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The workmen struggled fiercely and one of them lost his temper. He threatened to call the police.

Had it not been for Heidelberg's takeover, he says, Hanson might have struggled to survive on its own.

But out of sight of his white friends, mother, and grandparents, Barry struggled to understand what being African-American meant.

I managed not to spin the wheels, while other drivers struggled for grip and I managed to move up to second.

As he struggled to get free, I ran up and sucker punched him in the gut.

Chelsea captain John Terry struggled with a foot injury but he said: "There was no way I was coming off. "

As the airborne units struggled to achieve their goals, the great fleet made its way across the channel to its appointment with destiny.

And as I struggled to understand that, I came up with a way of framing the question that seemed to work for me in my investigations.

As he struggled to get his shirt over his head, he was struck with a brilliant idea.

And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus?

The carmaker's owner is trying to finalise a financing deal with Chinese backers, but has struggled to pay workers in the interim.

I struggled out and looked up, only to see many strange faces and fingers pointing at me.

She saw with pain how much he struggled with the family's strange situation.

Thornton has struggled with inconsistency and inefficiency in his two professional seasons and Mike Dunleavy might have finally had enough.

I struggled trying to understand what was happening to me.

Many online magazines have struggled to balance free content with paid services, and Salon tends to be a little ad heavy at times.

I struggled a bit this week on what I wanted to share with you.

She struggled, she began to cry out for mercy, but I held her fast, forcing back her head and staring down into her face.

Wal-Mart has struggled with five straight quarters of declines in revenue at stores open at least a year.

as we struggled up the mountain in the dark , it was devil take the hindmost ? each man was concerned only for his own safety.

This season has been a bit strange. We have done really well against all the top teams but have sometimes struggled to beat the others.

The agency, BEA, said the plane received inconsistent airspeed readings from different instruments as it struggled in a huge thunderstorm.

On occasions Mr Parry was seen to wring his hands as he struggled with his emotions.

Ms. Chua wrote most of the book in eight weeks, yet struggled with the end, she said, reflecting the East-West tug on her parenting.

A woman with a cast on her left arm struggled along in improbable heels, while another had only a huge blue teddy bear for luggage.

I struggled with it since the very beginning of writing 3D engines and still have no satisfactory solution to it.

The company has struggled ever since it was formed by the merger of France's Alcatel and Lucent Technologies of the U. S. five years ago.

On arriving at the shore, the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen. That was all she remembered.

The guards came and gently herded us all to the doors; I struggled not to cry, but began to anyway, out of exhaustion and desire.

His wife, Empress Michiko, has long struggled with her position in the family, with consequences for her health.

He did better, but continued to have difficulty with some of the same concepts he had struggled with the previous semester.

They were all dressed in red clothes with Olympic logos on them, and struggled for breath as they passed on the torch one to another.

Months afterward the hope within me struggled to a reluctant death, and I found myself without an ambition. But I was ashamed to go home.

The company had sought to sell off major assets to help repay the United States. But it has struggled to find buyers willing to pay enough.

They struggled for a moment, tugging, till the woman wrenched the weapon from his fingers and clouted him across the temple with its butt.

The former Old Trafford and England star lifted the lid on three years of pain as he struggled to overcome crippling knee tendon problems.

Mourinho admitted that his team had shown "psychological problems" in an opening period when they struggled to get out of their own half.

She struggled with how to help the child bear the loss of his father. And she decided to turn to a culture different from her own.

So, covered with blood and scratches, she struggled out on the other side of the fence, and began to look for water to wash herself in.

He still did not open his eyes, just listened as she struggled back into her pants, lay there as she wiped him gently with a tissue.

Still, when a Joplin family recently called to tell her one of her former patients died, she struggled.

Mom, I struggled to work for you and child outside, but he also isn't willing to understand me.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger said the university has struggled to recover from the tragedy - a process that continues to this day.

In the morning, he struggled to free himself from the children, who overwhelmed him with lighthearted questions: How far was the lake?

China has struggled to offer some form of universal coverage and funding such a vast system has been a persistent problem.

Dexia was one of the first European banks to seek a bail-out in 2008, but it has struggled ever since.

