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struggle

If you struggle to do something difficult, you work very hard to do it. They struggled to survive in New York City on $25,000 a year. She struggled to her feet after being hit by the bicycle. The company is struggling to maintain the same level of profits. She wrote about struggling to balance motherhood, work and love. The fishermen struggled against the powerful winds and high waves that had come in with a late-night storm.

struggle

A struggle is a fight, often long and hard, or needing a lot of effort. As long as they are not willing to make peace, there will be armed struggle. Nature is really an ongoing struggle for survival. The fighting has been mainly a power struggle between these two groups. This has been part of life in Indonesia since its struggle against the Dutch for independence. They had become deeply involved in the people's struggle for freedom and democracy. They are already engaged in a power struggle for control of the post-American Iraq. The basis of most movies is a struggle between good guys and bad guys.

struggle

(= battle) an energetic attempt to achieve something getting through the crowd was a real struggle he fought a battle for recognition (= fight) make a strenuous or labored effort She struggled for years to survive without welfare He fought for breath (= conflict, battle) an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals) the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph — -Thomas Paine police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs to exert strenuous effort against opposition he struggled to get free from the rope (= scramble) climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling (= contend, fight) be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight the tribesmen fought each other Siblings are always fighting Militant groups are contending for control of the country strenuous effort the struggle to get through the crowd exhausted her

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Conjugation struggle conjugation

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struggle · verb

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Simple sentences

Class struggle is good, actually.
That fight seemed like a life-or-death struggle.
Even today, however, women struggle against discrimination.
The story of his brave struggle affected us deeply.
Ethnic minorities struggle against prejudice, poverty, and oppression.
It is better to struggle and suffer than to have everything and be bored.
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
Working in the garden is a struggle nature is eventually going to win.
Why do I always need to struggle with such problems?
Tom doesn't struggle like this.
Learning vocabulary is a neverending struggle.
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, just as the most important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well.
Many students struggle with math and science.
We have not come this far without a struggle and I assure you we cannot go further without a struggle.
Sometimes I struggle to speak English.
Many working mothers struggle to balance their home and work lives.
Don't struggle.
Tom didn't struggle.
To live is to struggle.
It is terrible that we have to struggle with our own government in order to save the environment.
Most people struggle with using the subjunctive mood.
Nothing is achieved without struggle.

Movie subtitles

We think someone shoved a whistle down his throat after a struggle.
You know, seeing my grandfather struggle to walk, it made me want to help him.
We began to struggle, I. pushed her, but I didn't think she would fall and die.
The eternal struggle for survival.
These two carry out an eternal struggle in the nature of man. yet they are chained together.
It was the great calamity of our people that drove us to the struggle. brought us together. and left us greater.
The great personal and spiritual meeting. of the old fighters and comrades in struggle.
We had to remain in the minority, because we mobilized. the most valuable elements of struggle and sacrifice in the Nation. which have always been not in the majority, but rather in the minority.
Big struggle before he died. Me, better.
Our old struggle with the hill men has come to its climax.
It will be a long and complicated struggle. but we have the unity of a common order and a common knowledge.
No, I think I can struggle along without any help from you.
But we like to believe it is the absence of struggle in the way we live.
We're not letting any wench snag you without a struggle.
In the Five-Year Plan's third year of struggle, the Donbass' miners must bear in mind that their socialist country's primary industries depend on their efforts.
That huge monster attacked me and after a fierce struggle he hurled me to the ground and stamped on me.
So I did. Are you sure you didn't get it in a life and death struggle with you victim?
I'm sure you'll be too exhausted from your terrific struggle.
Probably in the struggle. Pick up the glass.
You struggle for money!
It would do your heart good to see me struggle, Rheba.
Seems to have been quite a struggle.
Remember, you said it was funny that I didn't hear any sounds of a struggle?
I didn't hear anything because there was no struggle.
ICC is a struggle of political power.
The sensational murder came before the court. and the struggle for Mark's life took many turns.
And when the goal is in sight, after 11 years of struggle, you're willing to quit.
Nonsense, Jeeves. Are we rabbits or Englishmen? We can't give ourselves up to those thieves without a struggle.
And it is good you've inhaled a little of the spirit of the West, for it has become necessary that our aged Nippon can persist in the struggle for the space of the earth.
Musically and dramatically, we have here a picture of the struggle between the profane and the sacred.
Williams put up a struggle, but the police overpowered him.
You've had to struggle and endure privation, but that's all over now.

