How To Use Struggle In A Sentence

  • He is engaged in a bitter struggle with his rival to get control of the company.
  • The new textbooks de-emphasize dynastic change, peasant struggle, ethnic rivalry and war, some critics say, because the leadership does not want people thinking that such things matter a great deal.
  • Even Peggy Noonan on MTP struggled this morning to describe as benignly as possible how McCain is noticeably putting a lot of energy into keeping a lid on his anger. Obama Unleashes Wave Of Mailers Attacking McCain's Health Plan
  • I had to struggle through the crush to get to the door.
  • So the lands of the dismembered Yugoslav state became not only the scene of Europe's greatest resistance struggle, but also one of its bloodiest civil wars.
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  • Marshals struggled in vain to prevent spectators rushing onto the racetrack.
  • he struggled pertinaciously for the new resolution
  • One effortlessly got saturation coverage, the other struggled to get noticed, despite the mandatory presence of a celebrity, a suitably weighty one too.
  • In that dingdong struggle both players were reaching great heights.
  • To struggle in sweat pooled rivers, will cause the boat to the other side of the ideal sail.
  • The class approach centers on the examination of the tactics of class domination and the dynamics of the class struggle.
  • The main axis of stratification in capitalist societies is the struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
  • Over the years the area has struggled economically but what is happening there at the moment is quite astonishing. The Sun
  • This company's workhorse is lemna, also known as duckweed-a tiny, aquatic clonal plant that doubles its biomass every 36 hours-and is skilled at making proteins that mammalian cells struggle, and often fail, to produce. News from The Scientist
  • They are considered something of a sideshow in the struggle of corporate giants for control of markets and influence over the state.
  • You could see it in her body language and the way she struggled to move properly on court. Times, Sunday Times
  • The tension has been telling on both sides as campaign strategists struggle to identify potential winning themes, not to mention winning voters, in their headlong sprint to the finish.
  • I have also struggled, fought and cried because of my addiction to drugs.
  • As he fought to rip the net apart, Francis noticed, with horror, that their struggles were only pulling the net tighter, causing it to inject increasing amounts of tranquilizing drugs into their bodies.
  • The three struggle to maintain a harmonious working relationship as brash youth clashes with age and experience. Times, Sunday Times
  • a prolonged and bitter struggle
  • She struggled with the handle before swinging the door open, diving in and slamming it shut again.
  • Life was a continual struggle for them. However, continuous is much more frequent in this sense.
  • They are sensitive to the sense of struggle and resignation in this dramatic movement and their rubato, though fluid, never damages the integrity of the underlying pulse.
  • Hence without the existence of heterodoxy and orthodoxy, collective struggles diminish greatly in importance in traditional societies.
  • I wouldn't care success or failure, for I will only struggle ahead as long as I have been destined to the distance. I wouldn't care the difficulties around, for what I can leave on the earth is only their view of my back since I have been marching toward the horizontal.
  • Similar struggles exist in east Malaysia, where the land rights of indigenous groups are bitterly disputed with loggers eager to harvest the timber for export.
  • He struggled at school because of undiagnosed dyslexia and left at 15, after the death of his father. Times, Sunday Times
  • Energy is more readily conveyed to the various parts of the smaller mass, and hence the lesser organisms will more actively functionate; and this, as being the urging dynamic attitude, as well as that most generally favourable in the struggle, will multiply and favour such forms of life. The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays
  • When he was fairly mastered, after one or two desperate and almost convulsionary struggles, the ruffian lay perfectly still and silent. Chapter LIV
  • His ability to disrupt plays as a blitzer is evident, but he will struggle to locate the ball when having to work through trash. USATODAY.com
  • She had to struggle into the tight dress.
  • The mildest critics argued that they were premature and that a decent interval should have been allowed before the struggle to analyse and understand began.
