Annoyingly, the authors obscure this by bombarding readers with examples designed to show how cool they are—an uphill task for three middle-aged management consultants from Deloitte.
It was an uphill task, an impossible task.
It was an uphill task for England to give a fitting reply to India's mammoth score.
It was an uphill task to merely live up to his billing, never mind exceed it, and the pressure began to spill out on to the pitch.
It was an uphill task for Celtic thereafter and they never really came close to getting the vital goal before Fredy Guarín drilled in a wonderful strike with two minutes remaining to make it 4-3 on aggregate and take a rather unconvincing Serie A side into the last 16.
It was an uphill task, partly because the daily entries were tosh – ("That Goebbels, what a pain in the neck … must do something about the way Goerring is throwing his weight around" – that kind of thing), but partly because Murdoch refused to allow the Sunday Times, the greatest investigative newspaper of its day, to inquire into the authenticity of the diaries for itself.
From then on it was an uphill task, and when Ryan, Byrne and Gilsenan went over it looked like Jersey might concede half a century of points for the second time this season.
Getting adequately qualified persons in the surrounding communities was an uphill task.
It will be an uphill task.
But it will be an uphill task.
Widodo admitted that combating flooding is an uphill task.
