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Though he expects Canadian growth to pickup in the second half of the year, spurred in part by robust business investment, a U.S. economic slowdown is a head-wind weighing on his thinking, he said.

Canada's Top Banker Says Stimulative Policy Still Needed Jon Hilsenrath 2011

In heaven there is no head-wind, there are no buses that do not signal, no wanton pedestrians, no pot-holes, no bonking, and all the bikes glide effortlessly while being infinitely compliant, both vertically and laterally.

Some Sad News BikeSnobNYC 2009

Madínat-al-Sín; but after we had left it, as we fared on in all cheer and confidence, devising of traffic and travel, behold, there sprang up a violent head-wind and a tempest of rain fell on us and drenched us and our goods.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

He sent it below with his card, on the morning of the head-wind; and I was long troubled with the idea that he might be up, and well, and a hundred times a day expecting me to call upon him in the saloon.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

There is something so exhilarating in the motion of a sailing-vessel, always provided she is neither rolling about in a calm, lying to in a gale, or beating against a head-wind.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Add to all this, the clattering on deck and down below; the tread of hurried feet; the loud hoarse shouts of seamen; the gurgling in and out of water through the scuppers; with, every now and then, the striking of a heavy sea upon the planks above, with the deep, dead, heavy sound of thunder heard within a vault; — and there is the head-wind of that January morning.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

Every one of these excellent organizations face a tremendous head-wind to even get their message out to the American public.

Commonweal Institute And Building The Progressive Infrastructure 2007

The incessant groaning, splitting, and heaving, and the roar of the water through the scuppers, as it found a tardy egress from the deluged deck, was the result of merely a “head-wind” and “an ugly night.”

The Englishwoman in America 2007

We had a head-wind and a rough chopping sea, which caused the little steamer to pitch unmercifully.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

At three in the afternoon, when the current turned, we started; but having a head-wind, made slow progress.

The Malay Archipelago 2004