  • The blowup was the low point of a season in which Zambrano got banished to the bullpen after a slow start and continued to struggle when he returned to the rotation. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
  • Very soon they had passed from the realisation that in them and through them a new world of giantry shaped itself in the earth, from the contemplation of the great struggle between big and little, in which they were clearly destined to participate, to interests at once more personal and more spacious. The Food of the Gods and how it came to Earth
  • He wooed me back and I know he struggled to trust me again. The Sun
  • No need to edge a pie dish or struggle with crimping.
  • These struggles were only the beginning, as similar feelings about dialogue and narrative nagged the back of my mind.
  • His inner conflict is related to struggles in the outer world.
  • So we struggled for another three weeks, until the schools closed in late December for almost two months of winter vacation.
  • The struggles are still being felt, even now that I've graduated and moved away from South Bend, Indiana. Tanya Barrios: Coming Out at Notre Dame
  • Equality in poverty might mean civil population contentment whereas glaring inequalities sow the seeds of a class struggle or revolution.
  • As the struggle between the exotic island's warring factions reaches critical mass, further questions emerge from the tangled undergrowth. Times, Sunday Times
  • WOLVES ended a run of eight games without victory with a win over fellow strugglers Wigan. The Sun
  • As I struggled along with a horror hangover, she effortlessly breezed around the park. The Sun
  • Mao led the Cultural Revolution Authority in stirring up more animosity by calling the factional fighting “an extension of the struggle between the Communists and the Kuomintang”—without specifying which group was which. Wild Swans
  • She knew his better self would struggle to serve her best interests.
  • We struggled with their wrestling style of tackling and didn't adapt quickly enough. Times, Sunday Times
  • But in the longer term fragmented, divided, accountable-to-no-one-but-the-president, un-transparent, corrupt and internally feuding armed forces could all too easily be sent off to fight to satisfy internal power struggles. Armenian News - PanARMENIAN.Net
  • Yet there were almost three decades of struggle before she tasted success.
  • Britain emerged from this struggle in triumph, for the first time clearly dominant over her continental rivals. WHEN SCOTLAND RULED THE WORLD: The Story of the Golden Age of Genius, Creativity and Exploration
  • He won the award, but some suspected it was a sympathy vote following his struggle with cancer.
  • Moss allegedly ordered the pair to look for police or traffic officers to attack and "dispossess" them of their service firearms, because the PAC did not have enough weapons to wage its armed struggle. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • The family struggled to agree a formula under which a panel would be established to safeguard editorial independence. Times, Sunday Times
  • Gonzalez has had his struggles when asked to carry a team, but the Royals don't need him to shoulder that heavy of a load.
  • The two could no longer coexist and it was therefore a class struggle between the Southern slaveholding aristocracy and the Northern capitalist democracy.
  • If you are still struggling to get your head around your smartphone, tablet computer and apps, prepare to struggle a whole lot more. Times, Sunday Times
  • Scientists and thinkers have struggled with the controversy and its implications for humanity for decades.
  • Timur's trajectory began with a three-year struggle to achieve dominance, at the end of which in 1370 he proclaimed himself not merely emir of Samarkand but khan of the Chagatai and inheritor of Genghis's Mongol empire.
  • Jaworski says McNabb diminishes the impact of his inaccuracy by being an elite scrambler and rarely making stupid throws, and that was true even during his struggles.
  • The offense struggled to sustain drives last year and must get better on third down.
  • It was a difficult struggle, but she managed to hold it in.
  • There's the literal, like Chocobos, Moogles and certain summons; and the less so, like a particular visual and musical aesthetic, or themes of war ethics or class struggles. Archive 2008-04-01
  • A top-heavy nurse in cricket pads and dangling overhead light pack struggles to aim a fire breathing generator in a duel with a whip-cracking foreman.
  • They have not laboured in the vineyard long enough to accept the dynamics of the struggle that he has been engaged in.