In the surface lands far above Menzoberranzan, winter was beginning to ebb, and themiddaysun struggled to warm the harsh landscape.

He told his fellow politicians that as a Catholic brought up to think marriage was between a man and woman, he struggled with the decision.

As she struggled to free herself, she lost one of her Air Jordans, and then the other.

Hurriedly Alan struggled out of his sleeping bag and began to search the grounds of the monastery.

it was what every sensible woman would show: but Tess knew that she had been thoughtful to excess, and struggled against it.

Sure, I struggled a lot trying to just survive past all those exams I had last week, but I can now say I passed a challenge.

Renault's Pat Symonds said the team had struggled for grip when it was cooler, and that the higher temperatures had helped.

If he struggled, his hands would have been tied and a choke knot applied to his neck.

My house is home to plenty of technology, but I struggled to come up with anything that might be considered a historical object.

As I neared the last pen a dog in the shadows of the far corner struggled to his feet, walked to the front of the run and sat down.

As an adult, she's struggled for work but had been a regular on her local karaoke circuit and performed in church choirs .

Historically, business partners have struggled to state quantitative expectations for the business service provided by an application.

He said the government's strategic plan to re - launch French wine on the world stage had struggled to get off the ground so far.

But the brilliant satirist had a hard time figuring out what rules to break as he struggled for years to tell his own life story.

As the New York Times put it, he "struggled for much of his life with his weight, with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing. "

The audience struggled to grasp the punch lines, and Mr. Wong recalls looking out on the blank faces of a 'polite but serious' crowd.

In the nights the French dispersed to get round the Russians, hid themselves in the woods, and all that could struggled on again.

They struggled for a moment, and then he held her down and, with Mrs Poole's help, tied her to a chair.

The protagonists have all struggled with loss and hardship and, with a bit of help, have managed to get back on their feet.

He struggled to get back to his feet while people around him laughed. Fortunately, he seemed to be O. K.

She said an MRI exam this week showed no structural damage, but she struggled warming up Thursday morning.

Head said he thought he was better equipped to play the position than he was early in the season, when he struggled at the point.

Her eyes glistened with tears as she struggled to control her emotions.

He struggled among the ruck of writers so as to hold a place in the immature literary circles of America.

Even in good times, the Post lost millions of dollars a year and the Daily News struggled to turn a modest profit.

While Carra had always been a first-team regular at Anfield, he'd somehow struggled to get the recognition he deserved.

The young man struggled hard and finally managed to get out and the first thing he did was to gasp and take deep breath.

It seems to offer a solution to two quandaries that Mr Brown's cabinet has struggled with in its thinking about public services.

On arriving at the shore. she struggled up a cliff towards the light she had seen. that was all she remember.

The province also suffered from four years of sub-par economic growth as it struggled to work off its fixed-asset investment binge.

London struggled to return to normality, a week after four bombs killed at least 52 people and injured around 700.

It shows me that in a phase that I struggled I was still able to take some points.

"We struggled to see in New Moon a metaphor of teen conformity and longing but found only a muddle, " sniffs the Hollywood Reporter.

With a few noticeable exceptions, most have struggled to develop their mainland footprint in the face of protectionist regulations.

When we were amoebas and fish we struggled to get out of the sea without gravity crushing us.

It had been raining heavily prior to the match, which meant many fans struggled to arrive on time.

He shouted, struggled, pleaded with his neighbours to help him, but they looked on in a silent group outside the door.

Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou has struggled to win support from his own party to pass the unpopular legislation.

I struggled so hard against my sexual desires, trying to control them, and ultimately this terrible thing took place.

Designers found that large numbers of men complained that they struggled to maintain erections when using conventional condoms in sex.

I struggled out of his pocket a crumpled hundred notes, lightly dust on the piano off the counter product.

All struggled to make a contribution, but there is no doubt they had greater knowledge than many politicians.

Her advisers struggled for years before she became chancellor to get her to sharpen her pageboy haircut and frumpy clothes.

Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with an invasion of red imported fire ants from Brazil.

I struggled out of his pocket a crumpled hundred notes, lightly dust on the piano off the counter product.

