Sentence examples for present struggles from inspiring English sources

Does the author want us to pay constant attention to the narrator's present struggles to make sense of the past?

Still, their present struggles are relative and minor considering where the franchise was in the standings a year ago.

Manchester United appears headed toward a 20th league title, while Liverpool remains stuck for two decades on 18, last having won a league crown in 1990, its present struggles a dim comparison with a shimmering past.

"The present struggles with entrenched encampments in Oakland, San Francisco and New York City led us to conclude that we must uphold our policy," the university chancellor, Robert J. Birgeneau, said in a statement.

The philosophical battle between Ghazali and Ibn Rushd is partly based in fact, and partly, of course, the product of my imagination, but the opposition between faith and reason, if I may simplify that debate, is certainly of great importance to an understanding of the present struggles within Islam.

Instead, we should each take this opportunity to listen to the "I Have a Dream" speech once more, paying particular attention to how the echoes of yesterday's struggles reverberate in our present struggles, and to recommit ourselves to the nobility of righteous pursuits.

In a word, they would take us to abject surrender of practically all of our national strategic interests in the present struggle against international communism.

He pictures the present struggle as a "counterinsurgency" campaign — a struggle in which, before the Iraq war, "no more than a few thousand people around the world" threatened the United States.

A limited view of leadership can be regressive, both in the present struggle to improve police-community relations and in the struggle to eliminate sexual discrimination in the work force.

He knew what his own struggles had been, and he knew that the present struggle would lead to if not a different day then a different kind of day, one in which erasing lines from one's own story might make less sense than just saying them.

The following winter a New York private recovering from a wound described a debating society among convalescent soldiers, which discussed among other subjects the following: "Resolved that the present struggle will do more to establish and maintain a republican form of government than the Revolutionary war".