What does uphill battle mean?

Definitions for uphill battle
up·hill bat·tle

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  1. uphill battlenoun

    A challenge with the odds of success stacked strongly against.

Wikidata

  1. Uphill Battle

    Uphill Battle was an American metalcore band with elements of grindcore. The group was based out of Santa Barbara, California, USA.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of uphill battle in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of uphill battle in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of uphill battle in a Sentence

  1. Robert Corn-Revere:

    He would have a real uphill battle.

  2. Kiryl Sukhotski:

    We need to get to the wider audience in Russia, we see a lot of people indoctrinated by Russian state propaganda … it will be an uphill battle but this is where we shape our strategy.

  3. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez:

    We had been building and building, knocking on doors and doing everything we could, but a lot of the rhetoric I was met with from day one was,' You know,( Jeff Klein) is so powerful, and you have an uphill battle and I don't know if I want to donate. I received so many no's and so many question marks, asking if it was possible, then June 26th happened.

  4. Wang Yi:

    The world is braced for a second wave of infection - what lies ahead is a tenuous and uphill battle, defeating the pandemic requires concerted efforts from all countries. The major ones in particular should play an exemplary role in promoting collaboration.

  5. Steve Vladeck:

    The result is not especially surprising given the uphill battle The Federal Government faced in defending such a content - based speech restriction. But the implications of the Court's decision to save the rest of the statute are potentially quite significant, how courts should treat the rest of a statute when one provision is unconstitutional is at the heart of the major Obamacare challenge the Justices are set to hear next fall.

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