All struggled to make a contribution, but there is no doubt they had greater knowledge than many politicians.

Her advisers struggled for years before she became chancellor to get her to sharpen her pageboy haircut and frumpy clothes.

Farmers in parts of the United States have struggled for years with an invasion of red imported fire ants from Brazil.

Both sides struggled to master treacherous conditions underfoot and the early action was more akin to Dancing On Ice than Old Firm derby.

Roderick struggled to stand up and flung his arm around Percy's shoulder as they headed for the door.

Though he was badly wounded, he struggled to his feet and went on running.

In Russia, meanwhile, he said Accor had struggled to develop its brand in a difficult operating environment.

WDT is a fledging technology company that has shown some promise, but it has struggled to turn a profit over the years.

She saw how the students struggled with math and felt that there was a huge design opportunity to help.

I sat in front of my computer and tried to work, staring into my yard as the sun struggled to burn through the clouds.

i agreed with them , yet simultaneously felt that if i struggled , if i worked diligently , then i could make it to yale.

If it stays here, someone will step on it. I only wanted to help it, but it struggled. It even wanted to bite me!

I thought about this last night as I struggled with getting my newly stringed guitar in tune, something I've yet to master.

DL: SOA is a complex distributed architecture that many organizations struggled with, which drove Anne to make that provocative statement.

For a long while I struggled to reconcile my affection and love for men with the reality of what I found out there in the ether.

For a year, banks struggled to respond to investor demands for larger capital cushions.

I struggled against the ungenerous exultation that in such a supreme moment of existence will rise in the best-mannered sportsman' s breast.

Morgan Stanley struggled for years to exit its JV with China International Capital Corp after falling out with the local management.

He struggled to walk and do some of the simple things we all take for granted but he never gve up.

If you've struggled to get pregnant for instance, Cindy Margolis told Sam Botta that it is usually a male issue rather than a female.

Now the cougar's enemy looked even bigger, and it rose up, ready to move away, but unfortunately Tom got scared and struggled free of Jeb.

Morn had struggled to raise three daughters while holding a full-time job, yet worked hard to maintain a cozy home for her family.

For more than 2, 800 years, the concept of eating plants intheir whole-food form has struggled to be heard and adopted as a way of life.

I struggled desperately wanted to cry, while filling a little bit of effort is not.

He struggled when he first went to Newcastle, but last season he was one of their best players.

Though Mr. Ma struggled a lot, he never lost his direction. Thus, I often say that in life, we must not become self-indulgent.

This had not occurred to Harry. While he struggled to find a counterargument, Ron spoke up, evidently following his own train of thought.

In vain have I struggled. its no good. i cant conquer my feelings. you must allow me to tell you how warmly i admire and love you.

At this point, one might wonder why Japan has struggled with deflation for so long.

FOREIGNERS have always struggled to exercise any sort of control over Afghanistan.

Brown is a strong defender with an improving outside shot while Vujacic has struggled mightily with his jumper .

But many of his friends working in city bars, "struggled around exam time as they were still expected to work the same shifts" .

They struggled on like this for so long that when dusk fell they had still not reached the river.

UBS struggled, as the Swiss bank confirmed another hefty loss and continued to lose clients.

The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens.

If Vieira did see out his contract he may have also struggled to negotiate favourable personal terms, given his age.

As Las Vegas Sands struggled to raise capital, construction was curtailed and the number of workers crossing the border began to fall.

Psychologists at the school discovered that four of the children struggled with language in a similar way.

While others struggled with the fire sale on Wall Street, we were making serious money and I lived the lifestyle to prove it.

Once more, the Dover mail struggled on , with the jackboots of its passengers squashing along by its side .

Far down at the foot of his bed was a familiar shape and Woltz struggled up on his elbows to get a clearer look.

and suddenly she was rising off the floor, legs kicking wildly as she struggled in Ser Jorah's grasp.

It has struggled over the years, despite a revamp of its image away from fancy crockery and towards everyday tableware.

Terra Firma acquired EMI in a leveraged buy-out in 2007 and has struggled with a loan it obtained from Citi to fund the deal.

