Wounded by shrapnel from a mortar that exploded near his foxhole, Specialist Lemon kept fighting to protect his position against wave after wave of attack.
Bucharest has warned against a wave of xenophobia, following an assault on three Romanians by a mob of Italians in Rome on Friday.
Is this all part of the start of a backlash against the tidal wave of social media and its effects?
Some smaller markets have even managed to swim against the tidal wave of global selling in the first few weeks of the year--no easy feat.
Those who do not, like Marissa Mayer, are standing against a historical wave that is likely to prove too powerful for any company or CEO to overcome.
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Android's challenge for 2013 will be to defend its leadership, not only against Apple, but also against an emerging wave of hungry challengers that includes Microsoft, Blackberry, Firefox and Tizen.
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In a recent Reddit AMA he opened up about his feelings surrounding The WarZ, a game with such misleading product descriptions and questionable development that Valve felt compelled to pull it from Steam against an unstoppable wave of internet rage.
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Anti-GMO campaigners are clearly positioning themselves for another offensive against a new wave of GM crops and foods, with new pesticide tolerant grain varieties and a host of nutritionally enhanced grains, such as Golden Rice and drought resistant wheat, in their crosshairs.
And, you know, of course it could be a tidal wave going against the Republicans in November.
Skyrider's Kozel figures he is better off surfing the P2P wave than struggling against it.
But if it turns out to be a bigger problem the organization may have to file for bankruptcy to manage the wave of litigation against it.
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We'll hear about why Sudanese immigrants in Portland, Maine believe that the police are not doing enough to solve a wave of crimes against members of the community.
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"We're confident of those structures, although it's still very dangerous any time you're getting wave overwash like that, and wind and wave continue to press against those walls, " said Maj.
Lucescu's half-time teamtalk must have focused on damage limitation, but against a Barca team committed to wave after wave of attack and with a monopoly on possession it was an almost impossible task.
Brighton and Hove Friends of the Earth gave "conditional support" to the project but said not enough had been done to protect the coast, while Surfers Against Sewage feared it could reduce wave height by 22%.
As he said to me yesterday, he is concerned that the current wave of protest votes against excessive executive pay could turn out to be a passing fad - and he therefore wants a constitutional change that would lead to a permanent transformation of big institutional shareholders into properly informed and engaged proprietors.
There is a lot of talk about a great wave of shareholder activism against excessive executive pay, a so-called Shareholder Spring - and there has been a 100% increase in the number of rejections by investors of FTSE 100 companies' remuneration policies, from just one decisive rebellion, in some years, to a grand total of two this year.
He also sang against South Africa's appalling crime wave, apparently unstoppable by bodyguards, police or high walls.
The wave of municipal legal action against the gun industry gathered pace when Los Angeles, San Francisco and several other Californian cities announced that they intended to file suits.
Ray Valdes, vice-president of web services for tech consultancy Gartner, said that because the new wave of gTLDs went "against the grain of current consumer trends", his company expected most of them to fall short of their goals.
Now radiologists are touting radio-wave zapping as a viable fourth weapon against smaller tumors.
And times are still tough for middle-class Americans, who have been swimming against the current for years before this economic tidal wave hit.
Pope Francis is likely to follow the traditionalist path of continuing the teaching of his predecessor, who believed that the way to stem a wave of secularism was to stand defiantly against it, analysts said.
Pope Francis is likely to follow the traditionalist path of continuing the teaching of his predecessor, who believed that the way to stem the wave of secularism was to stand defiantly against it, analysts said.
"At that moment, the Gower Pride was hit by a large breaking wave on the starboard side and was thrown against the lifeboat, " said an RNLI spokesman.
In recent months, insurance regulators have been wrestling with what looks like a new wave in health-care scams, perpetrated mainly against the weakest of the flock: individuals and small-business owners.
This new wave of impromptu-activity apps will have to compete against the gold standard of location-based services: Foursquare, which is a free smartphone app that tells friends where you're hanging out.
The news is bad for Eli Lilly, too, as it is already struggling with slow sales on newer products and a wave of patent experations that has been worsened by recent losses against generic drug makers in court.
Some people suggest that Mr Netanyahu has deliberately stirred up this wave of speculation about an Israeli strike in an effort to stiffen international sanctions against Iran.
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