In a speech Thursday to students at the University of Maryland, President Obama described the fight over health care as a "defining struggle of this generation".
In an article on Saturday in The Times, Laurie Goodstein called Gingrich "a culture wars Catholic," very different from a Kennedy-era Catholic, a politician emblematic of conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants joining forces "in what they see as a defining struggle against abortion, same-sex marriage and secularism".
Generations removed from the Kennedy years when Catholics predictably voted Democratic, this is a new era in which conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants have joined forces in what they see as a defining struggle against abortion, same-sex marriage and secularism.
We defined struggling in terms of academic failure, course disruption, and early course exit, alone or in combination.
To celebrate, she wrote a book in which she cast the fight over 1070 as the defining struggle of her political career.
In narrative forms, heroic stature is achieved by a character working steadily toward a defined goal or struggling to fulfill some ideal of the self.
Another international expert on extradition said courts have in general considered political offences to be those committed as an incidental part of a broader political power struggle between a defined movement or party of which the defendant is a member, and the established government.
"It's very clear the speaker thinks of this as a long ideological struggle, a defining battle," said Ilan I. Berman, a vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council, whom Mr. Gingrich recently named one of 11 national security advisers.
Peyton Siva added an unlikely flourish to the end of a season defined by struggle: a ride around the Madison Square Garden court atop the shoulders of his 6-foot-6 teammate Chane Behanan while Louisville celebrated a Big East tournament championship.
"As a political catalyst, speech defined the struggle for freedom and moved ordinary people to extraordinary acts of courage; and as an art form, the word has conveyed itself forcefully and dramatically by drawing on the rich African American musical heritage".
But is being remembered correctly and making an indelible impact on history worth a life defined by a violent struggle?
