Tugs of war

Usage examples of struggles.

It had its own self-jurisdiction, its own military force, its own general assemblies, its own traditions of struggles, glory, and independence, its own relations with other guilds of the same trade in other cities: it had, in a word, a full organic life which could only result from the integrality of the vital functions.

WiseMothers and not the transitory and quickly forgotten struggles, as brief as those of the mayflies, of mortal creatures.

Sexual selection will also give characters useful to the males alone, in their struggles with other males.

However, as soon as we come to a higher stage of civilization, and refer to history which already has something to say about that stage, we are bewildered by the struggles and conflicts which it reveals.

Leaving aside the preconceived ideas of most historians and their pronounced predilection for the dramatic aspects of history, we see that the very documents they habitually peruse are such as to exaggerate the part of human life given to struggles and to underrate its peaceful moods.

Total, 223 years of struggles before conquering the right to independence.

However, the self-assertion of the individual or of groups of individuals, their struggles for superiority, and the conflicts which resulted therefrom, have already been analyzed, described, and glorified from time immemorial.

The struggles between these forces make, in fact, the substance of history.

My interests lie not in earthly struggles but with the composition of the heavens and the glory of creation.

He suspects that to agree will compromise him in some unintended way, but even as he struggles, Liath knows he will lose because he has fallen in love with the fire daimone, a creature so beyond mortal ken that even to call it down to Earth brings death.

The healer sat placidly by the door, watching his struggles without speaking, her kohl-lined eyes intent with curiosity and her broad face as expressionless as uncarved stone.

As they bucked and rolled across the forest, their death struggles carried them only a little way before dissolution overtook them.

His assistant struggles in a sea of aggressive young men carrying note-books or upholding cameras and wearing bowler hats and enterprising ties.

Despite her frightened, wildly slashing struggles, the tendrils caught at her wings, pulled, and slowly dragged her down.