Sentence examples for upstream battle from inspiring English sources

Jan . 13at 8: "Upstream Battle" (2009, Ben Kempas), introduced by the director.

Becoming one's true self has always been an upstream battle.

There is a sense locally made films battle upstream from the start, fighting for eyeballs against a backdrop of diminished market share and inundation of foreign content.

The difference maker to me here is that any sort of indoor or micro-location system now has to battle upstream from demonstration to proof-of-concept to acceptance to licensing and/or acquisition.

The 1st Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, under Lieutenant Colonel Lenard B. Cresswell, crossed Alligator Creek upstream from the battle area, enveloped Ichiki's troops from the south and east, cutting off any avenue for retreat, and began to "compress" Ichiki's troops into a small area in a coconut grove on the east bank of the creek.

While the river crested in towns upstream, people here were battling an expected crest of 21.2 feet.

Conservationists lost a battle to save upstream Glen Canyon from becoming a reservoir.

I was moved to struggle upstream.

With Emomali Rahmon failing to get either Russia's blessing or investment in the project, his upstream dream has fast become an uphill battle considering Tajikistan's deep poverty and lack of fiscal transparency.

When he'd finished speaking, they waved their Kalashnikovs in the air and made battle cries before jogging back to the barges waiting to send them upstream to war.

For 23 years now, Georgia, Alabama and Florida have waged a classic upstream-downstream water war, with Alabama and Florida coming out on the losing end of a long court battle in 2011.