Sentences with phrase «uphill battle for someone»

It was a pretty uphill battle for me or the other challengers (there were four of us) to convince people that anything needed to change.

The last few months have been a painstaking uphill battle for Parent Revolution, the group of organizers and McKinley Elementary School parents trying to turn one vastly underperforming Compton campus into a charter school.

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.

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.

It's still a genuine uphill battle for La La Land to overcome two major obstacles going into the Oscar race.

Yet shoppers stayed away in droves, and JC Penney is now faced with an even bigger uphill battle for its survival than it faced before.

ICYMI: In anticipation of another tough uphill battle for the majority, the Senate Democrats are marshaling their resources, focusing on stockpiling cash for competitive races rather than paying down their remaining debt from 2010.

Recording the movement of the human tongue during speech has been a 50 - year - long uphill battle for researchers trying to better understand speech impediments.

only reinforces / highlights the apparent disparities between the two it just becomes that much more of an already uphill battle for Capcom.

Then again, the current saturation of the markets in the US and UK might make it an steep uphill battle for them, whereas the Tolino Alliance still has an unsaturated market as its battlefield.

«My overall opinion of this strategy is that it is a total uphill battle for them as there are so many other brands, and the Nokia brand has lost appeal over the last years,» she added.

No matter how topical, relevant or pressing your content is, you're often fighting an uphill battle for the audience's attention.

«It's an uphill battle for us,» says Suneet Tuli, Datawind's co-founder and CEO, from his home in Brampton, Ont.

Getting accountants and auditors to follow the rules, as well as their spirit, isn't easy — keeping them honest has been an uphill battle for going on 80 years.

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.

«It's always an uphill battle for anyone to win a libel suit,» Drechsel said.

Nokia's been facing an uphill battle for relevance in the consumer space ever since the company threw in the towel on smartphones.

PSAC members who work on the front - line to preserve our environment have been fighting an uphill battle for too long.

But it's an uphill battle for the struggling chain.

Getting products to retailers is increasingly an uphill battle for consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies.

So i think we are going to have an uphill battle for top4 finish yet again, let alone winning the title.

It was certainly going to be an uphill battle for John Hurley and co. here..

Team Maione was facing an uphill battle for the second straight Game.

Coaching at the Academy has always been an uphill battle for Dick Szlasa, who has directed Navy's lacrosse program for the past three years.

Chase Utley was the most notable, but for the most part, it's an uphill battle for kids who weren't athletic enough to wrest control of the shortstop position at Iona College.

It was an uphill battle for us.»

The junior guard was out of the game — and it was going to be an uphill battle for his teammates to pull the game out.

3 matches and we are behind Chelsea by 4 points!!!! It's an uphill battle for 4th now.

It's just been an uphill battle for them all season and as Rookies you have to feel for them..

Shakhtar Donetsk attacker Alex Teixeira has been a target of Chelsea for months now, but could face an uphill battle for the $ 55 million - rated star.

This is an uphill battle for them now though and this is their first berth in the quarter finals of the Europa League.

In fact, it's safe to say that it's been an uphill battle for Marquette just to get to 6 - 5 on the season, considering that four of Marquette's wins have come in overtime and the fifth was a result of a goal scored in the final 10 seconds of regulation.

With as little experience as Marquette had on offense coming into the season, it was going to be an uphill battle for that at - large bid.

It was always going to be an uphill battle for the Seagulls to remain in the Premier League.

Leaving your house at this time may prove an uphill battle for you and for your Twins.

Preventing hearing damage may seem like an uphill battle for parents who have children who always have earbuds or headphones on.

Convincing a teen to go counseling can feel like an uphill battle for many parents.

There was just a hint of discord last night, however, as Republicans were forced to choose between remaining here in Rye Brook to attend state GOP Chairman Ed Cox's convention dinner, featuring Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, (who, by the way, is facing an uphill battle for re-election himself this fall), and driving to Long Island to pay their respects to the powerful Nassau County GOP chairman, Joe Mondello.

Nevertheless, the district is, like the rest of NYC, dominated by Democrats, and would be an uphill battle for any Republican — especially a political neophyte, even if his last name is Giuliani.

Arizona's more conservative and older electorate represents an uphill battle for legal recreational cannabis and polling has suggested a split between proponents and opponents of Proposition 205.

Replacing Rikers Island with new jails scattered throughout NYC is going to be an uphill battle for de Blasio.

Capitalist democracy isn't a level playing field — it's always an uphill battle for the left.

Long faces an uphill battle for the remainder of the race.

Lorigo told me and Nick Reisman at CPAC last month that the door remained open to Grisanti, but also made clear it would be an uphill battle for him to win the local party's endorsement.

He acknowledged that such a run would be an uphill battle for a little - known upstate Republican assemblyman against powerful downstate Democratic incumbent like Cuomo, who's sitting on close to $ 26 million in campaign cash, even though his poll numbers have been trending downward.