  • ESCONDIDO - No charges will be filed against two Escondido police officers for the death of a parolee who was high on methamphetamine as they struggled to take him into custody, the District Attorney's Office announced Thursday. San Diego News
  • She struggled to rekindle the relationship. Times, Sunday Times
  • Instead of taking joy in the profusion of spring blooms, Jane struggles to take a breath.
  • Fighting against her grip, I pull my hand out of the innards, and struggle against the urge to vomit.
  • We huddled closely around its glowing embers as they struggled to keep at bay the piercing chill of the Andean night.
  • It also helps struggle against anti - science and pseudoscience during SC.
  • I struggled to taste the truffle in the light celeriac mousseline but all-in-all this wide array of flavours pulled together well.
  • I don't go to bed early enough and therefore struggle to get up in time to get ready at a leisurely pace.
  • In November of 1997, after a massacre in Luxor that killed fifty-eight tourists and provoked overwhelming revulsion, Egypt's Gamaa al-Islamiya halted its armed struggle. Backfire
  • After a bitter internal struggle the Apaches turned down the deal.
  • His body was decomposing as the nation struggled towards a new beginning. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was the culmination of years of boycotts and demonstrations, of freedom rides and sit-ins, of protest and struggle, of sacrifice and suffering.
  • As the characters struggle to be human against all the odds the play reflects the struggle that all humans face in life.
  • He later added: ‘The pathologists say there was no evidence Robert struggled, which suggests Robert may have been incapacitated in some way.’
  • Even in Portland, the government struggles with greening its buildings, says Rob Bennett, manager of the city's Building Division.
  • In this rather archaically written biography, marred by ornate, stilted language and the author's reliance on and citation of endlessly extended passages from his great-great-grandfather's autobiography, James Mellon struggles mightily but fails to make his readers care much for or about Thomas Mellon. Banking On the Future
  • She struggled to get the necessary finance for her training.
  • While the US struggles with its health care system, already the costliest in the world both overall and per capita, Cuba is struggling with a different problem, how to open more clinics in more countries to give more people free ophthalmological care so they can see better than before. Operation Miracle: Cuban Health Care Gives Sight to the Near Blind for Free
  • The Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle.
  • Miranda and her two friends struggle not only with the trials of this new world, but with the tension between their old New Jersey identities and their “real” Roumanian identities. Book Review: The Tourmaline, by Paul Park | Mind on Fire
  • Channing Crowder, hands-down winner of this week's chowderhead award for confusing Anne Frank and Helen Keller in a fit of pique, has struggled with history and geography before. Channing Crowder hears from Le'Ron McClain over spitting allegation
  • I give beaucoup extra points to applicants who have lived through real struggle and who have shown determination amid adversity.
  • Thousands of foreign criminals are at large as the Government struggles to deport them, figures published yesterday show. Times, Sunday Times
  • I struggled out, disturbing the lazy whatsits as little as possible, and yawned my way in the general direction of the unusual sounds.
  • Also, the sequel was considerably buggier than the first game - we struggled to complete the Episode VI superstory on account of multiple repeated crashes. Lego Star Wars II Post-Mortem
  • And the running game struggled again as the two running backs averaged 2.8 yards a carry.
  • Socialists who stressed the struggle of the poor, like the poet Attila József, were a minority voice.
  • Everything converged on the labor movement, which proved the real crucible wherein the struggle was to be decided. Red Hunting in the Promised Land: Anticommunism and the Making of America
  • Many investors struggle to get past the comfort zone of mutual funds.
  • Through their intimate portrayal of the daily struggles of Natividad Nata, her husband Daniel and their children, we discover the true face of hardship, but also Nata's courage and resilience and her family's unfaltering love and unity. E. Nina Rothe: The Human Rights Watch Film Festival Digs Deep, Asks the Hard Questions
  • Wilson depicted the struggles of African Americans with a lyrical beauty and captured the lives of those who lived on the edges of the society with a dignity that was worthy of the titanic power of any character in Greek drama.
  • Championship strugglers Gillingham made it a third match without defeat at promotion-chasing Sheffield United.
