struggle against

struggle against (someone or something)

1. To exert a lot of physical energy to overcome someone or some force, barrier, or restriction. I struggled against the handcuffs, but there was no way to get out of them. The wind was blowing so hard that I had to struggle against the door to get it open. The criminal struggled against the two police officers as they led him away to the squad car.
2. To make a strenuous, determined effort to resist, overcome, or fight against someone or something. The rebels have been struggling against the regime for nearly a decade. Our country has struggled against many difficulties since gaining independence, but we've always managed to persevere. I know she's been struggling against addiction for a number or years.
See also: struggle
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

struggle against someone or something

to strive or battle against someone or something. There is no point in struggling against me. I will win out. He struggled against the disease for a year before he died.
See also: struggle
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • struggle against (someone or something)
  • strain at
  • strain at (something)
  • break loose from
  • break loose from (someone or something)
  • not know (one's) own strength
  • bring it weak
  • lead (one) (around) by the nose
  • lead by the nose
  • lead somebody by the nose
References in classic literature
To struggle against it, in their exhausted condition, was impossible, so cowering under an impending rock at the foot of a steep mountain, they prepared themselves for that wretched fate which seemed inevitable.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountain
LAHORE -- Paying rich tribute to the sacrifices rendered by Kashmiri women during the seven decades long struggle against the Indian occupation of Kashmir, Jamaat-e-Islami chief Sirajul Haq has asked Pakistani women to extend their full support to the Kashmir cause.
Siraj seeks women's role in Kashmir movement
In the meeting, al-Ra'i praised the Palestinian resistance's role and its legitimate struggle against the Zionist enemy, stressed the importance of the Palestinian national factions' unity in confronting the Zionist enemy.
Parliament Speaker meets Palestinian Hamas acting representative
KARACHI -- Speakers here Sunday at a moot on the occasion of the completion of 50 years of the movement of 1968 said that this movement is still a symbol of struggle against capitalism, imperialism and dictatorship.
Struggle urged to fight capitalism, imperialism and dictatorship
ISLAMABAD:Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed his resolve to follow the ideology of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and philosophy of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto by continuing his struggle against anti-democratic forces in Pakistan.
PPP to continue struggle against anti-democratic forces: Zardari
It features many previously unseen items belonging to the lawyer, political prisoner, world leader and symbol of the struggle against oppression.
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Two dozen militants surrender, abandon armed struggle against the state
Five suspected militants killed in Dera Bugti
the leftist leaders in Sindh Saqi's name was counted among the top notch persons who actively took part in struggle against the regimes of Gen.
AG Sindh condoles with family of Jam Saqi
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Warburton's Forest can earn you bread
Summary: Report claims Tunisian president called Iran the 'sole hope for struggle against Israel'
Tunisia denies Al Sebsi comments praising Iran
The Albanian Opposition Council announced that it terminated the activities for uniting all political forces in the struggle against BDI-PDSH rivals.
The opposition council realized its mission
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) in Occupied Jerusalem has omitted all texts and pictures that are related to Palestine and the struggle against the occupation from Palestinian school books before its distribution.
Israel erases Palestine-related contents from school books in J'lem
Written by Baruch Hirson, a South African activist and scholar who was intimately involved in the movement, the book provides an unparalleled insight into the origins and events of the uprising, from its antecedents in the early 1970s such as the Sharpeville Massacre, to its role in galvanising the global struggle against apartheid.
Year of Fire Year of Ash
The author covers the phenomenon of adapting against domination, power and majority rule, the stakes of political conflict, the conflict between democracy and republicanism, the concept of a world government and the struggle against it, resisting domination across borders, and the politics of domination and the political struggle against it over the bookAEs seven chapters.
Politics Against Domination