Sentence examples for uphill scramble from inspiring English sources
The annual process of making up the $330,000 budget was an uphill scramble: a third came from a frugal town board, a third from the moody world of private donations and a third from an anemic endowment.
As I stumble through the doors of the Marcopolo Inn, Raja Hussein Khan, the general manager, ushers me past a rank of inviting-looking lounge chairs to inspect a prominent poster which traces the 452-year dynasty of the royal family of Hunza.I am out of breath from the uphill scramble through terraced orchards of apple and apricot that has led me to the village of Gulmit, some 40km from Sust.
It's a 15-minute scramble uphill to reach the dam and there's a decent pub at the bottom, the Shepherd's Rest.
A video posted to YouTube shows confused and alarmed commuters trying to scramble uphill against the flow and yelling "Stop!" Mr. Marsico said the injuries were "mostly bumps, bruises, scrapes," though three people were taken to hospitals.
Even so, Johnette Howard, in her warm and richly reported book "The Rivals," relates a dream Navratilova had about Evert that those who study rivalries (there are beginning to be researchers who do) might want to consider for a conference panel: "She was playing Evert from a deep valley, and she kept having to scramble uphill, hit a shot, then chase Evert's return down into the abyss again".
I have never been so pleased to be off my bike and running, albeit soon scrambling uphill with plenty of mud thrown in.
Ecologist Álvaro Palma of Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, who had dispatched the team of five to the island, says the group scrambled uphill from their house near shore to avoid the wall of water.
Bowker's description of the course is interspersed with terms such as "knife-edged aretes", "scrambling", "never-ending uphill slogs", "volcanic boulders", "babbling streams" and "wonderful grassy slopes".
Miller can take the scrambling, quick runs and when needed, Hyde's ability to go uphill and eat clock can be of value.
But with that tack, he suddenly found himself competing not only with with Mr. Gore but also with Senator John McCain of Arizona, who was scrambling hard to persuade independents and dissident Democrats to join him in his uphill effort to snatch the Republican presidential nomination from Gov. George W. Bush of Texas.