News and current affairs

Since he first appeared at the side of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in the late 1940's during the struggle for Jewish statehood and sovereignty, few people could articulate the Zionist and later the Israeli case with comparable eloquence and conviction.
Adaptive systems struggle with order and creativity as they evolve.
This is especially ironic because African countries like Ethiopia stand steadfastly and bravely with the US in the fight for freedom and against terrorism, even as they struggle with hunger, disease, and famine.
The battle lines in this struggle suggest that there is little accord among political elites for any spending, let alone for a long war with far-flung commitments.
The US invasion and occupation of Iraq, for example, created a major opening for Al Qaeda, whose affiliates now represent the Sunni struggle against the Shia-dominated government.
Not surprisingly, Chinese leadership was keen to avoid any reference to the last two centuries of struggle and humiliation, or to its problematic political agendas and thorny trade issues.
And, as President Barack Obama has said, the Libyan people must not be deprived of full ownership of their struggle for freedom, and Qaddafi must not be given a useful foil and scapegoat.
Then, with Palestinians gaining the upper hand, they can advance to a second stage in which all of Israel is conquered, implying armed struggle - which often takes the form of anti-civilian terrorism - for many more years.
Regardless of its effectiveness, the armed struggle waged by the PLO did empower the Palestinians and internalize a sense of collective dignity and self respect within them.
What is happening at the moment could be described as a power struggle over who should be responsible for a service that more and more people wish to be available but where no amount of professional expertise can fully safeguard the right decision.
Like the Roman Catholic Church in the years of Solidarity's struggle in the 1980s, the Serbian Orthodox Church is widely seen as a surrogate for our lost national identity.
One way to think about the six decades that have elapsed since the adoption of the Universal Declaration is as a struggle to implement its promises.
The arrests of numerous terrorist suspects last month by French and German authorities made clear that no one nation can do the critical work necessary to win the struggle against extremists.
Unions should return to the policy they adopted during the successful struggle against inflation in the 1990s.
Rather, the stubborn complexities of the situation are reduced to a stark struggle between absolute power and absolute powerlessness, the archetypal oppressor and archetypal oppressed.
Arafat's refusal to take sides ideologically helped create an illusion of Palestinian unity, with everyone dedicated to a single Palestinian struggle.
Thus, some type of power struggle, rather like what occurred in the Soviet Union following Stalin's death, may invariably follow a brief period of collective rule.
The struggle to do so has been mighty, but despite our travails--and our poverty--I believe that my country has the strength to contribute creatively to this endeavour.
In particular, the application of digital technology, introduced after a ferocious struggle with the powerful print unions, brought substantial cost savings and allowed a new era of journalism.
To the Spaniards, it helps to justify their abrupt withdrawal from Iraq in 2004; for the Turks, it is yet another vehicle in their struggle, as the vital bridge between Islam and the West, for admission into the European Union.
Even allowing for widespread electoral fraud (which would hardly endear him to Brussels), Yanukovych would still struggle to win a majority.
So the struggle between democratic and anti-democratic tendencies is becoming acute.
For example, PISA assessments have revealed that, while Japanese students excel at reproducing what they have learned, they often struggle when asked to extrapolate from that knowledge and apply it creatively.
Some continue to struggle economically, but none is abjectly poor - and some are booming.
But, in their struggle to survive, they must channel popular anti-Americanism.
In the 1980's, this approach focused attention on abuses in conflict-ridden Central America and in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, which the Reagan Administration favored in its struggle with America's enemy, Ayatollah Khomeini's Iran.
At the same time, the regional struggle currently playing out in Syria is becoming increasingly entangled with the other major source of war sounds: Iran's nuclear program.
This persecution will admittedly aggravate their difficult struggle, but they will naturally survive it.
And now it is engaged in a fateful struggle to secure the very existence and viability of the European Union.

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