How To Use Uphill In A Sentence
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The trails should provide a skiing flow so there aren't too many long uphills or sharp turns at the bottom of steep downhills.
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The people who inhabited America at that time were fighting an uphill battle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Faced by those constraints, the soldiers of the Royal Anglians face an uphill task and the official three-year time limit is already looking decidedly niggardly.
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Think of it as a repeated uphill sprint requiring constant firing of the gluteal muscles.
Times, Sunday Times
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As she turned uphill, a dark-red Daimler slid by, and blew its horn at her.
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Uphill it's no slogger either, with barely a jiggle of movement from the shock, even with the bike set to 'freeride' amounts of sag.
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The oldest professional law enforcement cadre is the new Woolworths. on May 29, 2009 at 1: 10 pm uphilldowndale
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The 16-time grand slam champion faces yet more uphill climb as he takes aim at the next step on the title ladder, the 77 trophies of John McEnroe.
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You have to gear down when you drive uphill.
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As skiers did prior to machine grooming, we sidestepped and herringboned uphill to pack down the powder and skied down several times.
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Further uphill is the planter's house, transformed into an interpretation centre built on the remains of a stone quarry discovered in 1966.
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So I did that, but the world is a great snowball rolling downhill and it never rolls uphill to unwind itself back to nothing at all and nonhappening. posted by Jim Chen at 11:40 PM
A kiss is just a kiss
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A stunning goal from Jean Makoun gave the French side a narrow victory over the La Liga outfit in midweek, meaning the Spanish side face an uphill task in the second leg of their tie to remain in Europe's premium competition.
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He even overtook Denmark's Mickael Rasmussen, who had started out six minutes before him but had a disastrous ride on the tricky and technical route's sharp bends, fast downhills and tiring uphills.
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Tomorrow will be even worse, but you can always count on the Aussie Champion to put on a show: on uphill finishes, he never fails to ride a wheelie across the finish line.
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From that point onwards, it was an uphill struggle for the visitors.
The Sun
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We moved farther up to the beech woods before striking off uphill, where the ground showed signs of wild boar.
Times, Sunday Times
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In downhill skiing, your whole foot is secured in a binding on the ski; in cross-country, your heel is free, making it easier to glide along the flats and uphill.
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It looks like being uphill all the way until the end of the season for Barnet.
Times, Sunday Times
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I used my column in an uphill battle to educate gays and straights about the horrible realities of AIDS.
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He stops, lets out a throaty chortle, and starts trucking straight uphill, cutting the switchbacks.
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Ascending a mountain on skis requires bindings with a heel release, and ‘skins’ made of mohair or nylon which let the skis glide, turn uphill and grip the snow.
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Life is a uphill battle, and you will net win if you are not prepared and lack the ability and perseverance. Dr T.P.Chia
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Was it the fact that large portions of this walk were uphill and conducted at great speed?
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But, for all their efforts, Ireland now face an uphill struggle and the probability is that the fates will not be on their side.
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And for those of you all who don't ski, the term uphill skier means Scott, as you kind of heard explained there, Scott was the guy behind the other man as they both came down that ski trail.
CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2007
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It has long been an uphill struggle for new art in Italy, the country Marinetti bitterly castigated in 1909 as a gangrenous land of ‘professors, archeologists, ciceroni and antiquarians.’
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The uphill appear brake failure, should be timely reduction low block, keep the enough power up to the top parking.
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Pushing through the proposed reforms has been an uphill struggle from the start.
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In the end, I had to push the car uphill while my wife drove rather gingerly.
Times, Sunday Times
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I got hungry and walked in uphill to the road and as my head got up enough to see the downside of the ridge another hunter on the opposite side in his tree stand had his rifle pointing right at my chest.
What is your closest call to a bad experience while hunting?
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Uphill, downhills, through rivers and through underbrush, this unknown Kiwi never faltered or stopped.
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The terrain was the most difficult part, the downhills and uphills and the constant changing of pace.
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Then resist the temptation to go uphill to get into freer spaces.
A BOOK OF LANDS AND PEOPLES
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For ascending turns, rotate your uphill ski first.
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Most walking routes went uphill a lot and I struggled.
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Most of my graduating students in science are having an uphill battle getting a job, and many are accepting positions they would not have considered five years ago.
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Sanders and his team (all other team members are from other Canadian universities) have faced an uphill battle in completing their project.
