I.verbCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bitter fight/struggle
▪ The law was passed after a bitter fight that lasted nearly a decade.
a desperate struggle/battle/fight
▪ The climbers faced a desperate struggle to reach safety.
a power struggle (=a situation in which groups or leaders try to get control)
▪ The country is locked in a power struggle between forces favouring and opposing change.
armed struggle (=fighting with weapons)
▪ There is very little support for an armed struggle against the government.
battle/struggle against the odds (=work hard despite great difficulties)
▪ The Coastguard was battling against the odds to keep the oil spill from reaching the shore.
break/pull/struggle free
▪ She broke free from her attacker.
class struggle
fight/struggle for survival
▪ Many construction companies are fighting for survival.
heroic struggle
▪ Lawrence’s heroic struggle against his destiny
sb’s fight/struggle/battle for survival
▪ Their lives had been one long struggle for survival.
struggle to breathe
▪ The crowd pressed in around me and I struggled to breathe.
struggle to cope
▪ Hospital wards are struggling to cope with the injured.
the class struggle/war (=disagreement or fighting between different classes)
▪ the class struggle between workers and capitalists
the struggle for independence
▪ The struggle for independence continued for three decades.
the struggle/fight for equality
▪ the people who led the struggle for equality in the United States
the struggle/fight for freedom
▪ The student movement played an important role in the struggle for political freedom.
wage a campaign/struggle/battle etc
▪ The council has waged a vigorous campaign against the proposal.
wrestle/struggle with your conscience (=struggle to decide whether it is right or wrong do something)
▪ She wrestled with her conscience for weeks before deciding not to leave him.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
end
▪ Clearly he's struggling to make ends meet on his meagre salary.
▪ Traditionally, students like these struggle at the lower end of the education ladder.
▪ But for the vast majority of families who struggle to make ends meet without welfare, the speech could strike a chord.
▪ Non-college women with children struggling to make ends meet have a different agenda from that of single college-educated women with hot careers.
▪ If Apollo was indeed following her, the case was hopeless, but she was determined to struggle to the very end.
▪ Her parents were struggling to make ends meet while rearing six children.
■ VERB
begin
▪ Wilkins began struggling with a constable and pushed him into a bush.
▪ Horacio shifts into first gear and the bus begins to struggle up the hillside.
▪ Your business would probably soon begin to struggle, as the search for a replacement proceeded.
▪ Rather than only recoiling, I began to struggle actively against him.
▪ Half an hour later he reached the rutted track and began to struggle up on his bike.
▪ Just then, a car pulled up, and an old woman began struggling to get out of the passenger side.
▪ She began to struggle, to twist her head, and writhe against her bonds.
▪ The darkness of the interior only increased the animal's terror, and immediately it began to struggle frantically to free itself.
continue
▪ More importantly, she continued to struggle with the increasingly demanding role of Mrs Hoffman.
▪ The hospital continues to struggle to correctly bill insurance providers and state and federal indigent health care plans.
▪ I see these Tours continuing to struggle as sponsors' money is attracted towards the best.
▪ It was along the defensive front that the Raiders continued to struggle.
▪ For years after, Louis Harper continued to struggle to keep it clean.
▪ Until this team gets healthy, and you wonder whether it ever will, the Suns will continue to struggle.
▪ Time allowed 00:08 Read in studio Gloucestershire are continuing to struggle on the cricket field.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an uphill struggle/battle/task etc
▪ However, each parlor faces an uphill battle because the city hired a financial consulting firm to review the applications.
▪ It proved to be an uphill struggle, and was far from successful.
▪ Kopp said he faced an uphill battle in winning approval for the bill.
▪ Rehabilitation will be an uphill struggle.
▪ Smith said gay-rights advocates still believe they are fighting an uphill battle in opposing the bill.
▪ Unless you have a goal your learning will be an uphill struggle.
▪ Voice over Police are hoping to trace original owners but admit it's an uphill task.
▪ While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It seems that he struggled with the robber and got quite seriously hurt.
▪ Johnny is struggling in school.
▪ She tried to struggle but he put his hand over her mouth.
▪ The victim had obviously struggled furiously against her attacker.