As long as this was not available on Google, the company struggled to increase its share of user traffic significantly.

He struggled to his feet and went away without saying a word.

He struggled and spit out curses at me as he was handcuffed.

Blind Ah Bing earned his living by playing music in the streets and struggled with the dark and poor life for several decades.

Mr. Kennedy struggled for much of his life with his weight, with alcohol and with persistent tales of womanizing.

They struggled through the crowds trying to find real football shorts.

Soon, the sun finally struggled to climb out of the sea.

Unable to swim, she watched helplessly as the child struggled in the water.

Those were the last words Dianne and Gary Cronin heard their daughter say as she struggled to breathe.

Mr. Tourre struggled at points in explaining documents about the deal, including some of his own emails.

When Jobs had his own illegitimate child, also at the age of 23, he too struggled with his responsibilities.

He struggled out of the net which had trapped him.

Wearing pins adorned with the family's faces, the mourners sang hymns, prayed aloud and struggled to make sense of a terrible loss.

THE FIRST thing Simon heard was a humming noise, a dull buzz that pushed insistently against his ear as he struggled toward wakefulness.

As prime minister, Mr. Fukuda called his first administration the 'back against the wall' cabinet, and he immediately struggled.

The blind man raised his face, in which fear and hatred struggled visibly. Hatred triumphed. "I will not, " he said.

Solyndra, though, struggled to make its solar tech affordable, and when prices for traditional panels plummeted, the company went bankrupt.

The prospectors struggled in the snow, trying to make their way forward.

She struggled with the name, as it sounded something like; a door?

Bergman was a man of extreme talent whom, throughout his life, struggled with the fear of death.

He struggled hard in the water, trying to save himself.

In almost every case, the women she meets believe they are the only ones ever to have struggled with the issue.

I struggled up the side of the gully and broke through the nettles and elder bushes . . .

Emma could not like what bordered on a reflection on Mr. Weston, and had half a mind to take it up; but she struggled, and let it pass.

Andrade has struggled with injuries this season and he knows he must prove his form and fitness if he is to attract interest from anyone.

KFC also struggled domestically because of problems with food not always being served hot and a misperception that its chicken wasn't fresh.

Young struggled to stand up, patted the dirty clothes, like to pretend it, but the body is not a controlled go swaying.

True, China has continued to register turbo-charged growth while many of the debt-laden economies of the west have struggled.

The wounded soldier struggled to his feet and continued walking along with difficulty .

Since his departure, the company has struggled with losses stemming from refinery operations hobbled by state-controlled fuel prices.

one struggled manfully by with a dead spider five times as big as itself in its arms, and lugged it straight up a tree-trunk.

A recent study found people who struggled to nod off had up to a 45 percent greater risk of heart problems than those who slept soundly.

I guessed, however, by his irregular and intercepted breathing, that he struggled to vanquish an excess of violent emotion.

Twitter has struggled a great deal with scaling to meet the needs of its avid user base.

We are giving our all at the moment, although undoubtedly lately we have struggled, we are paying for the Champions League preliminaries.

As China has opened up and modernised, it has struggled to contain the inward flow of Western culture and language.

I struggled to my knees knowing that somehow I had to put my tent up for shelter.

I struggled to my knees knowing that somehow I had to put my tend up for shelter.

The boat was finally submerged and he struggled to stay afloat.

World leaders have struggled to agree an approach to pay, with Mr Sarkozy finding little support for his proposal of a bonus cap.

The four kids shrugged and struggled to appear totally indifferent, but I could tell they were listening intently.

Q: Should young people keep their cultural heritage in mind, how their forbearers struggled, or should they just let all that go?

I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice; and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you! '

The private-equity firm has since struggled with its investment and needs to raise funds to avoid defaulting on a bank loan backed by EMI.

He bent to take his cane from the ground and struggled out of that wheelchair.

It's impressively hard: I felt like I struggled to save China from Japan just as much as Chiang Kai-shek or Mao Zedong did.

Or struggled to remember the name of an old acquaintance?

It might have gone either way in the first set, as both players struggled to hold serve.

Babur struggled on in Central Asia for a while, but was crushed between Uzbeks, Mongols and Timurid princes.

