The phrase "a very uphill" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to describe a challenging situation or task, but it needs additional context to be fully understood.
Example: "The project ahead is a very uphill battle, requiring significant effort and resources."
Alternatives: "a steep challenge" or "a difficult task".
He is a brave soul fighting a very uphill battle.
"Leaving that meeting, I was convinced that we had a very uphill battle on our hands".
"It's been a very uphill battle," said Holly Tuminello, a spokeswoman for the coalition.
The truth is that Democrats face a very uphill battle to take over in the House of Representatives.
Among legal scholars evaluating his chances, early opinion suggests that it will be a "very uphill battle," as the noted criminal-procedure scholar Orin Kerr put it.
Thus, a corporation may adopt such a clause, but decide, if a serious litigation threat surfaces in Delaware, to waive the clause's application and permit an action to be settled elsewhere for "a peppercorn and an attorney's fee". To be sure, this is self-interested, and the settlement might be collaterally attacked, but a collateral attack is a very uphill battle.
"It's going to be a very, very uphill task to deploy the logistics, the whole gamut of logistics, required to mount effective elections," said Olisa Agbakoba, a past president of the Nigerian Bar Association.
Let's put it this way -- if the chair of Selig's committee, Detroit Tigers president/general manager David Dombrowski, took a look at the most recent yearbook of his old high school, he would get an indication that baseball has a very long, very uphill climb to even maintain that 8.5percentt level.
It will be a very difficult, uphill struggle to return to the path of sanity.
"I would say it has a very steep uphill fight in our conference.
He's left with a very gettable uphill left-to-right breaker for birdie; it somehow stays high on the left.
