Sentence examples for intermittent struggle from inspiring English sources

Vytautas then waged an intermittent struggle for power with Jogaila and on occasion sought further assistance from the Teutonic Order.

Founded by Abdullah Ocalan in the 1970s to fight for Kurdish cultural and political rights, the PKK has been engaged in an intermittent struggle against the Turkish government ever since.

It meant surviving Allen's clutch shooting, Wade's intermittent struggles and repeated deficits.

Rome, Italy September 14, 891 Rome, Italy Stephen V (or VI), (born, Rome died Sept. 14, 891, Rome) pope from 885 to 891 whose pontificate witnessed the disintegration of the Carolingian Empire and intermittent struggles for the Italian crown.

He was eulogized as a rock star and as a guitar god, of course; he was praised as a businessman who marketed his mystique both shrewdly and generously; and, in the obituaries that recounted the intermittent struggles with addiction that preceded his demise, at the age of 53, in a Marin County drug-rehabilitation center, he was inevitably, and with some justice, pronounced a casualty of drug abuse.

Since its independence, Uruguay had been ravaged by intermittent struggles between the Colorado and Blanco factions, each attempting to seize and maintain power in turn.

Intermittent internal struggles for succession and difficulties with the French marred subsequent Ḥusaynid history.

The level of quality is high — transcendently so, in works by Joan Mitchell and Agnes Martin — but the drama of the show is in the intermittent, solitary struggles against steep odds.

His father, Dennis, who is black, was an intermittent presence — sometimes struggling with drugs, sometimes in jail.

The chemistry with her best friend Clancy is intermittent, and she struggles to express herself beyond jokes and the endless "Jeepers", "Darn it" and "Boy, is this guy a prize potato head".

For example, Sanday argued that the danger and struggle for intermittent reward required by large game hunting encourages a view of the power of nature as something apart from humans, which must be mastered by males: Consider, for example, a society that relies on large game for food and, perhaps, clothing or items for domestic use.