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You know, those things I drag myself over red hot oozing lava and pointy steel blades uphill both ways in blizzard and howling tropical storm to create.
More POV - and a reflection on how to take a compliment
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The uphill trek out was tough and after an arduous six hours the final climb was in sight.
The Sun
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Four newly acquired acres allowed the club to stretch the par-4 17th to 495 yards, uphill and blind off the tee before it doglegs downhill to a green.
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It also allows for more pattern contact to improve uphill grip without reducing glide.
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And their battle to get Europe moving again, thanks to what's going on around them, may now be much less of an uphill one.
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Several drinks later, comes the worst part of the day - what seems like a half-day trek through the mud, in the dark, uphill, to our tent in the newly christened Strummer field.
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The Papua New Guinea continental crust appears to be underthrusting the adjacent marginal basin and obduction of the ophiolite is occurring in an uphill direction.
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An uphill 5f course runs across the centre of the track.
The Sun
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Everton hit the woodwork twice, had two penalty appeals turned down, but in the end found themselves with an uphill battle against a determined a defiant Spurs who maintained their unbeaten away league record.
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A downhill frozen start continued to a long uphill drag through a muddy wooded section before turning into the wind, past the start for a second lap.
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Maybe he is a brother in mind to fellow Frenchman Albert Camus, who imagined Sysiphos, the mythic figure trying to roll a heavy stone uphill and destined to forever fail, as a happy person.
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As a result, achieving any change in society is always an uphill and often thankless task.
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It will be an uphill struggle to maintain exports at the current level.
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Beyond the woods the path zig-zags steeply uphill and enters a pass between the east slopes of Arkle and the south west slopes of Meall Horn.
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He cranks his uphill repeat, turns, and pads downslope for his final two-minute gasper.
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The PR alliance faces a similar uphill battle in Bukit Selambau, a state constituency in Kedah, which is barely 45 minutes by road from Bukit Gantang.
BERSIH
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Getting Africa out of the slough of famine is still an uphill task.
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Flash training is always an uphill battle but there are many sources of information that one can turn to.
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After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
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Stay on the uphill side of the trail as you approach the switchback.
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If hitting the ball uphill, you had to calculate how far back downhill it would roll, and at what angle.
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It was always going to be an uphill struggle to motivate the side even in the face of a local derby match.
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If you're a skier, slap a pair of climbing skins on your skis and you've got an impressively efficient way to get uphill.
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During my physio sessions, I also would walk on a treadmill, uphill, to try and strengthen and condition my lower body.
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It's been struggling uphill some of time, and retrogressing much of the time, as well.
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After a pleasant preamble by a stream, a strenuous uphill section over rough lava flows brings you to the South Crater.
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We still have a chance but it is an uphill battle.
The Sun
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Broader access to sterile syringes, however, may be an uphill battle.
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The men had been in unknown country, chasing the boar uphill, when the rule is to chase downhill only.
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It's an uphill battle to get them comfortable with the notion that ‘rightness’ is situational and that it is possible to be both descriptive and prescriptive.
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Lobo started shuffling uphill, on crooked empty streets past blind-shuttered windows.
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It's uphill work learning to ride.
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What happens can be likened to Sisyphus´ endlessly rolling his stone up the slope, but in this case finding that the slope beyond the crest is also an uphill one.
Press Release: The 1997 Nobel Prize in Physics
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Day one is an uphill climb through beech forest, day two across the tussock high up, day three downhill through podocarps to the Heaphy River, and day four along the gorgeous West Coast beach with nikau palms alongside.
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It's uphill work learning to ride.
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Here the Papua New Guinea continental crust appears to be underthrusting the adjacent marginal basin and obduction of the ophiolite is occurring in an uphill direction.
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The cave slopes uphill about 12 [degrees], and the floor is littered with blocks of limestone.
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He would exert himself more strenuously when working up his trainer's uphill gallop of a morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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All the reinforced fencing, railroad ties, and flying buttresses can keep the uphill from sliding downhill for only so long.
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There is a 5f course, uphill and testing which runs straight across the centre of the track.
The Sun
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Then, what was a moderate uphill hike for Dan proved to be a desperate, brutal slog for me and my out of shape, lowlander lungs.
Archive 2005-04-01
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This is a long uphill, steep at times, and it was tough going for the children, though they all made it.
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Was it the fact that large portions of this walk were uphill and conducted at great speed?
