Collocations withstruggle
These are words often used in combination withstruggle.
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armed struggle
They could not count on the same degree of popular support following any decision to start an armed struggle for power.
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bitter struggle
What will happen will be a bitter struggle, a fight, a race.
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constant struggle
There was a constant struggle against decay here as well, but, following extant paths, these roads at least met something of a popularly felt need.
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continual struggle
So it's been a continual struggle for me to counter those values.
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continuing struggle
It must be won, but it is only a major episode in a continuing struggle.
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continuous struggle
The current crisis involves a continuous struggle over the drawing of boundaries, because the boundaries of the public space are constantly negotiated.
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daily struggle
It is an interesting counterpoint to hear about one group among whom fellowship is based on the daily struggle of staying sober.
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defensive struggle
It was a defensive struggle with both teams having great difficulty in gaining yardage.
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desperate struggle
Such a desperate struggle to attain understanding raged within him that it was terrifying to look upon his face.
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ensuing struggle
The central chapters of this book relate the ensuing struggle between the coppermasters and their farming neighbours, centring on a series of lawsuits heard between the 1830s and the 1890s.
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eternal struggle
In tank warfare, as in battleship construction, there is an eternal struggle between armour and armament.
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factional struggle
The events should be seen as part of a factional struggle at the highest levels of the regime.
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fierce struggle
Their coming into contact with each other thus set in place a context for a fierce struggle for political and cultural dominance.
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heroic struggle
Is the search for panacea an identification with a heroic struggle?
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ideological struggle
Such an apparently decisive choice of collective identity obscures the undercurrents of ideological struggle in the region.
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inner struggle
Complexity, inner struggle and hesitation, rather than ideological devotion and clear-cut intellectual engagement, were the products of this multilayered ambivalence.
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internal struggle
Now he appears alone, coming to grips, probably in an obbligato recitative, with his internal struggle.
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ongoing struggle
At the heart of her narrative is the ongoing struggle between two competing visions of the best way to promote consumer interests.
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painful struggle
They have had a difficult and painful struggle and the credit belongs to them.
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prolonged struggle
Or was it just one more tool in a prolonged struggle to establish their independence, raising one issue in order to squeeze concessions elsewhere?
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protracted struggle
The subject also inevitably produced caustic and protracted struggle between municipal, state and ecclesiastical authorities for the regulation and control of morals.
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revolutionary struggle
In the controversy that followed, matters involving intellectual property and opera aesthetics were linked to revolutionary struggle.
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unequal struggle
The dust arid grime that collect in the rooms seem to dishearten the cleaners, who tend to give up the unequal struggle.
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uphill struggle
Without this development the composing curriculum will continue to be an uphill struggle.
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violent struggle
However, when violent struggle cannot achieve this end, the level of violence and organized movements that are behind it usually decline.
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