▪ Vince struggled to free himself from the policeman's grip.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ally Mauchlen, substituted on Saturday with a groin strain, is also struggling to make it.
▪ I struggled and shouted as he dragged me out into the corridor.
▪ In a small way, private schemes also exist in Maryland and Ohio, though these too have been struggling of late.
▪ Sethe slid to the floor and struggled to get back into her dress.
▪ The couple had struggled to convince the public of their sincerity.
▪ Underresourced hospitals struggle to provide medicines and care.
▪ When you are first struggling to make your business a success, you are particularly vulnerable.
II.nounCOLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
armed
▪ He called on them to abandon their armed struggle.
▪ This is a crusading, flamboyant Marxism, emphasising the role of the supposedly heroic and glamorous armed struggle.
▪ There are times when armed struggle is necessary.
▪ Unlike so many victims of the armed struggle for the reunification of Ireland.
▪ The duty of the people of the West Bank was to await liberation through armed struggle.
▪ Schools and other infrastructure had been destroyed and society disrupted during the armed struggle.
▪ But when are things like self-defense and armed struggle justified?
bitter
▪ It will be a bitter struggle against myself but I know I can do it.
▪ The Buccaneers, locked in a bitter struggle for a new stadium, could attempt to leave Tampa Bay after next season.
▪ But the Bolsheviks were determined to frustrate them and immediately after October a bitter struggle ensued between the workers and the party.
▪ They would not understand what a bitter struggle my whole life has been.
▪ He contrasts the love themes of Romeo and Juliet with those which accompany the bitter struggles and fights between Montague and Capulet.
▪ This bitter struggle was personified by the Soong family, for years rent by political differences and petty jealousies.
▪ Meanwhile Newcastle have delivered a bizarre snub to the losers in the bitter power struggle against chairman Sir John Hall.
▪ It was a long and bitter struggle with great losses on both sides, causing a serious weakening of the imperial army.
constant
▪ Organisational politics involve constant struggles for control, and choices of structure, technology and organisational goals are part of this process.
▪ It had been a constant struggle for fifteen years.
▪ We hate the constant struggle to keep order - but the alternative is worse.
▪ Our colors run together, and it is a constant struggle to keep a neat palette with each hue in its place.
▪ What is ultimately of most significance in Foucault's work is this recognition of the constant struggles within the definitions of sexuality.
▪ It was a constant struggle to stay one step ahead of thrift regulators in Washington.
▪ Its history has a message for evolution: that the existence of any creature is a constant struggle against relentless forces.
▪ As we have said, television news is in a constant struggle with time, and time is a fierce adversary.
desperate
▪ A snowy wasteland yields the third key, but only after a desperate struggle with its guardians, the Ice Soldiers.
▪ But we would not give it up without a desperate struggle.
▪ Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby.
great
▪ Further, the larger the system, the greater the struggle for power, influence and promotion.
▪ The great struggle, we are told, is to adapt to these conditions.
▪ It was a great struggle for him and we all suffered because of it.
▪ The great struggle of the universe is not between Church and State, but between two opposing ways of life.
▪ Trying to get the real allies in a case is often a great struggle.
heroic
▪ This is not what the Suffragettes, and others, envisaged in their heroic struggles to win the vote.
▪ The strategy developed by the revolutionary populists reflected the same mixture of heroic struggle for the peasantry's cause and utopian illusions.
internal
▪ Competition is manifested in internal struggles for land, resources and power.
▪ Numerous nations have not only experienced external threats, but have been torn apart by internal struggle as well.
▪ The character of the administration will be determined by the factions that win the internal struggle for position.
▪ The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle.
long
▪ Throughout his long struggle with Giraud, de Gaulle depicted himself as the one who was in touch with the aspirations of the Resistance.
▪ For the Vikings it turned out to be a long, rewarding struggle.
▪ As a result of his long struggles Gorfang has acquired an unreasoning hatred of the Dwarf race.
▪ If both are in lockstep mentally, it will be a long, exhausting struggle.
▪ There had been a long struggle.
▪ His challenge was to maintain his vision during the long struggle of product development.