Times, Sunday Times
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Fures privatorum in nervo atque in compedibus aetatem agunt; fures publici in auro atque in purpura. on June 20, 2009 at 6: 51 pm uphilldowndale
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My feet were so heavy I could barely pick them up, let alone jog along beside the sled to give the dogs a breather on the uphill.
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Quitting smoking is an uphill climb which requires patience, willpower and lots of tissues.
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Walking over obstacles, uphill and downhill walking either in free walking animals or simulated on a treadwheel augmented with positive or negative friction has been investigated in some detail.
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Before your round, practice putting to nothing, and feel the pace of your putts by hitting uphill, downhill and sidehill.
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The uphill trek out was tough and after an arduous six hours the final climb was in sight.
The Sun
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The road stretches uphill at a steep slope.
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As you head uphill the scent of pines fills the air from the gardens interspersed between ramparts and towers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taking copious notes, he paced possible routes uphill before concluding that a postman would face deadly peril if he attempted to do the same.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blocked in the valley, the fire, as if animated by some deadly purpose, crept into the mouth of a brushy canyon and ran uphill with demoniac energy until it was burning fiercely over a benchland to the west of Hollister's timber.
The Hidden Places
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We've been fighting uphill from day one.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘It is an uphill and well-nigh impossible task,’ he wrote.
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While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.
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Climbing skins stick to the bottom of your skis or snowboard and let you motor uphill.
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Turn left and follow this gradually uphill keeping a little wooded valley on your left.
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As a party, we have an uphill struggle; not only to convince the electorate that we are worth voting for, but to convince our own members that it is worth staying and fighting.
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It'll be an uphill struggle/battle/fight to get the new proposals accepted.
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But then, we had to walk to and from school in blinding snow uphill ...
August 2004
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Follow track zigzagging uphill, keeping wall on right.
Times, Sunday Times
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Riding uphill into clearer and drier ground, we reached what I thought was a little knoll, but turned out to be a leveling off of land, a rolling countryside stretching east eventlessly except for a patch of woods here and there and except for the road upon which we were riding, still muddy from yesterday2s bout with rain.
Virginity
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Cougars face an uphill battle as they struggle to rebuild confidence for Sunday's clash with Leigh.
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We have uphill, downhill, sidehill lies and a tough last six holes.
Times, Sunday Times
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My other dream neighborhood is Xochilmilco, but it's a bit uphill from the zocalo, so not quite as convenient.
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The last part of the race is all uphill.
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The idea was to charge for the actual cost of delivering the water, since pumping uphill is expensive.
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For example, the finishing straight at Cheltenham is uphill, which tests a horse's stamina.
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If you can't quite see the actors who are in deep shadow, and you can't quite make out what the leading lady is saying, the evening becomes a bit of an uphill climb.
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Sir! if my niece is ever to marry you, she will have what you call uphill work of it in taking her place at starting.
No Thoroughfare
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Your husband's car was on an angle that any car going uphill could have seen the reflector light on his rear side bumper through the trees.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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Even without this so-called thrifty gene, you'd face an uphill battle to stay trim.
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And the White House concedes it's an uphill fight right now to get public support and to get congressional support for that initiative.
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For me, the worst scenario was a light misting drizzle or light snowfall, combined with a hard uphill push.
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The uphill putt just skirts the left edge and Woods taps in for par.
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Pass through the ruins of the hall and house and continue along the main track which bears right and heads uphill to a gate and path junction.
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The Air America pilot who came to check out the airstrip gave it his OK despite a dip in the middle and an uphill slope to the whole strip.
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We moaned back then, but the politics and bureaucracy you guys face, it must be like swimming uphill in treacle!
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For an uphill bunker shot, use less loft and make a normal swing.
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Incredibly strong winds, and countless steep grades, and uphills, and the strain of a heavy trailer, and a worn differential made for low traveling speed.
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The old banger is facing an uphill struggle.
Times, Sunday Times
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The route took the participants around a course which was a mixture of uphill and downhill slopes, cross country terrain and hard surfaces.
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Getting men to take an interest in what they look like has traditionally been considered uphill work, and in the grand scheme of the fashion industry, the status of menswear has tended to rank somewhere beneath novelty millinery.
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The accident happened last September when an ambulance taking a patient to hospital met slow uphill traffic on the road to Scarborough near East Ayton.
