Sentences with phrase «major uphill battle»

«Some of the most isolated rural areas face a major uphill battle, with a broad area of the country emptying out,» Mark Mather, associate vice president of the Population Reference Bureau, told the Associated Press.

Here in San Francisco and elsewhere this means a major uphill battle for anyone who has not been pre-selected by the union to represent its interests.

An important bottom line in all this is that the big - picture changes proposed to the discretionary budget will face a major uphill battle in Congress this year, for the fact that changing the spending caps requires changing the underlying law governing them (the Budget Control Act).

You play it back, and if an already dominant and gifted Jones really was on the gear, and I think it's very probable he was dirty for both fights (levels were out there for first fight), then it was just a major uphill battle all the way around for DC.

Competing on price is a major uphill battle for SMBs on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, as mega-retailers offer shoppers deep discounts that smaller retailers simply can't afford in order to remain profitable.

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But it's certainly been an uphill battle for digital TV startup Aereo as it faced a federal lawsuit brought on by the major TV broadcast networks.

Having waited months, sometimes years, for a donor and survived major surgery, transplant patients face an uphill battle to prevent their immune systems from rejecting their new organ.

Any major awards recognition for The Grandmasters will be an uphill battle to obtain, but with The Weinsteins in their corner, anything is possible if deserving (some would argue its even possible with The Weinsteins when it is underserving).

As Zimmerman admits, they'd face an uphill battle for funding, as the major financial backers of the movement prefer supporting charter networks that can grow.

Still, the Titan faces an uphill battle against ever - fresher rivals and, warranty aside, struggles to stand out in any one major area.

Between the revolving door in the boardroom and the revolving door in the CFO's office, the company faces an uphill battle I'm pretty sure it will lose without a major overhaul of the business and the operating plan.

Now that's he's a proven force to be reckoned with and has eliminated a major stigma in the literary world, it's certainly less of an uphill battle in reaching his ultimate challenge — simply put — «My goal is to make authors and publishers who work with Smashwords more successful than those that don't.»

Microsoft and the Xbox teams are fighting an uphill battle though since they continue to feed into the narrative of a lack of major exclusives to support more expensive hardware in a time when they're lagging significantly behind the competition in unit sales.

Without stronger political leadership, it will be an uphill battle to achieve the major milestones envisaged for COP24 in Katowice, Poland, particularly on the Paris Rulebook.