What does uphill battle mean?

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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. 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.

  2. Peter Ubertaccio:

    The challenge for him is that this isn't a party that goes with young, up-and-coming leaders, i think it's going to be an uphill battle.

  3. Eric McCormack:

    We laughed so hard. For the last year, it’s been a confusing time, and I have n’t laughed very much, and to come back together and to laugh out loud and to be surprised by one another and to have new stories to tell and to have another opportunity to do it … it’s a no-brainer. that made me feel like we have a place and we’re not going to be fighting an uphill battle … I thought, why not ?

  4. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders:

    It’s going to be an uphill battle.

  5. Carlos Daniel Coradi:

    Trabuco did a great job trumping the rivals that traditionally took the industry's hallmark deals with them, but the task of integrating HSBC Brazil into Bradesco's platform looks to me like an uphill battle.

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