Sentence examples for past struggle from inspiring English sources

By the end of the story, Stark puts his binge drinking behind him, but his past struggle has come up in more recent stories.

He has grasped his opportunities, but the strain shows; he is unable to eradicate, within himself, the signs of his past struggle.

Republicans early on united behind the lesson they took from the past struggle, that they stand to gain politically in next year's elections if Democrats do nothing.

Still, such legacy narratives can understate past struggle and overstate subsequent progress, as if the past were mere prelude to our more liberated present.

Its past struggle against Israel has won it the fierce loyalty of many Lebanese Shias, and its present one will add to their number even if it comes off worse.

Lyrically he favors boilerplate jet-set luxury, occasionally spicing things up with some patronizing pillow talk ("Dress You to Undress You") or a halfhearted glimpse of past struggle ("The Black Flag").

She and some of Ms. Wilson's friends referred to past struggles.

But fairly recently, he seemed unsure about how to reconcile past struggles with present circumstances.

As he reflected on past struggles with the Celtics, it was clear how daunting he found the task.

In her books she is often vulnerable and intimate, laying bare past struggles with men and her weight.

But contemporary errors in breeding and overfarming also tend to loom large, while past struggles, misconceptions and disasters are forgotten.