unequal struggle
collocation in Englishmeaningsofunequalandstruggle
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unequal
adjective
uk/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/us/ʌnˈiː.kwəl/
formal
different in size, level, ...
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struggle
noun[C]
uk/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/us/ˈstrʌɡ.əl/
a very difficult task that you can do only by making a ...
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(Definition ofunequalandstrugglefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The dust arid grime that collect in the rooms seem to dishearten the cleaners, who tend to give up theunequalstruggle.
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Theunequalstrugglebetween an injured worker and a rich, powerful and very persuasive insurance company is also known to many.
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As they can no longer recoup their costs, let alone make the necessary profits, dairy farmers in their thousands are giving up theunequalstruggle.
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It is anunequalstruggle, because capital has the right to close doors, declare workers redundant and determine their rate of pay.
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The future is less clear and there is a danger that some may give up theunequalstruggle.
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It is too soon to attempt any forecast of the outcome of thisunequalstruggle, but its political consequences have already been far-reaching.
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They are not elderly men battered by anunequalstrugglewith a life with which they cannot cope.
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If this drops too low, it is easy to give up theunequalstruggle.
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I should not be surprised to see many of them getting out of theunequalstrugglealtogether.
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We see them losing anunequalstruggle, with a lack of privacy, lack of space and irritation without respite.
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She often gives up theunequalstruggleand subsides in a morass of apathy and carelessness because she is so disheartened.
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Everyone with a knowledge of the area knows that as the years have gone by some have been defeated by theunequalstruggle.
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Three of my tenants have given up theunequalstrugglein the last few years.
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One is to give up theunequalstruggleand accept a second-rate future of fewer items of increasingly inferior equipment for ever smaller forces.
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Gradually their moral fibre is undermined through theunequalstrugglebetween the individual and the military machine.
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I have no doubt that the struggle that will take place in a very short time will be anunequalstrugglefinancially.
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Will he admit that, without the legislation being thus weighted towards employee buyouts, they will be involved in anunequalstrugglewith the giants of the bus industry?
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In his view the ship was too fine a vessel to be risked in anotherunequalstruggle.
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Why, following the 'false dawns' and 'unequal struggles' of the past, have housing associations now found a place in the sun?
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It was anunequalstruggle.
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