Sentences with phrase «uphill slog»

Along with having plenty of their own incumbents to defend, that's part of the reason Democrats have always had a steep uphill slog to take back the Speaker's gavel.

Again, it's testament to Namco's design that when playing the track backwards it did feel rather different — downhill sections became uphill slogs, and vice versa.

Waist high cover is central and capturing the big guns requires a slow uphill slog while enemy fire rains down.

First, it's a bit of an uphill slog to get all the old research reports at each firm categorized, input and discoverable.

That made the rest of February an uphill slog for the index, which finished down 3.9 %, its worst month since January 2016.

It is, without a doubt, an uphill slog for an enterprise to make sure everyone is up to date, which is why companies are increasingly more willing to absorb the expense of issuing company - controlled devices to workers.

The much smaller report from the Board of Directors raised the specter that getting qualified people going forward to take the personal risk to their reputations and fortunes and hours in the day to sit on the Risk Policy Committee of JPMorgan that oversees the Chief Investment Office may be an uphill slog.

Legal experts said Howe's arrest and the testimony that led to it would sap his value as a credible narrator of the alleged bribe scheme and leave prosecutors with an uphill slog to make their case.

For Ms. Teachout, a congressional campaign will be less of an uphill slog.

But it was always an uphill slog for Mr. Liu in an oddly - shaped eastern Queens district where Mr. Avella, despite his alienation from the political establishment, remains popular.

He noted that the idea of a supercritical carbon dioxide power cycle dates back to the 1940s, but steam cycles were already very efficient, well - understood and cheap, creating an uphill slog for a new power block to catch on.

Ahead of a White House meeting with Gary Cohn, the former Wall Street executive who is President Trump's economic adviser, Baker acknowledged in a Washington press briefing that his Climate Leadership Council faces an «uphill slog,» despite what he framed as the proposal's populist appeal.

The first half of South Solitary is a bit of an uphill slog.

It's been an uphill slog, but it looks like Minnesota is going to catch up with Wisconsin and Illinois.

What is the line between a healthy relationship (that requires diligence and patience) and an unhealthy union (that feels like an uphill slog)?