11.   It has been an uphill battle for her to get an education.

12.   An uphill battle to eradicate poverty in an area of the state that has never known anything else.

13.   An uphill battle trying to promote the latest trucks.

14.   But sport is fighting an uphill battle against the recession and competing leisure time activities ranging from videos to computers and home shopping, the survey adds.

15.   Amendment supporters concede they face an uphill battle there again.

16.   Amid the parched cornfields that have devastated the farming economy here, presidential candidate Bill Bradley is finding some fertile soil for his uphill battle against Vice President Gore.

17.   An uphill battle?

18.   Analysts on Friday generally contended that the Justice Department would have an uphill battle in seeking to stop the sale.

19.   And although Checchi has an uphill battle in front of him, he has plenty of money to buy climbing equipment.

20.   And any agreement to lift some of the sanctions would be subject to congressional approval, which would be an uphill battle.