We expect a struggle to control and possess; or submit and surrender.
If teachers expect a struggling child to carry on doing badly, then this policy will have failed.
Continuing east toward Jackson, Indiana troops in the vanguard of McPherson's column expected a "severe struggle".
Mr. Haddad, the adviser to Mr. Shater, said the Brotherhood always expected a long struggle to wrest power from the military and business elite.
Aides said that the president expected a drawn-out struggle over the results and wanted to reassure the country and the world in the meantime that there was indeed a president in place.
American drug enforcement officials can expect a long struggle.
You sit down to watch Giu-seppe Tornatore's "Malèna" (2000), and your ears know what to expect: a glorious struggle, as Morricone strives to mold harmonic shapes that can go head to head, or quaver to quaver, with Monica Bellucci.
Both sides expect a bruising struggle, with more of the mutual questioning of motives that marked the final week here, even though Mr. Bradley expresses disdain for what he calls "politics as usual" (read mud-slinging).
With Leeds having conceded only two away goals all season before this game and Millwall only two at home, it was only reasonable to expect a long struggle to fashion the slightest glimpse of goal.
Standing on a balcony above the entrance to Benghazi's court-house, now the rebel headquarters, an elder tells a champing crowd to expect a long struggle.In this section A civil war beckons The military balance It's not over yet The royal house is rattled too Time running out?