▪ Security Government forces made some progress during 1990 in their long struggle against ethnic insurgents operating on the country's periphery.
▪ For some, life becomes one long struggle to conquer; the commitment is to conquest.
political
▪ Contemporary political struggles organised on religious lines clearly need social and economic explanations.
▪ But he has been involved in some difficult political struggles since then.
▪ In acquisitiveness and greed there was little to choose between the victors and the vanquished in the political struggles of the 1320s.
▪ Rather, they require a careful analysis of contemporary political struggles over questions of representation, symbolic boundary formation, and identification.
▪ An identification is then implicitly or explicitly made with parallel forms of political struggle in our own day.
▪ Western countries can do little to influence the political power struggle currently going on in Moscow.
real
▪ The real pressures on these people were not racial but political, and their real struggle was almost entirely economic.
▪ Now, I am going through a real struggle with my emotions and beliefs at this time.
▪ The real struggle was transnational, horizontal, across the nations.
▪ It was a real struggle, which was kind of surprising because 1994 was a great year, my best ever.
▪ We had a real struggle, then Edward practically took his hands off.
▪ After a 20 hour day, this soon became a real struggle.
▪ Brecht in particular dealt with the relationship between real struggle and the metaphorical or symbolical illumination of struggle in art.
▪ In the Brechtian aesthetic, the real struggles of life and oppressed peoples can not be shown, as it were, naturally.
uphill
▪ It proved to be an uphill struggle, and was far from successful.
▪ Dole, who arrived in San Diego Monday, still faces an uphill struggle in the state.
▪ Yet it will be an uphill struggle.
▪ But it has been an uphill struggle.
▪ Unless you have a goal your learning will be an uphill struggle.
▪ It's been an uphill struggle out there.
▪ For most players it will be an uphill struggle but for some one, it will represent the summit of his career.
■ NOUN
class
▪ But in doing this they do not wield a power which is independent of the class struggle.
▪ The class approach centers on the examination of the tactics of class domination and the dynamics of the class struggle.
▪ Firstly, they are multi-class, which does not mean that class struggles do not exist.
▪ In the liberal view, the historical process is altogether too rich and complex to be reduced to class struggle.
▪ History constituted a vital part of the class struggle.
▪ Equality in poverty might mean civil population contentment whereas glaring inequalities sow the seeds of a class struggle or revolution.
▪ Concessions which judges make to workers at one moment in the class struggle may be removed at another.
▪ Class and social change Class struggle Marx believed that the class struggle was the driving force of social change.
liberation
▪ Both the Sandinistas and Frelimo came to power after a liberation struggle against highly repressive regimes.
▪ The detente coincided with the magnificent spring offensive possiblY the military high point of the national liberation struggle.
▪ The nucleus of each village was for the most part made up of the Frelimo guerillas who had fought in the liberation struggle.
▪ So is study of the liberation struggle.
▪ Women participate in the national liberation struggle and have never considered they should be struggling to liberate themselves from men.
▪ Now women participating in the liberation struggle are finding new roles.
▪ Another region which suffered badly both during the liberation struggle and in recent years is the North-eastern region in the Zambezi valley.
▪ It is run by a generation of elderly men who have not been able to move on from the liberation struggle.
power
▪ The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle.
▪ A power struggle develops, as the toddler digs in his heels even further the more his father takes over.
▪ The events and power struggles which engulf them result in kidnapping, jealousy and romance!
▪ Will there be a power struggle between Parks and the business side in their presentations to Willes?
▪ The most memorable thing about the complex power struggle that had this result was the fate of the losers.
▪ Throughout the Kuomintang, as within the Soong family, the power struggle was played out in subtle intrigues and inscrutable maneuvers.
▪ Resentments, rivalry, rebuffs and power struggles appear to have knocked the stuffing out of you and undermined your confidence.
▪ His assignment seems to have been the result of a military victory in a top-level power struggle with the civilians.
■ VERB
continue
▪ Hamilton, asked for his views, advocated continuing the struggle and, in consequence, was recalled on 15 October.
▪ It has continued to struggle, as it has for more than a decade, to upgrade its computer and data-processing systems.