  • Festival to give a reading of your new tome and found that, entirely because of a struggle between competing ideologies, your luggage had to stay at home. Times, Sunday Times
  • After a fierce struggle, he got a beat on his opponent.
  • Ruthin struggled to post 107-9, the biggest single contribution of 16 coming in extras.
  • She looked at him, eyes moistened still, and her face struggled between smile and surprise.
  • One might say that the true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that our civilization represses or oppresses, its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter for terror, and the happy ending (when it exists) typically signifying the restoration of repression. January 2010
  • Life became a struggle for survival.
  • That is partly because they struggle to compete with rivals in India and China that spend less on wages. Times, Sunday Times
  • Losing weight was a terrible struggle.
  • The imperialists are a bit mentally retarded but they will have to learn what the use has been of their 20 years of hostility and struggle against us. INAUGURATING HEALTH CENTER IN LAS TUNAS
  • The club struggled to ship them out as no one else would match their whopping wages. The Sun
  • Struggle comparing upward. Happy compare downward.
  • Second I struggle with the hanky debate this time of year too (boo ragweed), the hanky is great for small sniffles but for my shonze needs, hygienically I've got to use the disposable tissue. Boos and Yahoos
  • In a second letter he tells how he struggled to avoid being drawn in by the ship 's propeller, as some victims were. The Sun
  • The Congress had agreed to reconsider its stance on the armed struggle.
  • March 27, 2010 at 2: 03 am its true we all meed to struggle so that we can make good money for this huh …. Persistence Pays – But Not Enough to Cover the Rent | Write to Done
  • Yes, I know the Internet is a jungle, but as the writer above puts it, life continues to be a "ceaseless struggle to extract moments of goodness and purity from a world of tragedy. Ingrid Hill - An interview with author
  • Life in the city for the common people is a relentless struggle to keep out of trouble and keep your head above water.
  • Vicki struggled open another box of books and notebooks as she tried to forget that it had been fun.
  • The network's chairman announces his departure as CNN continues to struggle in the cable ratings war.
  • Yet he saw consequences the most unpleasant in this rumour of her attachment; and though he still privately hoped that the behaviour of Mandlebert was the effect of some transient embarrassment, he wished her removed from all intercourse with him that was not sought by himself, while the incertitude of his intentions militated against her struggles for indifference. Camilla
  • He relies on his athleticism and aggressiveness to beat blockers to the ballcarrier but struggles disengaging from blocks. Wake Forest's Curry heads deep draft for linebackers
  • The real struggle now is to bring the warlords together to manage the peace.
  • While waiting for help to arrive, the crew haggled with missionary priests for wine, rice and yams, and struggled to keep curious natives off the pontoons used for water landings.
  • After all the suffering that you have had to reckon with in the past, your present struggle will seem easy.
  • It has the grandeur of a true epic, a thrilling, if flawed hero, momentous political struggles, bravery, love and death.
  • Along with his intensely loyal family he struggles hard to achieve downward mobility.
  • A lot of teams struggle to deal with that system and his positional play. Times, Sunday Times
  • SENATE GOP WHIP CONTEST COOLING OFF - Running tonight in Roll Call form David Drucker: "The contest for Senate Republican Whip has chilled following a backlash of rank-and-file GOP Senators, who are upset that a very public intraparty power struggle might sew discord and alienate voters in the midst of a national fiscal crisis. HUFFPOST HILL - Senate Punk-Off Continues to Escalate
  • As her other children - Ben, nine, and Kylie, six - played outside, only a chesty cough betrayed their mum's desperate struggle.
  • From a printed curiosity -- a letter written by one of those brave and confident Hindoo strugglers with the English tongue, called a "babu" -- I got a more compressed translation: "Godville. Following the Equator
  • He failed to struggle against temptation.
  • Many had very recently struggled from chrysalids in cocoons bivouacked on grass stems, and so their colours were vivid and their flights strong. Country diary
  • ‘Don't struggle, my dear girl,’ came his ingratiating voice.
