Sentences with phrase «uphill battle trying»

It's been such an uphill battle trying to defuse the stigma M A created on Realtors and the industry in general.

Especially if you're a recent graduate without much experience — you're in an uphill battle trying to prove to employers that you're a worthy investment.

They face an uphill battle trying to find the money to find a new place to live, replace their items and handle any legal issues.

That strategy worked when they were trying to get people to buy big SUVs, but it has back - fired, and now that the industry is trying to make money with smaller vehicles again, they're fighting an uphill battle trying to convince buyers that their products are worth it.

It doesn't exist on Switch yet, and Rockstar would have an uphill battle trying to make the existing fanbase on other consoles care for the Nintendo version, after decades of third parties just like them doing their best to ignore Nintendo, and convincing their fans to do so in the process.

It's an uphill battle trying to make a difference.

It has been an uphill battle trying to compete in the e-book space against Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Kobo and a multitude of subscription services.

«We have an uphill battle trying to convince mothers that formula is not only expensive, but coming at the expense of their families» health,» she says.

It can feel like an uphill battle trying to combat the vast power of the food industry, which spends $ 10 billion per year marketing to children.

It's no secret that since Jose Mourinho took over reigns at Old Trafford, the manager has been fighting an uphill battle trying to revamp his defensive department.

«The players are showing so much inconsistency that I face an uphill battle trying to get them to play at their best week in, week out.

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.

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If we're trying to do it all alone or if we haven't found strategies we feel we can emulate, it will be an uphill battle.

But regardless, our findings suggest that both presidential candidates will suffer from their past bad acts no matter how much good they advertise in the present, and therefore face an uphill battle in trying to change their reputations with voters before November.

Any political party advocating deficits and borrowing to spend on investments that Canadians (current and future) need would face an uphill battle in trying to get elected.

But Amazon is facing an uphill battle as it tries to court higher - end retailers — with their healthy profit margins and high average order size — to advertise or sell their products on Amazon's marketplace.

Now, as he wages an uphill battle for the Republican nomination, Perry is emphasizing his Christian commitment even more than in the past, trying to line up support from conservative Christian leaders and religious voters nationwide.

Arsenal have endured a tiresome season which has left us with a huge uphill battle to try and make the top - four.

After a difficult penultimate race day, the British duo faced an uphill battle to try and wrest gold from the grip of the Austrian defending champions Lara Vadlau and Jolanta Ogar, who started the final 10 - boat medal race with a near insurmountable 18 point lead.

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.

Often even trying to help is an uphill battle.

Trying to explain the huge benefits of rear facing can be an uphill battle.

There is a small group of parents who are trying to change the ways of food service at our school, but it seems to be an uphill battle.

In Sam Roberts» piece today about the uphill battle faced by the Republicans vying for the right to try to take on Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the following glaring passage jumped out:

Though she has made some headway with her father, Ivanka Trump faces an uphill battle as she tries to build support for her signature issues of affordable childcare and paid family leave, courting corporate executives and wooing lawmakers in hopes of generating momentum amid a packed legislative agenda in Washington.

Sean Bunny knows it's an «uphill battle» for a Democrat trying to unseat three - term incumbent Rep. Chris Collins in the deeply red NY - 27.

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.

Perry's story and Springer's emotional testimony highlight the uphill battle scientists have faced in recent years as right - to - try laws have been passed around the country.

Women have become victims to this notion too, and trying to talk them into taking up weightlifting in order to improve their physique has proven to be an uphill battle.

Looking at food labels and trying to regulate your sugar intake is an uphill battle, one that involves a lot of middle school math, which some of us expelled from our consciousness several decades ago.

They're just easier to keep fat on and when we — when you know what kinda body type you are, you just know that you have a more upward or an uphill battle if you're an endomorph and you're trying to get leaner, you're just gonna have more of an uphill battle and you may have a lot less latitude to cheat.

She contends that we are at the point in time, both information - and evidence-wise, when vaccine usage must be eliminated, as humanity already faces an extreme uphill battle to try to recover from the damage done by them to date.

Trying to lose fat in the presence of constant high insulin levels will force you to fight an uphill battle.

If they aren't interested now, you'll be fighting an uphill battle by trying to change their mind; you're more likely to embarrass yourself than convince them you truly are their perfect match.

While he tries his best to rise to the heights of his co-star, it's an uphill battle.

«Over the last four years, we have had an electrical - upgrade program underway trying to get ahead of the curve - but it is an uphill battle.

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.

In many instances the latter two were forgivable; however trying to use a tablet for day to day, study or business purposes with the first two deficiencies makes it an uphill — and often — inconvenient battle.

AT&T's exclusive agreement on the HTC Jetstream is likely to lead to an uphill battle in trying to draw customers away from the iPad 2.

Are you trying to get out of debt, but it seems like an uphill battle?

There is a no - annual - fee Aviator card, but trying to get an agent to downgrade Aviator cards is an uphill battle.

Once I tried looking past the frame rate issues, I faced another uphill battle: the controls.

Put simply, if your guild's best healer is cybering the guildmaster's girlfriend and gets caught — well, at that point, any narrative that the game tries to provide is fighting an uphill battle to get any kind of attention.

While a single player campaign may help a few more people get on board with the game, Metal Gear Survive likely has a tough uphill battle ahead as it tries to prove itself to fans who are no doubt still upset over the Konami / Kojima fallout.

M&M had to fight an uphill battle, because Mann resisted their third party review of his analysis at every turn, and tried to deny them access to his data and methodology, an absolutely unconscionable violation of the principles of science (particularly publicly funded science).

«It has been a bit of an uphill battle convincing [the law profession] as an institution to evolve, to try new things, to really start shifting to meet the clients» expectations rather than answer our own fears and needs as professionals,» Michelle Crosby said in a recent interview with National Magazine about how Wevorce is changing the way lawyers help families experiencing divorce.

It is not impossible to try to defend yourself by claiming that you didn't understand the statement you were signing, but that's an uphill battle.

Fortune's Roger Parloff writes that Ecuadorian plaintiffs face an «uphill battle» this week in trying to get a Canadian court to enforce a controversial $ 9.5 billion judgment against Chevron....

Car accident victims face an uphill battle when trying to obtain compensation from the at - fault party for pain and suffering.

There are a ton of companies trying to get millennials to invest — you may have seen TV ads for Betterment or Wealthfront or downloaded a spare change investing app from your local app store — but they're facing an uphill battle.