Sentence examples for rather uphill from inspiring English sources

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"It's been rather uphill for modern dance to get its feet firmly planted in the ground," Tim Rushton, the artistic director of Danish Dance Theater said by phone.

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The latter is the crucial point because natural systems always tend to do least work; water flows downhill rather than uphill and follows a meandering path even on ice, glass (automobile windshields), and within water bodies, such as the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Modified Bruce Protocol is similar to the widely used Bruce protocol; however, the treadmill is initially horizontal rather than uphill, with the slope increasing to a 5%, 10%and12%2% gradient in the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stages respectively.

Rotate your head and shoulders to initiate the spin and try to land downhill as normal rather than uphill or right below the jump.

These days, the path to the future now looks more like a series of very hard engineering problems rather than an uphill fight against physics.

Even after the danger zone was extended on Friday to 12 miles, the more than 2,000 villagers took in 400 evacuees from farther uphill rather than leave.

The rapidly shifting climate, less than a year after Mr. Obama took office on the strength of a historic Democratic sweep, was brought into focus by the announcements that Senators Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Byron L. Dorgan of North Dakota would retire rather than wage uphill fights for re-election.

It turns out that pocket gophers tend to push their burrow tailings uphill rather than downhill despite the extra effort required.

We should resist the temptation to say that entropy increases, for that would be like asserting that a road goes uphill rather than downhill without conceding the perspectival nature of descriptions like 'uphill'uphill

Wooden Leg went back through the camp in the river valley rather than directly uphill towards the soldiers.

De Blasio, who ran on a largely progressive campaign vowing to end income inequality in New York, had waged a rather public, seemingly uphill battle against Cuomo to remove the restrictive language in the state's budget.

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