streaked elegy for a Vietnamese culture that is being swept away on the flood tide of globalization. 46. And so we didn't rest as long as we wished to, plunging off again into the flood tide and an afternoon of hard paddling. 47. "If it happens in the middle of the Bay on a flood tide in bad weather, it's going to be difficult to do anything. 48. Only his vision is bleak : a foreign, profit-driven " Them " destroying America with cheap labor, drugs and a flood tide of immigrants. 49. Officials fear the flood tide _ the river's fourth this year _ could cause sodden levees weakened by weeks of rain and floods to collapse. 50. But it was mainly a reaction to the ease with which he had diverted what was supposed to be the flood tide of their revolution.
