Sentence examples for pushing uphill from inspiring English sources

It is just the Yankees who are stamping them as they keep pushing uphill toward a postseason berth.

"They were these 'lovable losers' pushing uphill for all those years, and then all of a sudden they spend all this money to get to the top," said Irv Rein, an author and communication studies professor at Northwestern University who consults with sports teams on fan behavior.

Bringing the power of people beyond language and geographical barriers to express their solidarity and be a positive force on the side of LGBT people, pushing uphill and making sure lesbian, gay, bi and trans people and their allies are not silenced and pushed into the shadows.

This can be explained if they are reading the events of the show in terms of motivations – the shapes aren't just moving at random, but they showed to the infant that the shape pushing uphill "wants" to help out (and so is nice) and the shape pushing downhill "wants" to cause problems (and so is nasty).

The best example is when, pushing uphill against the constraints of the day, Roosevelt's new deal of the 1930s turned orthodoxy on its head and pursued stimulus instead of austerity.

"My baby is 200 pounds in a wheelchair and hard to push uphill but silent all the time".

The device is difficult to push uphill, so Olinger will walk up hills on the course without assistance.

The songs, written by Mr. Anselmo, don't get comfortable, and their lyrics pop with the urge to acknowledge a mess, reinvent, push uphill.

The tired old Sisyphus allusion of the rock being pushed uphill simply won't do; how about Tantalus, the bogged-down ruler condemned to reach yearningly for that so-near fruit that recedes anew with each fresh grasp attempted.

In West's Sisyphos IV (2002), a metre-wide agglomeration of papier mache and foam is fastened to the ground by steel piping, making it even more immobile than the rock that the mythical Sisyphus was condemned to push uphill for all eternity.

Tumbleweed It would certainly be easier to push uphill.