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Decrease the uphill distance between the heart and brain by tilting the seat back, and apply counter pressure against the legs and abdomen to retard blood pooling there.
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I think it will be a real uphill struggle for them without Costa.
The Sun
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After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
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The hardest day of the walk was Monday when they covered the greatest distance, 18 miles and mostly uphill.
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You have to gear down when you drive uphill.
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His team now face an uphill struggle to take the third Test if they want to stay in with a chance of winning the series.
Times, Sunday Times
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It’s already a struggle, uphill, for Conservative rabbis to advocate values such as kashrut - this is a stab at doing something about maintaining the attempt, and not giving up in despair.
Less brains… More meat | Jewschool
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Edvald Boasson Hagen (NOR) Boasson Hagen is not an out-and-out sprinter but Team Sky’s deadliest weapon in one-day races has an acceleration that is hard to match, and can put it to good use going uphill as well.
Favorites for Sunday’s world road race championships
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Take the track forking sharply left and follow this boggy walled route gradually uphill along a ridge for a further one and a half miles.
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Imagine a marathon runner crossing the finish line and then being told he has to run an additional 10 miles - uphill.
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And it doesn't have to be an uphill slog.
Times, Sunday Times
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The area around the green is not always flat, of course, so you will sometimes have either an uphill chip or the slightly more difficult downhill chip.
Christy O'Connor Junior's Golf Masterclass
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According to Marketing Week research, turning consumers' negative opinions around will be like pushing an elephant uphill with a rope.
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But thinking this hard for this long proved an uphill trek.
Times, Sunday Times
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As a result, achieving any change in society is always an uphill and often thankless task.
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He has an uphill battle against rheumatics.
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On Friday evenings the husbands, Simon among them, made their way up the mountainside from the train station by means of the one ancient village taxi, or else they trudged with their suitcases and their city bundles along the mile of dusty stone-strewn road, between high weedy growths, uphill to the colonies of cottages.
What Happened to the Baby?
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It's a steep uphill climb all the way to the top.
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Dave, the lodge manager, sets a stiff pace uphill.
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Father Jude made his way back uphill to his room in the rectory.
THE LAST REPORT ON THE MIRACLES AT LITTLE NO HORSE: A NOVEL
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He added: ‘I'm swinging solidly and getting my yardages right, leaving myself with mostly uphill putts.’
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The uphill stages of the race will really sort the sheep from the goats.
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Well, in fact it was all uphill, but with the trickiest slope now in the bag, the rest of the hike was comparatively easy.
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As soon as she was upright again, she began running as fast as she could along the ridge, angling uphill and away from the river.
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Hugging the spectacular Ligurian coast, the route tilted uphill immediately with a 15. 8-kilometer (9. 8-mile) climb followed by a nerve-racking descent full of hairpin curves with cliffs heading down to the sea lurking just over the guardrails.
Menchov wins Stage 12 time trial to take Giro lead
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At last we were at the foot of the pass, and the end of our march was all uphill, steep in places, the scrub turning into respectable bushes, with almost a "jungly" aspect.
In the Tail of the Peacock
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They have also begun a new book on their uphill legal battle.
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Gone are the huge, enigmatic sets and the hard-to-like orchestrations (the jazzed-up Monteverdi which accompanied Vsprs was particularly uphill work), replaced by a bare stage and a recorded soundtrack.
Out of Context: For Pina
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The collective wisdom of cyclists is that the wind is always against you and that uphill slopes inexplicably outnumber downhill ones.
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Then we walked back to Hall, which was well over 3 miles mainly uphill: no wonder my feet are aching!
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Innis adds that the overland route should provide a welcome shortcut for the ‘uphill’ trip back to U.S. waters.
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Although we may be called fools and dreamers, although we will find the going uphill, in the words of the poet: “Say not the struggle naught availeth.”
Ted Sorensen's Acceptance Speech Prepared for the 2008 Democratic Presidential Nominee
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Barack Obama already is looking beyond what he calls his uphill battle in Pennsylvania to the primaries in two weeks on May 6.
CNN Transcript Apr 22, 2008
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After the recent scandal, he faces an uphill struggle to win back public support before the next election.
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At the same time, they have faced an uphill struggle to continue investing in networks against a backdrop of falling stock markets and huge debts.
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Was it the fact that large portions of this walk were uphill and conducted at great speed?
