The case before the court involved a struggling Oregon high school student, identified in court documents only as T. A., whose parents removed him from public school in the Forest Grove district in his junior year and enrolled him in a $5,200-a-month residential school.
But as Mr Obama could tell him, any health reform worth passing inevitably involves a struggle.
And of course it involves a struggle between Islamists and anti-Islamists, among other groups.
Stark is a writer as well as a visual artist, and much of her work to date involves a struggle for words as well as meaning.
The signal drama in new art lately involves a struggle not for esteem and influence — the wonted dreams of artists — but for commercial viability.
Clearly, this evolutionary narrative could fit into a theology with some classic elements: a divinely imparted purpose that involves a struggle toward the good, a struggle that even leads to a kind of climax of history.
Set largely in East Los Angeles, an area that doesn't often pop up in movies except as a scary, nominally exotic backdrop (or unless Cheech and Chong are going up in smoke), "A Better Life" involves a struggle to hold onto a home of one's own.
Water involves a struggle for a crucial, limited resource, as well as a quasi-religious war between those who hold the earth holy and those who don't -- at present the vast majority of a huge population whose very existence is a greater threat to the environment than the bad guys in black hats Egan constantly blames.
Today, it's the stage for a different kind of battle, one that involves a struggle over preserving the American dream.
In cases of serious injury or wrongdoing, forgiveness often involves a struggle on the part of the forgiver to overcome or renounce strong reactive emotions such as resentment or hatred of the wrongdoer.
