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Example sentences for: struggles

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The accompanying patter goes like this: Families do not allow one member to prosper while another struggles; ergo , we need something like a bigger welfare system or a more progressive tax code.
John Cheever's daughter takes a beating: Jonathan Yardley says Susan Cheever's memoir of her struggles with alcohol is "Grade B literary/journalistic opportunism-cum-sensationalism" (the Washington Post ). Alex Beam goes further in the Boston Globe , calling it a "despicable, wooden memoir."
Microsoft's success, along with its struggles with the Justice Department, is in this genre.
Two years later, the regime lifted martial law after the Pope’s second visit to Poland, and Lech Walesa won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, familiarizing the world with the struggles of Polish workers.
Hopes of setting up a constitutional monarchy were quickly dashed, and Spain was plunged into a century of power struggles at home.