The phrase "a recurring battle" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation or conflict that happens repeatedly over time.
Example: "The team faced a recurring battle with budget constraints that hindered their progress on the project."
Alternatives: "an ongoing struggle" or "a persistent conflict".
Earlier this year Laurie had to fight a recurring battle with cancer, approaching it with matter-of-fact humour and a continued zest for life.
Public education is the subject of continuing litigation over state financing and constitutional requirements and such, a recurring battle that is almost universally expected to end with lawmakers changing spending patterns and perhaps trying to find more money for schools.
Sadly, the lessons were terminated by a recurring battle with cancer, although he recently worked on a cross-cultural project recorded at U2's studio in Dublin, collaborating with Gaelic artists in Irish-jazz-reggae-improvisations.
By then I was working for the BBC, and still, whether I was preparing my camera kit for a shoot on London's Olympic Games, or carrying out recces in remote Canada for Horizon, my thoughts would gather secretly and obsessively around the central conflict of each day, a recurring battle with what felt like a demonic alter-ego, pricking at me, bullying me at intervals through whatever I was doing.
The second larger economic story Mallaby tells is of the recurring battle between central bankers, determined to maintain an unrealistic exchange rate for their currency, and the speculators who profit from their folly.
NEVER tight-lipped about his recurring battle with cancer, he still surprised many Japanese by admitting that he was an alcoholic and checking himself into rehab over the summer.
These recurring battle sequences represent when the members of the Little Busters get into physical fights with either each other or with others.
Yesterday, President Barack Obama jump-started the recurring battle over the Bush-era tax cuts with his proposal to retain those tax cuts for all Americans on their earnings under $250,000, while reverting to the Clinton-era rates for any income above that amount.
Libya has been riven for decades by recurring battles among regions and tribes, each vying for a cut of the oil wealth and other privileges.
But mostly she plays the peacekeeper in the recurring battles between her father and her brother, Ben David Wilson Barness), who looks suspiciously at Lawrence's sudden generosity.
How much trouble is charming Rudd in after taking the Financial Times around her highly marginal constituency of Hastings & Rye (paywalled link), scene of recurring battles since 1066 – mostly against French raiders or Labour challenges?
