The announcement was the latest salvo in a three-ring struggle over the future of Coney Island between the city and the developer Joseph J. Sitt, chief executive of Thor Equities.
Pulling in the crowds with star matadors still proves relatively easy, but away from the big-name bullrings such as Las Ventas and Real Maestranza de Caballeria in Seville, smaller rings struggle to make a profit.
If you work in business, you have the freedom to choose the ring you struggle in.
In J. R. R. Tolkien's 500,000-word trilogy, "The Lord of the Rings," the struggle between good and evil winds up with the War of the Ring.
The alarm rings; I struggle with myself; I get out of bed.
The content is programmed in four educational "modules" that recount, in concentric rings, mankind's struggle for emancipation from mental and physical enslavement.
The heavyweight boxing champion, pigeon enthusiast, and noted vegan Mike Tyson makes his Broadway début, in "Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth," a one-man show that looks back on his career in and out of the ring, including his struggles with drug addiction, his frequent run-ins with the law, and, of course, his infamous biting of Evander Holyfield's ear.
In the past five weeks, violence has increased sharply again, and the African Union (AU), which has 6,000 troops in the country with a mandate, endorsed by the UN, to monitor a ceasefire and hold the ring, is still struggling to impose its authority.There are now about 1.8m people in the camps of Darfur and a further 200,000 refugees just across the border in Chad.
He, too, was poised at the ready, back in the ring, deep in the struggle.
