Sentences with phrase «uphill battle of»

In the old steel town of Pittsburgh, Janice DeCarlo of Howard Hanna Real Estate Services recalls the uphill battle of getting other practitioners to bring buyers into her own neighborhood of Friendship.

«No other avenue and / or person has done what Mary Krauel has done for us during our uphill battle of our divorce process.

Qi is currently fighting an uphill battle of having many different technological hurdles to overcome to be a household name in wireless charging for devices.

The fact is that we had the uphill battle of convincing 50 - year old women that they could play games [in our early days].

For us in the veterinary world, it is often an uphill battle of, «my breeder told me this and my breeder told me that».

But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the while doing her best to care for the township she calls home.

If you decide that the world of social media self - promotion, long hours, exciting break - throughs and the sometimes uphill battle of self - publishing is not for you, shopping your book to literary agents and / or publishing houses is what you'll need to do.

Toyota has been fighting an uphill battle of limited parts and reduced production levels since the record earthquake back in March.

Even bearing in mind that this film was always going to be fighting the uphill battle of the «middle film» curse, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug still didn't quite live up to expectations.

With an uphill battle of a backstory (HBO, Steven Spielberg and Rachel Weisz were all involved in the project at one point before backing - out), it's a testament to everyone involved that this film got made.

Language: English Genre: Biography / Drama MPAA rating: PG Director: Michael Apted Actors: Sissy Spacek, Tommy Lee Jones, Levon Helm Plot: Autobiography of country music legend Loretta Lynn as she rises from poverty and homemaking to face the uphill battle of making it in the industry.

Nevertheless, I know that some of you feel frustrated during the initial uphill battle of getting the first few members to sign - up.

-LCB- Believe me when I say that I wholeheartedly understand how finding genuine vintage winter boots in one's size and price range can be an uphill battle of epic proportions, but that doesn't mean you have to toss in the towel completely.

Even if a device clears the hurdles of reproducibility and usefulness, he adds, its developers face an uphill battle of regulatory approval and customer acceptance.

So not only are the rules of the game screwed up, but in low - income neighborhoods, foodservice directors are fighting an uphill battle of child preferences because of what they kids are eating at home.

Then it'll be another uphill battle of entertaining and feeding the baby before putting them to bed again.

R&S purchase baskets provide the financial support of enabling a family to not have the uphill battle of trying to purchase both disposable diaper and cloth diapering while trying to create a cloth diaper stash.

So have aspects of the Terrible Twos, fighting the uphill battle of keeping a newborn from getting sick when your eldest has spiked a scary fever, cats seeming to punch into their night shifts for mayhem the second the whole house goes quiet at bedtime, and the proven fact that things will sometimes be simply out of our control in this household for awhile.

At the time Arsenal are facing the most uphill battle of Wenger's reign at the North London club.

Plus they know after an uphill battle of having to win 4 of the next 5 (3 on the road), their reward is playing the Warriors.

Not exact matches

While science tells us we face an uphill battle in changing ourselves and our institutions, it also offers plenty of reasons for hope.

Getting staff up to speed on new capabilities can prove an uphill battle and often the purchaser isn't even aware of all the benefits of the new system.

But Bing holds on to just a tinyfraction of the giant search market in China — less than 1 % — and it faces an uphill battle in attracting more users.

In the pursuit of the American dream, minority business owners often face an uphill battle.

Later chapters offer a detailed peek into how the Canadian media sausage is made, detailing the challenges of offsetting public funding with ad sales, the overwhelming importance of NHL hockey to the CBC's operating budget, Ceeb - style office politics and the uphill battle against the private channels of Corus, Rogers and Bell.

Sadly, many of these companies are still using antiquated, ineffective sales models and processes, leaving their sales staffs fighting an uphill battle.

The target on the backs of government and political organizations coupled with limited security budgets poses an uphill battle to agency security teams.

If you aren't wowing people within the first few seconds of meeting, you'll face an uphill battle when it comes to shifting their opinions.

«The AIC experience has left a very bad taste with a lot of people, and I think it's even more of an uphill battle than it would be for a startup, to rebuild that confidence, if it can be done at all.

Macron is also untested in the world of politics, so winning the presidential race could be the start of an uphill battle.

For Clinton, never a darling of young voters, this is an uphill battle.

It's his passivity about the very real lack of women in tech and the undeniable uphill battles faced by foreign entrepreneurs that ought to make people mad, not his ineloquent delivery.

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The company is also facing an uphill battle in Nadella's area of expertise, cloud services.

If you're not sure what the person on the other side of the table really needs, it becomes an uphill battle to find the opening that will convince them to bankroll your project.

This combination of a damaged personal brand, a lack of necessary electoral data, and local dissatisfaction over Brexit, meant that Goldsmith faced an uphill battle to hold onto his seat.

But groups lobbying to eliminate it have an uphill battle — polls in recent years show a majority of Americans still support the policy, even if it costs them sleep once a year.

But those looking to move on now — and there are increasing numbers of them, according to a report by the Financial Times, though Uber disputes this — may face an uphill battle.

«The public confidence is everything in this business,» he said, adding that the company faced an uphill battle persuading defense contractors to be open to sharing some sort of command and control with other drones.

The uncertainty of the market, the uphill battles with investors, and the constant search for top talent can feel overwhelming.

Entrepreneurs have an uphill battle to be successful, and making the decision to take on that risk takes a great deal of courage.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce unveiled a plan earlier this month to raise the gas tax by 25 cents — five cents a year for five years — a move the group acknowledged would be an uphill battle.

For startups not located at this epicenter of emerging companies, it might seem like an uphill battle, but it doesn't have to be.

In sum, business gifting during the holiday season is an uphill battle, and it's more likely that gifts in December will be seen as tokens, rather than a sincere show of appreciation.

The #MeToo movement is shining a light on stories of sexual harassment and discrimination that have remained in the dark for far too long, but women founders are still facing an uphill battle when it comes to securing venture capital funding for their startups.

«I'm wearing a new suit but it's not made of Teflon... we're still going to be taking punches,» Heins said, acknowledging that BlackBerry is in an uphill battle to restore its image — and its profits.

Still, despite giving President Obama credit for helping steer the country out of the recession, economists say he still faces an uphill battle to burnish his economic legacy before he leaves office in early 2017.

When tech disrupts a longtime industry like agriculture, its creators — often technologists or marketing gurus from one of the coasts — have an uphill battle to face.

When looking at Uber's nearly 6,000 U.S. employees, Uber faces an uphill battle trying to diversify a homogeneous workplace, where people of color tend to hold the jobs at the lowest rungs and are shut out of more lucrative and respected jobs in technology or leadership.

Analysts caution the firm still has an uphill battle to win over consumers in the rest of the world.