One side of this involved armed struggle and the imposition of Spanish colonial administration by force; the religious side of this struggle was the generally peaceful conversion of indigenous populations to Christianity.
I see his understandable anger at religion, and his frustration regarding stories of hindered abortion, of women turned away by GPs who don't wish to become involved and subsequently struggle to find care.
In my defense, surely there are basic differences between the vet's situation and my own: responding to a dying, then dead, pet does seem less involved than the struggle against human mortality.
All involved (including Duane) struggled to keep off the substance in the ensuing days.
Roth gets us deeply involved in the teen struggles of the heroine, Tris, as she joins a new faction in her fractured society, and as she undergoes initiation into a new way living and thinking.
Elizabeth was under great pressure to become more involved in the continental struggle between Roman Catholics and Protestants, in particular to aid the rebels fighting the Spanish armies in the Netherlands.
Some of these volunteers found it easy to maintain emotional distance: 'It's a supporting role…So I don't feel any need to get too emotionally involved' (V018), but others struggled with this constraint: 'These women are so lovely, and because they are in desperate need for a friend…it's so hard not to become their friend' (V030).
This struggle at times involved practices that appear highly ambivalent when viewed through a democratic or constitutional lens.
For instance, struggles for domination in Angola, Mozambique and Ethiopia involved massive external involvement, with great human costs for local populations (Bakewell, 2000; Castles, De Haas, & Miller, 2014).