▪ Indeed it is a testimony to the value of computers that these poor souls still continue the struggle with the machine.
▪ The logical progression was for Wiwa to continue his father's struggle.
▪ It pledged to continue the struggle for democratic representation but appealed to its supporters to continue to exercise restraint.
engage
▪ Women, increasingly, were engaged in industrial struggle: at Ford in Hull with Lil Bilocca's fishermen's wives.
▪ Neo-Classicism was engaged in a struggle for its survival.
▪ It did not engage in the struggle for mass cultural-political hegemony.
▪ When cells fuse, the rival bacteria in each engage in a struggle to the death.
▪ Gary was used to trying to make the rules and then engaging in endless power struggles over them with his son.
face
▪ The results mean that several key councils could face a struggle for power.
▪ Dole, who arrived in San Diego Monday, still faces an uphill struggle in the state.
▪ Unless they show a dramatic change in form, they could face a struggle for the rest of the season.
▪ Many thousands of people face the daily struggle of trying to look forward with hope when they do not have a job.
▪ In societies where people face a constant struggle against starvation and have a plain, unvaried diet, cravings are virtually unknown.
▪ The traders still face a struggle.
▪ After crashing in qualifying Hakkinen lost crucial track time, and seemed to be facing an uphill struggle.
▪ The majority of infertile men face an emotional struggle against guilt and uncertainty.
lose
▪ The first one to crack loses the struggle.
▪ Authors will grow weary finally of a losing struggle.
▪ Exhausted by infighting, humiliated by his foes, he seemed on the verge of losing his struggle with parliament.
▪ But getting health insurers to pay for the promised sessions is, in many cases, a losing struggle.
▪ On the other side, what did Innocent or the papacy lose in the long struggle?
▪ Who will win and who will lose these struggles is not a foregone conclusion.
▪ The conservatives will lose this struggle, and their defeat will reverberate through fundamentalism everywhere.
▪ Perhaps these inhabitants of the underworld were slowly losing the struggle.
win
▪ How could a man, however unique, win such a struggle?
▪ The Nuggets won in a struggle at Minnesota.
▪ Accounts of Beria have been heavily influenced by the version put out by Khrushchev, who won the struggle for the succession.
▪ The character of the administration will be determined by the factions that win the internal struggle for position.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
an uphill struggle/battle/task etc
▪ However, each parlor faces an uphill battle because the city hired a financial consulting firm to review the applications.
▪ It proved to be an uphill struggle, and was far from successful.
▪ Kopp said he faced an uphill battle in winning approval for the bill.
▪ Rehabilitation will be an uphill struggle.
▪ Smith said gay-rights advocates still believe they are fighting an uphill battle in opposing the bill.
▪ Unless you have a goal your learning will be an uphill struggle.
▪ Voice over Police are hoping to trace original owners but admit it's an uphill task.
▪ While critics of his decision gained momentum Thursday, the record shows they face an uphill battle.
put up a fight/struggle/resistance
▪ By then I realized it was all too late anyway so I didn't put up a fight.
▪ Had he, perhaps, put up a fight?
▪ I bet you did that last night. - Did she put up a fight, then?
▪ I start running, but my body puts up a fight.
▪ Instead of dragging everything into the open and putting up a fight, I held on in silence.
▪ Not only relieved by beating Dallas, but yes, this team can put up a fight.
▪ The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He devoted his life to the struggle against fascism and oppression.
▪ Many freedom fighters were imprisoned, but they never gave up the struggle.
▪ Nkrumah led the people in their struggle for independence.
▪ The suspect died after a violent struggle with police officers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Eva had seen the hard financial struggle her parents had faced.
▪ I cut through shallow, sandy hills, but the struggle was anaesthetized by day-dreams.
▪ If you persist in bringing to us your iron and flame, the struggle will be long.
▪ Isolation, the call for a lonely struggle against hostile critics, will not help.
▪ It is the struggle to suppress our pain which really hurts.
▪ No more are we just reacting, helpless pawns in a struggle between the medical profession and death.
▪ Stein and Eberhardt are not alone in their struggles.
▪ The struggle with the skirmishers lasted all morning, with additional blue columns arriving on the field from time to time.