Sentence examples for last struggle from inspiring English sources

You could see the signs of his last struggle in the mud around his muzzle.

To Stowe, the Civil War, now underway, was a millennial war, "the last struggle for liberty" that would precede the coming of the Lord.

Here we are, grasping for the full loutishness and not being able quite to get it in the last struggle to break away from the banality of everyday life.

In his last struggle against Stalin's project for a centralised Soviet Union, Lenin again advocated the unconditional right of small nations to secede (in this case, Georgia was at stake), insisting on the full sovereignty of the national entities that composed the Soviet state – no wonder that, on 27 September 1922, in a letter to the Politburo, Stalin accused Lenin of "national liberalism".

"He couldn't get the words out, and he was going to use the last few minutes of his life — his last struggle was going to be devoted to saying to me, 'Thank you' and 'I love you for what you're trying to do.' I think that's what got to me in a way that few things had.

He has not had a drink in nearly a decade, but those last struggles are still painfully vivid.

Even a pacifist would see the value in a last armed struggle against an enemy of unknowable power.

Martin Luther King Jr.'s last great struggle was in support of 1,300 striking Memphis sanitation workers.