| It was a case of sink or swim, we were producing organic milk and the price halved. |
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| The state is optimistic that if people are faced with sink or swim, they will swim. |
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| It was sink or swim when we bought Lacken House and Breda qualified as a Sommelier a few years after. |
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| For 10 or 15 years beforehand, our regions and provincial towns had largely been left to sink or swim. |
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| We'll either sink or swim, so let's hope we end the seven days still swimming. |
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| Further down the scale, a new start-up company might sink or swim depending on whether its first outlet is in the best location. |
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| But eventually you're out there playing shows all the time, and you amass enough material, and you think it's time to sink or swim and take it seriously. |
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| It doesn't entirely matter whether you sink or swim, but it does matter that you dive in. |
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| For businesses large and small, the rule of the marketplace remains sink or swim with little or no government intervention coming to their aid. |
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| But when it comes to financial capability, we leave people alone to sink or swim. |
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| Private broadcasters sink or swim on their ability to attract viewers and listeners. |
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| Leaving the world's poor to sink or swim with their own meagre resources in the face of the threat posed by climate change is morally wrong. |
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| One of the lessons we need to learn from the dialogue we had over the 2011 Budget, is that in the EU we sink or swim together. |
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| If they are not well-motivated, they are only too happy to let the big bosses sink or swim by themselves. |
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| He left each researcher free to sink or swim and, although he occasionally gave advice or criticism, for the most part his policy was one of benign neglect. |
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| Films sink or swim by the combination of actors and writers and in this case the entire production goes belly up because neither team brings out anything truly remarkable. |
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| The members of this generation will sink or swim by their own efforts. |
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| All over America, single mothers with nothing like the advantages or prospects of Jeff, Lou and Tom are being told to sink or swim, and their children along with them. |
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| It is too easy for the Commission to make a decision that will decide whether the Szczecin and Gdynia shipyards sink or swim. |
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| Win or lose, sink or swim, one thing is certain we'll never give in. |
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| It is the city's decision and the citizens of Ottawa will sink or swim with that, but it is the city's decision to make. |
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| As far as the Communist Party itself is concerned, of which he is still the uncontested leader, his attitude seems to be that it will have to sink or swim. |
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| However, they constitute a marked shift from the osmosis response, where minority students are placed in an L2 classroom and left alone to sink or swim in this immersion approach. |
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| As the requirement in the case of many TFA teachers to enrol in certification programmes suggests, it is a mistake to think that the apprenticeship model is limited to sink or swim. |
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| But the world's poor cannot be left to sink or swim with their own resources while rich countries protect their citizens behind climate-defence fortifications. |
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| Be it in developing or developed countries, even formal pre-service programmes may have practicum experiences that can be characterized as sink or swim. |
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| But that's not to say you'll be left to sink or swim. |
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| In some education systems, teachers are unsympathetic to slow learners: they expect the children to sink or swim, and if the children sink and drop out, the teachers are not unduly concerned. |
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| It was either sink or swim, and it was the same in many of my jobs. |
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