1.   Anything more than modest health care legislation, for example, seems unlikely, and welfare reform will be an uphill fight.

2.   Bonifaz acknowledges that he has an uphill fight persuading politicians and insiders of the need for change, since they have a vested interest in the current system.

3.   A constant theme is equal rights for women, an uphill fight.

4.   Advocates for gay rights and other likely opponents of the ballot measure face an uphill fight if votes in Hawaii and Alaska are any indication.

5.   All three proposals face steep uphill fights in the Democratic-controlled Assembly.

6.   But Brookwood concedes that AMD faces an uphill fight trying to find a major server vendor willing to use the processor in its high-end machines.

7.   But even under that scenario, McCain would face an uphill fight, with contests next week dominated by Southern states where Bush is strongest.

8.   But if Gramm is waging an uphill fight for the nomination, few people count him out altogether.

9.   But in the face of Republican opposition, the bill faces an uphill fight for approval.

10.   But it is an uphill fight in a country where one suicide conference was canceled last year and mainstream newspapers have not even mentioned the topic.