This was proving an uphill battle.
It was actually snowing very hard a few miles uphill toward Cottonwood Pass.
In fact, even the pre-1998 borrowers may face an uphill struggle to get any money back.
Such stories mark a big turnaround for diasporas, which over the last century have often had to wage an uphill struggle against time and geography.
All this would have made the election an uphill struggle for Mr Meek in the best of years, let alone when weighed down by the weak economy and general disenchantment with the Democrats.
It will be an uphill battle.
So we know that it's going to be accelerated uphill.
The question is now, is it going to be accelerated uphill or accelerated downhill or no acceleration at all?
Ms Torres's candidacy faces an uphill battle, in terms of both legality and popularity, but it's still too soon to write her off.
We progressed well uphill.
More sustainable building is taking place, but green architecture still faces an uphill struggle.
If we see anything like what happened in Brazil itself, feeding the world in 2050 will not look like the uphill struggle it appears to be now.
While those remaining in mutual funds probably will receive the advantage, eventually, of a surge in the stock market, some are in funds that will face an uphill battle.
The cross-country course consists of flat,uphill and downhill sections.
Leaving the riverbed, we drove uphill through a thick forest, past two scouts, who lay as motionless as the rocks around them, and stopped in a clearing in the wood guarded by two gunmen.
I never ran uphill in 2008, so I decided that I shouldn't practice running uphill in my training.
The road is, at first, filled with quaint boutique shops and young couples and friends, but as it advances uphill they give way to small cottage homes and kids playing ball in the street.
Teaching your kids responsibility may seem like an uphill battle, but they're absorbing more than you know.
I walked 600 meters uphill on an ammunition drop to the observation post that overlooks the military outpost there.
I hope you have to walk uphill with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.
Dragging the load uphill was tough work for the horse.
But it will be an uphill struggle.