  • As the nation struggles to get a grip on medical costs, insurance companies have grabbed the reins.
  • They struggled out of the red this year to post modest profits of NZ $6 million.
  • There was no exemption for those engaged in an armed insurrection and an armed struggle against a government. Times, Sunday Times
  • A backline of young, emerging players struggled to capitalise on a strong forward platform, and the home team showed strength in both scrum and lineout.
  • Time and again, in prose unsparing and unsentimental, Liz has allowed readers a peek into her own mental health struggles.
  • For three whole days, during which time did not exist for him, he struggled in that black sack into which he was being thrust by an invisible, resistless force.
  • His exploration of human truths in this great story of love, the on-going aftermath of war, and the individual struggle to find what is true for one's self is timeless; that he uses sex as his basic premise is what draws us, tip-toeing and tee-heeing, to this work.
  • The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
  • For months she struggled with computers and photography - ‘technological addictions’ she calls them - physical demons and creative roadblocks in order to find her film's voice.
  • Let his suffering be remembered as an example to us all on how to endure personal struggles we may think to be unendurable.
  • Will his rebellion be accompanied by patriotic exhortations - the kind which we associate with the freedom struggle that followed?
  • The mere repetition of a few chords or basic riffs while you struggled with the fretboard still had you quaking with excitement.
  • But it came after two starring loan moves and two where he struggled. The Sun
  • In the end, the fear of ideas strangles the drama, because it renders the film's protagonists' struggle to survive devoid of larger meaning.
  • His long-suffering wife, Nora, faces an everyday struggle to find money for food and other essentials.
  • The struggle between abundance and abjection is an age-old story that has left physical and psychic scars on the watery landscape of the Delta.
  • Certainly Asda struggled to beat it yesterday when I went to explore the new supermarket in Leith with an express aim of picking up some Lamb Mince for some stovies. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Sheikh Muhammed is chiefly remembered today for his Yoga-sangrama, a long allegory in songs describing the spiritual struggle as a ‘battle of yoga’.
  • I'd struggled in Colosseum crowds in the blistering heat. Times, Sunday Times
  • For this, a decentralisation of the initiative is necessary, or in other words, an affirmed self-organisation of the struggle. Anarchist news dot org - Comments
  • One character grew particularly animated, becoming red-faced as he struggled to contain the words that burst forth, recalling Offaly teams from bygone eras who had fought so bravely with their scant resources. FIRECRACKER
  • All of us will struggle fairly hard to survive if we are in danger.
  • The power struggle at centres around a personality clash between him and the man who has become the most important figure behind the scenes.
  • So, while Woods is easily the best in the world from a tough situation - he's the most creative and has the most shots - he struggles to hit straightforward chips stiff to the hole.
  • As a young prince of the Renaissance, François became caught up in the struggle between the Habsburg and Valois dynasties of Europe.
  • It took many years of struggle to establish majority rule in South Africa.
  • There was a struggle within the Kuomintang concerning the leadership.
  • Stunning images reveal the daily life-and-death struggles that take place in the animal kingdom. The Sun
  • It's funny, because having dimples is something I always struggled with growing up. Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year'
  • The issues of the factional struggle are matters of principle which put the movement squarely before the question: To be or not to be.
  • But she admits she struggled to control her weight with bingeing and excessive use of diet pills all her life. The Sun
  • Only the united struggles of the people of the world can check aggression and save peace.
  • Rescuers had to struggle on foot through more than a mile of rugged terrain before helping the passengers.
  • effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive
  • Scottish nationalists have made her into their version of Joan of Arc, a martyred hero who struggled against English oppression.
