| Who would eat something that has spent its life treading water around sewage outlets? |
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| Less than 30 seconds later, Maready was treading water as she watched the red beacon light of her tail rudder spiral deeper into the dark abyss. |
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| Running against the wind was like treading water, running with the wind was like bowling along under sail. |
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| Russell should be a permanent fixture in the top 25 of the Order of Merit, but he is treading water. |
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| I certainly wouldn't have picked her for the job, and even thought her marked for demotion or treading water. |
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| We are treading water but have increased recruits by a very small percentage. |
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| He had been swimming and had started treading water when he started getting into difficulties. |
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| Her head popped up from under the water and she laughed, treading water as he walked through the waves out to her. |
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| She emerged from her dive and started treading water as she turned herself around to look at the room. |
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| James bobbed up first, treading water and grasping for a sizable slab of lumber. |
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| You are still just treading water, gulping brine into your empty heart and lungs. |
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| I tried to catch my breath, maniacally treading water like a child learning how to swim. |
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| Those in the middle are working longer and harder, are treading water as fast as they can, but are not getting any further ahead. |
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| But Stravinsky was – like his great contemporary Picasso – a restless, protean genius, incapable of treading water. |
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| Here it's the heroine who's the ambitionless slob, a grad-school dropout treading water as a waitress and living in a pigsty of an apartment. |
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| Unfortunately, the length of time elapsed suggests we are still treading water as far as this matter is concerned. |
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| So while the CMA of Saint John appeared to be treading water over the 1990s, the urban core was actually losing ground. |
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| After the introductions, our team got down to the challenge of a timed 400-metre swim followed by ten minutes treading water using only our legs! |
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| Surface in teams of two in order to minimise time spent treading water at the surface. |
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| The majority of Canadian families are actually falling behind or simply treading water. |
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| When I resurfaced, Jordan was treading water next to me with a huge grin. |
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| We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy. |
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| We were treading water in a large water basin in a generator room. |
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| So when you see the elites floating away in their yachts while you're barely treading water, before you get angry, take a moment to feel their pain. |
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| Meanwhile, the agriculture talks have also been largely treading water. |
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| The accident pilot and passengers, who were treading water, boarded a raft that was dropped on the water and were hoisted aboard the helicopter a few minutes later. |
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| Instead, New Brunswick was a place where far too many families were treading water in a provincial economy illequipped to offer much in the form of a life jacket. |
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| Is it people who are treading water in parliamentary terms? |
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| I'm swimming right now, but at best, I'm treading water. |
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| My criticism is not that the government is not doing anything, it is that the government is treading water rather than leading forward and aggressively doing something substantive in dealing with these issues. |
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| It feels rather as if we are treading water and not getting anywhere. |
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| As the sun rose, I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of a pen stuck in a pewter inkpot, rising out of the haze to the north of where I was treading water. |
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| After a day of treading water on almost all issues, delegates became visibly nervous as the deadline to report to plenary on Friday was almost upon them. |
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| Are there many ordinary New Brunswickers who are barely treading water in the new century, or has hope been restored in a province that was badly hit by the last North American recession? |
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| Overall, consumer confidence is barely treading water. |
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| The water temperature and the additional physical exertion from treading water without support of the life vest increased the rate of body temperature loss, which probably expedited the onset of hypothermia. |
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| At best, we are treading water in a marginally sinking sort of way. |
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| The debate on Community patents, which has rumbled on since 1975, and seemed to be treading water for the last several years, looks like it is moving again. |
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| While Jürgen Klopp has transformed BVB into one of the most admired clubs in Europe since 2008, Schalke have been treading water furiously with six different coaches in charge. |
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| Just as The Hobbit didn't require three films and the Twilight series was pushing it with five, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. |
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| Just as e Hobbit didn't require three lms and The Twilight series was pushing it with ve, this second movie in the Divergent series feels as if it's treading water. |
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