Times, Sunday Times
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While the track begins as a circuitous path uphill it soon becomes little more than sploshes of red and white paint, marking the way, across slippery mountain rocks.
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He had been running uphill a long way.
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It sits on the front of a hill facing a dirt road, with another dirt road branching off and running uphill on the house's left and off to more remote homesteads.
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As you head uphill the scent of pines fills the air from the gardens interspersed between ramparts and towers.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had been an uphill struggle to achieve what she had wanted.
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He faces an uphill battle to restore a party that once was known as the kingmaker in German coalitions but has sunk in public opinion polls.
Rösler Opposes ECB Write-Down on Greece
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Keeping the house tidy is an uphill battle when the kids are all at home.
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Power walk all the uphills in a race, no matter how small.
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Angling my shoulders so they are parallel to the slope lets me hit uphill chips just like any other chip shot.
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St James's Street runs uphill from Pall Mall and the Palace to Piccadilly.
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Don't beat up on yourself if you find you are stopping every couple of hundred yards, particularly on the uphills.
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He would exert himself more strenuously when working up his trainer's uphill gallop of a morning.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was always going to be an uphill struggle.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leave the main road at the right-hand bend, dog-leg to the path ahead, then go left steep uphill to the top corner of the field.
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The men had been in unknown country, chasing the boar uphill, when the rule is to chase downhill only.
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Arriving at the other side, the kids strap on their backpacks and climb two more kilometres uphill to go to school.
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This stiff uphill finish should suit and he can go one better.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was a headstrong man who met every uphill struggle with determination.
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With an uphill struggle before her, Carly battled bravely in the final 1, 500m run but just missed out on GB selection with seventh place.
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It's been an uphill battle against the tight circumscription of roles dictated by magazines and fortified by generations of well-meaning mothers trying to help their children make their way in the world.
Chauncey Zalkin: A Better Way To Represent Women
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Compression of the bursa between the calcaneus and the Achilles tendon occurs every time the ankle is dorsiflexed, and in a runner the repetitions are countless, particularly with uphill running where ankle dorsiflexion is increased.
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There, at the Valley Station, I climb into a bright red, parallelogram-shaped railcar designed to "lean" uphill and hang on, back pressed against the seat, for the delightful horror of a thirty-minute ascent.
Richard Bangs: Here Be Dragons: Mt. Pilatus in Switzerland
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Uphill I use the duck walk, insole spikes embedded.
Into the Heart of the Ice
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Having witnessed these proceedings and listened carefully to what members of the committee had to say, I really do fear for the stability of the club during its tremendous uphill struggle.
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The course plays uphill, downhill and sidehill, with 18 distinctive holes, in particular its four gambling par 5s.
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Follow this uphill for about a mile before turning left along a minor lane that leads to the car park by the ranger's office and toilets.
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To put it simply, water tends to flow downhill, but it can be pumped uphill by a motor and the right machinery.
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I am not saying this man did nothing for us, but I am saying that too few in our government really care about us as we are always fighting an uphill battel for Inclusion.
Kennedy remembered as an advocate for all
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A few feet beyond the sign a footpath leaves the road on the right and climbs uphill through the trees.
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The house is approached by a long, winding uphill driveway through the grounds.
Times, Sunday Times
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At two-way fingerpost, fork right downhill, 50 yards, footbridge and left, uphill, gap in fence and stay up by fence/wall (ignoring left fork 20 yards after fence gap).
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Immediately below the bridge, a path runs leftwards, uphill to a tarmac road where a signpost to Birnam Hill points to the left.
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Descriptions which relate to uphill and downhill edges or skis are relevant only when both skis are pointed across the fall line, that is, the path a ball will take when rolling down the hill.
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Have you ever noticed that institutional buildings face a huge uphill struggle to be welcoming, no matter how hard they try to soften their hard edges?
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However, each parlor faces an uphill battle because the city hired a financial consulting firm to review the applications.
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To visit the Central Library one has an uphill struggle over busy roads or under unsafe subways.
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Rehabilitation will be an uphill struggle.
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Some of the greens were so steeply sloped that the ball didn't stop, and you had to get your driver out to putt it back uphill.
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The race is awash with talk of how the organizers set out to make things difficult for the skiers this year, with so many uphills and technical approaches to the finish lines this year.
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We fail to appreciate and respect the uphill struggle that so many people face courageously and cleverly every day in what should be a simple choice for survival.
