Last week, however, Turner was struggling to invent a formula to satisfy Gusinsky, Gazprom, and the journalists themselves.
Mr. Sui said credit card companies have also struggled to invent new services at the pace of their more nimble Internet competitors.
Most analysts expect it to dominate for the next five years.Despite the fast-waning attractions of Boeing's ageing staple products, it has struggled to invent new aircraft that appeal to its customers.
In between, the penultimate volume of Karl Ove Knausgaard's autobiographical novel cycle, Some Rain Must Fall (Vintage, translated by Don Bartlett), zeroed in on his 20s and the struggle to invent himself as a writer.
This was the general condition of the post-Enlightenment intellectual, and it was allegorized, with dramatic force, by English-language poets, who, as they struggled to invent new poems, first resisted and then matched the examples of great precursor poets — above all Shakespeare and Milton, whose dominance seemed obliteratingly total.
THE conventional wisdom in the writing game is that conflict makes the world go round: novelists struggle to invent it where it doesn't already exist; journalists comb the earth to report on it; poets studiously avoid conflict on the page yet indulge it in their rivalries.
Online media outlets are struggling to invent a sustainable revenue model that will allow them to pay writers.
Labs worldwide are successfully pioneering terahertz emitters for medical diagnostics, wireless communications, and security imaging, but researchers have struggled to invent devices that can pick up the waves and guide them to a receiver.
Not everyone agrees that a breakup is the right fix for Pfizer, which has struggled to invent new blockbusters even as it acquired Warner-Lambert for $114 billion in 2000, Pharmacia for $60 billion in 2003 and Wyeth for $68 billion in 2009.
If I were asked to come up with a "lost" music project, I'd struggle to invent something more intriguing, attractive, and exciting than disco titan Patrick Cowley recording a pre-post-punk, pre-industrial, pre-disco-not-disco experimental dance LP with Jorge Socarras of Indoor Life between 1975 and 1977.
