Exempel på battling

• They had to battle to save his life.

• We've battled with the authorities to change the system.

• I've battled for years to get him promoted.

• I battled with the wind and the rain to get here!

• He's always battling with management to get things changed.

• He provided the media with a human interest angle on politics: he was an approachable politician, an outsider who was battling against entrenched interests.

• This is a legitimate question, especially given that we are still battling weeds in conventional agriculture after 50 years of herbicide use.

• The metaphorical framework of battling disease links his concerns about euthanasia (which he opposes) and iatrogenic illness (which he thinks inadequately opposed).

• The 'greater' jihad entails spiritual warfare, battling those passions of the soul that impede one's cultivation of piety.

• Or do we see their authors as lone swimmers battling against a ceaseless tide of religious diversity?

• The presence of three major dictionaries of larger-than-concise size battling it out for market share suggests that the public is now ready for them.

• But it trains us to respond to tragedy by battling on.

• They were battling against tremendous odds - the church, the authorities, the landowners and the socialists.

• Amazingly, neither vessel had suffered any significant damage during the weeks of battling the ice.

• The two battling rulers stand (probably) on the border between their cities, and their armies are depicted behind them.

• When you write a dictionary, especially in a field as wide-ranging as law, you're battling your own fallibility.

• One - the most superficial perhaps - is the curiosity of watching a famous philosopher battling with what is obviously an especially difficult topic, from his theoretical point of view.

• They knew that the anonymity they enjoyed when battling a debilitated and unmotivated local police would come to an end if a central, suprastructure could track their crimes.

• Still, these photographs represent a generally unknown photographic record of historical significance representing an era of wooden ships and iron men battling against the ice, now completely vanished.

• Desperate xenotransplant subjects might find themselves battling against alarmist community groups.