Sentence examples for struggle for mastery from inspiring English sources
The type of control that most interests Glück, however, is the struggle for mastery among and within people.
Love is ambivalently both an enduring ideal relationship and a struggle for mastery in which the male has the upper hand.
If you are looking for a reliable one-volume account of that "struggle for mastery" in Europe, this is the book for you.
To the west, two non-Greek cities, Carthage and Rome, began to struggle for mastery, and, after the defeat of the Carthaginian general Hannibal at Zama (202 bce), Rome emerged as the strongest state in the Mediterranean.
It is this sense of "Sunni solidarity" that is becoming the decisive factor in the war for the soul of Islam, and in the struggle for mastery in the Middle East that is now underway.
The Chinese have good reasons for not wanting to budge (see article) just now, with which some American officials privately (and many economists publicly) sympathise.Mr Friedberg, in his November 2000 article in Commentary magazine, "The Struggle for Mastery in Asia", argued that all this trade and investment could make China richer and, from America's perspective, more benign.
According to Zoroaster, a good and evil force struggled for mastery in the universe.
But a struggle for the mastery of Central Asia is again unfolding.
Lt. Col. Myron Baker of the 74th reported, "Being overpowered after a desperate struggle for the mastery of the ground, I ordered the regiment to fall back, and took position on a ridge about 300 yards in rear of where our advance was checked".
Out of this, the struggle for intellectual mastery between the older brothers, William and Henry — the elder ("a tortured late bloomer") taking many years of trial and tribulation to become the great psychologist and philosopher; the younger energetically forging his way as America's novelist-in-exile — as soon as he could.
Though they may seem impossibly exotic, they speak to eternal questions, like the struggle for self-mastery.
