This was a speech of contradictions -- an increase of troops in order to facilitate withdrawal, a desire to stabilize, and support an unstable, and corrupt government, and a refrain that has become at once familiar, and tired, one that harps on 9/11 as justification for prolonging a struggle from which even Sisyphus would have been spared.
This is a struggle for rights which was started by hundreds and now encompasses millions.
Their "simple life" was a struggle for existence which had reduced their numbers to fewer than a hundred.
Mexico, Spain's richest American colony, thus joined a struggle for independence which had already seen the colonial authorities ousted and rebel juntas installed in Caracas, Buenos Aires and other South American cities.
Building controls that satisfy both has been a struggle for Facebook, which gets criticized for either making controls too complicated or not empowering users enough.
It is a struggle for power which could be played out for many months and years, and Hosni Mubarak's fate is just one of the many issues in play.
In a very different context, the wing of the Russian Social Democratic party led by Julius Martov found itself labelled "Menshevik" – those of the minority – after losing an internal struggle for which they actually had majority backing.
Again, I see myself as a beneficiary of the struggle for which vast numbers of people themselves deserve the credit.
Love is ambivalently both an enduring ideal relationship and a struggle for mastery in which the male has the upper hand.
Everyone before Sloan had seen the problem as one of personalities to be solved through a struggle for power from which one man would emerge victorious.
He won great acclaim for Ein Kampf um Rom, 4 vol. (1876 78; "A Struggle for Rome"), in which he reconstructed the decline and fall of the Ostrogothic empire in Italy.
