The phrase "a certain struggle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a specific but not explicitly defined struggle or challenge that someone is facing.
Example: "In her journey to success, she encountered a certain struggle that tested her resilience."
Alternatives: "a particular challenge" or "a specific difficulty".
Yet for all such sorrows and the scandals in the year ahead – including the certain struggle to get Russia to admit that there was a moral bankruptcy about their systemic and criminal doping of athletes too young and easily influenced to resist – we stand at the start of a new year in which transparency walks abroad in sport like never before.
Some people argue that an orderly, controlled eurozone break-up would be a good thing for certain struggling debtor nations.
Yet there she was in the mirror and for the very first time I saw her not as the formidable assassin of my heart, but as a woman, no longer young, no longer certain struggling with a life not anything like she'd hoped or dreamed.
Dave Dayen today flags an exchange between Fox News White House Correspondent Ed Henry and HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan, in which the former drives the latter to distraction in a discussion over the White House's new plan to allow certain struggling homeowners refinance their homes in order to help them save some scratch.
It's amazing how, on certain days and in the face of certain struggles, something as simple as making supper can feel impossible without a plan.
Acknowledge you might need time to get past certain struggles or to create bigger things.
Just like your life experiences brought you to certain struggles, so did everyone else's.
Haitians have grown up in a certain kind of struggle for individuality and for power, and the country has proved itself able to absorb the ardent attentions of outsiders who, as often as not, remain blissfully unaware of their own contributions to what Haiti is.
