bitter struggle

collocation in English

meaningsofbitterandstruggle

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bitter
adjective
uk
/ˈbɪt.ər/us
/ˈbɪt̬.ɚ/
Someone who is bitter is angry and unhappy because they cannot forget bad things that happened in ...
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struggle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/us
/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/
a very difficult task that you can do only by making a ...
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(Definition ofbitterandstrugglefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What will happen will be abitterstruggle, a fight, a race.
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In most cases, these 130 countries are engaged in abitterstrugglewith some opposition or other, often of a racial character.
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The workers will be discharged and the oldbitterstrugglewill go on quicker and quicker, as it did in 1920, 1930 and 1931.
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The year 1941 was one ofbitterstruggle.
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I took part in that longbitterstrugglefor the women's vote before the last war.
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The creation of this society has involvedbitterstruggle, civil war and—not least—great world wars.
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The war we have to face will be abitterstruggleof efficiency in the economic field.
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That could be done, and if such a guarantee were to be given to the miners a solution could be found to thisbitterstruggle.
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It was abitterstruggle, and it caused very-ugly results.
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During thebitterstrugglein the printing industry, he kept in close touch with his union and with the men on the picket lines.
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Is it any wonder that councils are preparing for abitterstruggle?
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It has been made clear that it would involve abitterstruggleabout retrospection.
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For the farmer-landowner to surrender his land without abitterstruggleis a very serious point.
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The sympathy which is felt for her in her long andbitterstruggleis universal in this country.
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In spite of our colossal expenditure upon war purposes there is a vast population which has abitterstrugglefor existence.
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They have, of course, been compounded by the unilateral declaration of independence in thebitterstrugglethat took place these past 14 years.
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It has made it abitterstrugglefor power instead of what it should be—a mutually advantageous exchange of goods.
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It is no fight with kid gloves when the miners and coal-owners fall out: it is abitterstruggle.
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Only this year, for the first time, has there been a trade union nominee on the committee, and this was achieved only after abitterstruggle.
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No act of reconciliation after abitterstrugglehas ever produced so rich a harvest in good will or effects that lasted so long upon affairs.
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