Sentence examples for not uphill from inspiring English sources

It's almost as if you're swimming downhill, not uphill.

Republicans have a very narrow but not uphill path to a majority.

Senator Kerrey conceded that Mr. Bradley's best -- if not uphill -- chance was to win Washington State so he could draw positive publicity before the battery of contests on Tuesday.

The more nimble Peggy has progressed more quickly, but right now her battle isn't uphill -- it's practically vertical.

"That way, we're not fighting uphill, and we're not fighting the refs, either.

(Raising money to run against Hillary Clinton is not exactly uphill work).

Democrats tended to agree that while the road for them was not necessarily uphill, it looked rocky.

Life is an upstream, not an uphill, battle, and it results in just one story: how, and alongside whom, one used his paddle.

Accurate determinations of heights are required for engineering and planning maps, for example, for railway gradients or particularly for irrigation or drainage networks, since water in open channels does not run uphill.

However, she would face a difficult if not insurmountable uphill struggle to confirmation because many Republicans view her as too antagonistic toward the financial industry.

It seems unlikely that other strong sensory cues about moisture content in the environment would be over-ridden by vibrations, or that rapid emergence and movement in a random direction (Figure 3D) would be adaptive at the onset of rain (e.g. Diplocardia do not move uphill in response to vibrations).