But he can step back knowing that he succeeded in turning a shaky bank into a business attractive enough to become the object of a struggle between two ambitious firms.
The significance of that choice, Aust says, is that they took the object of their struggle to be the state itself, Hobbes's "leviathan" state (though the gang member Gudrun Ensslin, who assigned and explained the nicknames, didn't say so; it could as easily have been world revolution or America itself).
The paper argues that the agricultural landscape extant at the beginning of the war shaped the nature of these multifaceted struggles, even as it was an object of those struggles.
Natural resources like diamonds became the object of violent struggles.
The Erie became known as "the scarlet woman of Wall Street" in the mid-19th century when it was the object of financial struggles between Daniel Drew, Jay Gould, James Fisk, and Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Carol, too, has a child who becomes the object of a custody struggle.
For over four centuries the town was the object of a bitter struggle between Lithuania-Poland and Russia.
Its putative heroine, Gabrielle (Ludivine Sagnier), is a television weather girl, who finds herself the object of a power struggle between two ruthless narcissists: Charles François Berléandd), a successful author, incorrigible womanizer, and much older married man, and Paul, a spoiled multimillionaire playboy (portrayed as a flouncing caricature by Benoît Magimel), who wants her as a trophy.
But following a defeat, it is often the object of internecine party struggle, as candidates clamor to shape party direction and strategy.
