Sentence examples for order struggled from inspiring English sources

The bottom of the order struggled, and the Phillies exposed the weakness.

India had to work hard for their runs, as their top order struggled for timing after being put in under lights.

This was a tricky couple of sessions for Surrey, whose top order struggled in swinging conditions having been invited to bat from 3pm, although the fifth-wicket pair Steven Davies and Jason Roy rescued them by sharing an unbroken 71 in 12.3 overs.

For 150 years, generations of highwaymen robbed their way around the country while the forces of law and order struggled to deal with them - hiring informers, offering rewards, hanging them in public and then ordering that highwaymen be left to rot on the gibbet.

After winning the toss and electing to bat, Kent's top order struggled to build on promising starts.

Alastair Cook won the toss but he and the top order struggled against the spinners on a slow Colombo pitch.

Moreover, Amman is the main meeting-point for expatriate Iraqis, some 400,000 of whom are reckoned to live there, some connected to the old regime and the insurgency, others to the new order struggling to assert itself.

Administrators in Boston, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles and New Orleans all order struggling students in benchmark grades to attend summer classes, though they cannot make them show up (Detroit expected 36,000 in its program and ended up with 25,000).

It is vital for Iraq's emerging new order, struggling to assert itself, that it manages to divide the insurgents and reach out to the Sunni nationalists whose followers are increasingly alienated by the mass suicide-bombings and beheadings perpetrated by the jihadists.

Among the religious orders, each order struggles against all the others, Dominicans with Franciscans, Benedictines with Bernardines.

With Australia's top order struggling for runs in the first two Tests, Warner, 26, is likely to be recalled.