In a struggle often played out in the national news media, Dr. Silber survived sit-ins, street protests, strikes, mass resignations, death threats, a suspicious fire that destroyed his home, a Civil Liberties Union lawsuit, federal and state investigations touching on his financial dealings, and critics who called him a tyrant and worse.
Kate is a hotshot manager for a Boston investment company (in the novel the setting is London), whose long-suffering husband, Richard Greg Kinnearr), a struggling, often unemployed architect, becomes a de facto househusband left to bring up their two young children as Kate's star ascends.
Accessing services and the challenges associated with securing a definitive diagnosis of ADHD in adulthood was an ' uphill struggle', often due to sceptical and negative attitudes towards ADHD by healthcare professionals.
The journey to publication is a whole other struggle, often accompanied by disappointment and rejection by traditional publishers.
Cheerleading is always a site of gender struggle, often setting the desire of women to showcase their abilities against, or sometimes in tandem with, the obligation to make the world better for men.
But living in London is a struggle they often feel they are losing".
A struggle is often going on in a novel, between present and past, instance and form, free will and determinism, secular expansion and religious contraction.
When Barack Obama is sworn in as the nation's first African-American president, many will view that moment as the culmination of the modern civil rights movement, a struggle most often identified with Dr. King.
This struggle often erupted in violence.
And, in many senses, Long- ford was a 19th-century figure, struggling, often with humour, to deal with the problem of being born too late.
It was a time when a century of Jim Crow laws and segregation were being challenged by the advocates of civil rights in a struggle that was often more bitter and bloody than popular history likes to admit.
