Sentence examples for while grappling from inspiring English sources

I got up but the microphone stand was set too high, so I spent a while grappling with it.

She did not learn she was living with HIV until she was nine years old, and she quickly had to transition to an adult clinic, all the while grappling with schooling, planning her career and dreaming of a future family, knowing that living with HIV could present any number of barriers to these hopes.

He is playing more minutes than ever, with greater responsibilities than ever, while grappling with his newfound popularity.

US Airways, he said, must devise a simplified low-fare structure while grappling with higher operating costs than any competitor.

They can find themselves under investigation by several different offices of the same federal agency while grappling with other federal departments, state ones and class-action lawsuits.

While grappling with 3-D might seem like a full-time job, the real creative work — and passion — went into the puppetry.

William Colby, the director of central intelligence, set Mr. Nelson's proposal aside while grappling with Congressional investigations of the C.I.A.'s work.

As in her hallucinatory and inventive fiction, Luiselli proves her skill as a storyteller while grappling with her own questions of nationalism.

Annie says there is not enough acknowledgement of the quiet role secondary victims play in trying to be supportive while grappling with their anger and sadness.

Congress and the administration need to tread more carefully, making sure to preserve the great promise of therapeutic cloning while grappling with the ethical issues that cloning raises.

For students attending university, pressure to thrive academically and socially--while grappling with the new responsibilities of independence--can produce feelings of loneliness, even amidst a crowd.