  • Always a suspect driver, he struggled to find the fairway and the pressure this put on the rest of his game took its toll. Times, Sunday Times
  • The original impetus was that of return, and reversing the so - called loss of Arab land and patrimony, rather than a fulfillment of post-colonial self-determination via the statehood route; a complot designed after 1967 as a new Palestinian identity with at its core the notion of the armed struggle as a galvanizing force. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
  • And a very big part of their struggle is with the structure of power, and especially wealth, among Muslims because that is largely based on practices that are at best murkily understood even by professionals, and which are easily attacked by propagandists, e.g,, the World Bank causes poverty. Matthew Yglesias » The Politics of Terror
  • After a violent struggle, he managed to restrain Vita on the ground until back-up arrived.
  • The struggle for the pronunciation of our name will no doubt continue long after this fracking business has quietened down. Times, Sunday Times
  • At this stage in history, the merchant class, desperate for money to finance their adventures, struggled with the monopoly of the moneylenders and overcame it.
  • James has in a sense opened up to view an important part of the struggle between belief and unbelief in modern culture.
  • This struggle with adversity and the resulting self-imposed isolation came to be seen as criteria for artistic genius.
  • The school has a struggle to balance its budget.
  • The others watched him kick and flounder as he struggled up, then saw his feet disappear.
  • We would probably translate that as the stretcher is not yet here; I struggled looking for a way para ir a escuchar su corazón to go to hear her heart con las manos confundidas no me mantengo en pie with my hands confused (not working, not able to help me) Amor y romanticismo 7
  • As most of our registry consisted of housewares and kitchen appliances, the kitchen was in a constant state of overflow as we struggled to find places for all our new treasures.
  • And neither is capable of outfoxing the hard-liners in an interagency power struggle.
  • I performed a parody of running as I struggled to escape with my useless left ankle.
  • Hard to imagine an underrated Ivy, but Cornell's MFA struggles to stay in the top 10 nationally despite boasting the third-best funding scheme in America -- even if you don't consider the fully-funded one-year lectureship virtually all graduates receive. Seth Abramson: The Top 25 Underrated Creative Writing MFA Programs
  • This is great news for those who have struggled with the trend for grass and perennials that has been so popular for the past decade. Times, Sunday Times
  • I struggled with my bags, desperately looking for a porter.
  • All this was taking place in what is now the south-central part of the United States. Far to the north, another struggle was taking place involving the great Sioux Indian tribe.
  • Only a proportion of them are successful and the rest must struggle as best they can to obtain mates.
  • Darfur is a place where "evil lives", so they have completely "moralized" the conflict and presented it as a struggle against evil. RaceWire
  • Most struggle to pay the rent and have no job security. Times, Sunday Times
  • Keep up the struggle till you succeed.
  • Struggled badly at times, mixing poor clearances with an ability to keep danger at bay on his left flank. Times, Sunday Times
  • Always self-deprecating and modest, he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer, remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes.
  • The programmatic cutting edge of such a party must be its commitment to a struggle against imperialism based on the perspective of the international unity of the working class.
  • Notwithstanding that the name Albigenses was given after the council of Lombers to the new Manichaeans, Albi was less identified with the great religious and political struggle of Southern Gaul in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries than were Castres and other neighbouring towns. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine
  • He became abusive and his wife was injured in the struggle.
  • Despite the discouraging times, activists continue to struggle on many fronts.
  • The struggle against drowsiness and fatigue is the struggle for meaning.
  • The great actor had serious struggles with choking while at the peak of his career. Times, Sunday Times
  • There was a pause, while Kara struggled to deal with her rioting emotions.
  • And since I play in more corporate outings and pro-ams these days, I have witnessed the mood swings and struggles the average player can experience in the course of a round.
  • The causes prevailed after decades of struggle and after assembling a very broad coalition. Times, Sunday Times
  • “Come now,” replied the mujik, recognizing the fact that it was useless to struggle against the will of his guest, Michael Strogoff
  • As the disease of greed and materialism spreads in our minds, so do the physical diseases, as our bodies struggle to eliminate the toxicity from the cocktail of chemicals consumed every day.

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