struggle

See:
  • an uphill struggle
  • an uphill struggle/battle/task
  • give up the fight
  • give up the struggle
  • on the struggle bus
  • put up a fight
  • put up a struggle
  • ride the struggle bus
  • struggle against
  • struggle against (someone or something)
  • struggle along
  • struggle along (with something)
  • struggle along under
  • struggle along under (something)
  • struggle buggy
  • struggle bus
  • struggle for
  • struggle for (something)
  • struggle on with
  • struggle on with (something)
  • struggle through
  • struggle through (something)
  • struggle to (do something)
  • struggle to do
  • struggle to the death
  • struggle with
  • struggle with (someone or something)
  • the struggle is real
  • uphill battle
References in classic literature
All these results, as we shall more fully see in the next chapter, follow inevitably from the struggle for life.
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.
Pity, the obliging hand, the warm heart, patience, industry, and humility--these are unquestionably the qualities we shall here find flooded with the light of approval and admiration; because they are the most USEFUL qualities--; they make life endurable, they are of assistance in the "struggle for existence" which is the motive force behind the people practising this morality.
It was just this contact that was needed to centralise the numerous local struggles, all of the same character, into one national struggle between classes.
It tells much the same story, the story of the struggle between Good and Evil for the possession of man's soul.
We say that the class struggle is a law of social development.
Passepartout and his companions had begun to struggle with their captors, three of whom the Frenchman had felled with his fists, when his master and the soldiers hastened up to their relief.
With her it was a deep religious conviction that the struggle round her was of the powers of Good and Evil, and that Good was triumphing.
I was no more myself than a drowning man is who continues to struggle after he has lost consciousness.
Dunster seemed, for a moment, to struggle for composure.
If it were not wrong--if she were once convinced of that, and need no longer beat and struggle against this current, soft and yet strong as the summer stream!
But there is something fine in the sudden passing away of these hearts from the extremity of struggle and stress and tremendous uproar - from the vast, unrestful rage of the surface to the profound peace of the depths, sleeping untroubled since the beginning of ages.
The Abraham Lincoln, not being able to struggle with such velocity, had moderated its pace, and sailed at half speed.
So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning--the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lash- ing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Thames, and hurrying by every available channel northward and east- ward.
Politics for Aristotle is not a struggle between individuals or classes for power, nor a device for getting done such elementary tasks as the maintenance of order and security without too great encroachments on individual liberty.