Sentences with phrase «uphill battles»

Understand your toddler's new found independence and strong will that emerges around age 3 can really make for some uphill battles.

When you can't get key defensive stops and come out with so many key gaffes, you take very winnable games and turn them into uphill battles.

The honest recounting of friends prepared me for the enormous uphill battles that came with the joys of motherhood.

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

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.

There are few people better equipped to fight uphill battles and get things done.

Clearly, small businesses like restaurants, individual medical practices and other proprietorships still have an uphill battle.

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

But it will likely face a steep uphill battle.

It seems like Mueller's team would have been very careful about crafting that search warrant, so that will be an uphill battle.»

«You can have the smartest person that works tirelessly day and night on a business venture but if there's no opportunity behind it, it's going to be a pretty big, uphill battle.»

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.

Apple's push into mapping has been an uphill battle.

Lefkofsky is facing an uphill battle, but so far has been showing some positive signs.

Medical marijuana patients are bracing for an uphill battle in their bid to convince the federal government to exempt medicinal cannabis from excise taxes.

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

Even for four - time U.S. Olympic star Lindsey Vonn, making a living from downhill skiing has been 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.

If you don't nail that you are going to be fighting an uphill battle.

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 all these projects face an uphill battle.

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

Google is facing an uphill battle in cloud services.

Technology — like society — is always changing and always improving, which makes staying relevant a constant uphill battle.

He knows it's an uphill battle: Republicans appear to have the votes to pass the legislation through the House and Senate, and are aiming to get the law on President Donald Trump's desk as early as Wednesday.

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.

Immigration reform faces an uphill battle in the Republican - controlled House.

Despite Schmidt's enthusiasm, Motorola is fighting an uphill battle against Samsung and Apple.

«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.

In appealing to video advertisers, Flipboard could be facing an uphill battle because giant competitors like Facebook (fb) are also bulking up in video, and offer much larger reach.

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 an uphill battle, but she says it is well worth the fight: Finding strong funding partners, she explains, can allow female entrepreneurs to create brands that matter.

But it could be an uphill battle.

«I was worried that I would have an uphill battle to convince these dinosaurs in the toy industry that this concept would be desirable for the modern consumer,» she says.

Remember, cigarettes are specifically designed to addict people, so you're facing an uphill battle when you encourage someone to quit.

Of course, creating a business out of nothing is always an uphill battle.

The service has an uphill battle in physical stores because it is not accepted everywhere and is not widely viewed as a significant upgrade over physical cards.

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

In explaining the system to his crew, McLaughlin faced an uphill battle.

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.

Describing Valve's new product, which is now entering beta testing, as a «latent threat,» Piers Harding - Rolls, analyst at IHS Screen Digest, says that for all its accomplishments Valve faces an uphill battle.

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.

Despite executive departures, Essential faces an uphill battle in an already - crowded U.S. smartphone market dominated by Apple and Samsung.

The Parti Quebecois» uphill battle may be steeper than it realizes.