Gilroy's ache-filled play about the Irish Cleary family did not miss a beat when transformed into a black family's struggle to effect a coming to terms between parents and child.
They have struggled to document the effect of the natural gas drilling commonly known as fracking.
The earth's history offers no exact parallel to the human combustion of fossil fuels, so scientists have struggled to calculate the effect.
A state task force concluded the same year that the system was fundamentally broken and recommended sweeping changes that state officials have struggled to put into effect.
Couillard has been working all year on a video game called Alien Afterlife, which, appropriately enough, sounds like a metaphor for the struggle to effect change.
Even so, there is still plenty of research to be done, and plenty to argue about.Both schools have struggled to disentangle the effects of trade from those of technology.
The town is an outpost of the financial services industry: there were more suits aboard the 6.30am train from London than day-trippers.In a convention centre overlooking the pier this week, the annual conference of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) struggled to achieve a similar effect.
The residents struggled to prove the ill effects of the fallout, however, and years of court battles followed.
In addition to corruption, China struggled to contain the damaging effects of a series of food- and drug-safety scandals.
The nation's banks have struggled to escape the cascading effects of paralysis in the debt markets and the decline in home values.
