The phrase "a struggle rather" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to contrast or clarify a struggle in relation to something else, but it lacks context to be effectively used.
Example: "It was a struggle rather than a straightforward task."
Alternatives: "a challenge instead" or "a battle rather".
Perhaps, she said, being a revolutionary is an end in itself, a personal struggle rather than a public one.
Both sides say they are keen to make progress, but trust is in short supply.The government has pushed the protest movement into a more radical direction by depicting its uprising as a sectarian struggle rather than a call for democracy.
"It is a power struggle rather than a genuine crackdown on corruption.
Though it was a political struggle rather than a military clash, the Movement (Gordimer capitalizes it) has nonetheless familiarized its participants with incarceration, torture and violent death.
The director, Jesse Berger, is right to present the story as a power struggle rather than a martyrized same-sex romance, even if he does evoke the look of an East Village gay bar.
Russia is deploying its propaganda apparatus to present this as an ideological struggle rather than a mercenary one.
"Stormy Weather," a song that most singers belt to the rafters, was reconceived as a private struggle; rather than dramatize her sorrow, she fought to contain it.
The announcement came on a day when leaders on both sides seemed intent on reassuring their publics that they would persevere in a violent struggle, rather than that there was any realistic, near-term prospect of peace.
The sign held by a young boy says, "Broccoli is my personal jihad" — jihad meaning a personal, spiritual struggle rather than its more notorious translation as holy war.
After the Edict of Worms, however, the cause of reform, of whatever sort, became a legal and political struggle rather than a theological one.
