uphill struggle

But the most enlightening part of the book was its recounting of California’s uphill struggle to get the rest of America to care about smog.

Cooper and Leicester could defy the odds but it may well be a steep uphill struggle.

But a handful of Northern Ireland MPs bringing about change in a 650-seat House of Commons could be an uphill struggle.

The Conservatives are currently behind Labour in the polls and Sunak faces an uphill struggle to turn things around before the next general election.

The Conservatives are currently behind Labour in the polls and Mr Sunak faces an uphill struggle to turn thing around before the next general election, expected this year.