Sentence examples for uphill process from inspiring English sources

Then, as perhaps now, there was a recuperative urge among metropolitans to make nice with the disgruntled heartland — an uphill process, as witness a recent protest movement against a terrific Benton mural, at Indiana University, that features Ku Klux Klan figures, never mind that Benton meant to denigrate them.

Such advantages include the convenient triggering and regulation of enzyme-like activity by light-intensity variations, efficient substrate conversion even under very mild reaction conditions, and the intrinsic possibility of powering energetically uphill processes.

As storms wash the sand from front to back, the islands would essentially roll uphill, a classic process that scientists have dubbed island rollover.

Many of the adults had retreated uphill to molt, a process that involves standing still for several weeks, itchy and hungry, while new feathers push out old feathers.

This radical transfer process is uphill thermodynamically by at least 100 mV, driven by the loss of water at the ribonucleotide substrate.

In the paper, the processes of uphill and downhill, which have been divided into 5 stages, are analysed respectively.

"The process has been uphill throughout," Carroll said.

He complained, though, of "gross omissions" and "unsubstantiated leaps of faith," and wrote of fighting an uphill battle, during the reporting process, against Mr. Powell's "preset narrative".

It has all been a learning process and often an uphill struggle.

Because the succinamide station binds the macrocycle less strongly than the fumaramide station, this process has moved the macrocycle energetically uphill; that is, it has performed a ratcheting operation, transporting a particle away from equilibrium.

Alternatively, for very large populations (N μ>1), the Poisson process approximation breaks down and both uphill and intermediate mutations can be treated deterministically, and only the valley-crossing genotype must be treated stochastically.