Chelsea themselves have been turned over by Wigan, while Manchester United struggled on Saturday to get a point at home to Sunderland.

These inheritances are related to those that the surface earth humans mapping ascension have struggled with perhaps the most greatly.

Several companies in its portfolio have struggled under their debts over the past two years, including Ferretti, a luxury-yacht maker.

I struggled about whether or not to put that in the book.

Ever since the Civil War, the South has struggled to find ways to deal with its troubled past.

Massa struggled for form last season as he failed to get to grips with the characteristics of Bridgestone's narrower front tyres.

He struggled in the dark, without advice, without encouragement.

As a judge, I felt the best deserved full marks for effort but my fellow South African judges and I struggled to find gold medal winners.

Dragging himself out of the dang the struggled up the hilly slope and rang the doorbell.

The trouble is, economists have struggled to establish a strong link between freer capital flows and speedier economic development.

She was struggling, as she always had struggled, not to show what she could do but to hide what she couldn`t do.

I've struggled with it at times, but I've realized that being five-five can't stop me from joining the Senate.

While a few smaller suppliers struggled to meet demand in the first half of the year, most companies were quick to reinstate capacity.

Taylor struggled with health issues most of her life and was hospitalized earlier this year with congestive heart problems.

Judges have struggled with the political nature of the case.

Wang had won four of his last five decisions but, over that span, struggled at times with aggressiveness and trust in his sinker.

Dragging himself out of the dam, he struggled up the hilly slope and rang the doorbell.

Scarlet dropped her head on her arms and struggled not to cry .

I struggled to get any sleep on Saturday night, and I normally have no problems sleeping.

The dying horse struggled to its feet and gave a look to the master.

All of which meant that this weekend's gathering struggled to find anything new to say.

She didn't remain in contact with her children's father and admits for a period she struggled to cope as a single mum.

His lips, dry and parched, quivered as he struggled to say one word. "Mom. "

"It may not be, Hugh; here is no landing. " cried Dick; but he still struggled valiantly with the obstinate thicket and the startled animal.

For nearly a decade Donne struggled to support his wife and their many children.

I panicked, and my first thought was that they will kill me, so I STRUGGLED and SCREAMED.

The two central midfielders struggled for an available man to pass to, and Brazil's dominance of possession wasn't turned into chances.

Yet they have struggled to develop one of the most promising markets, just over the Himalaya mountains in neighbouring China .

Mrs Lagarde, a liberal-leaning lawyer, would have gone down well abroad, but she would have struggled to control rowdy parliamentarians.

As consumers have been unable to make good on loans, banks have struggled with the consequences.

He struggled to persuade people who lived alongside crocodilians to see them not as pests, but as friends.

The Serbian was rated as one of the best young talents in Europe, however he has struggled badly to settle in Sicily.

One recent special followed the progress of an extremely obese teenage boy who struggled through bariatric surgery and its aftermath.

John struggled to speak the authoritative, the living word that would conquer the great division between his father and himself.

For the next eight years he struggled with suboptimal treatment that left him debilitated from musculoskeletal pain.

Television news helicopters arrived at the scene ahead of the police, who said they struggled to find boats to take them from the mainland.

That led to a broad rethinking of strategy, as the auto maker struggled with highly publicized recalls.

In the chocking atmosphere, I struggled, I shouted, I cried and I wondered why the land in my world would always be that poor.

Shay struggled over to the team's bench and, with a broad smile, put on a team shirt.

As chips have shrunk over the years, engineers have struggled with ways of dissipating the heat they create.

But Sony Ericsson struggled in the early days with a limited portfolio and manufacturing difficulties.

He also struggled to leave his rigid scientific training behind.

who had to work and who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us the things that other kids had.

So we struggled to have our education, but the piece of certificate should never be a full stop.

He struggled to the surface as the water dragged him down.

For many decades after that, the city struggled to rebuild and saw much of its port operations and business move inland , mainly to Houston.

Think of the abolitionists who struggled and died to see the end of slavery.

He was always fearful and throughout his career he struggled to find a balance between the perils and pleasures of his profession.

Volkswagen is not the only company to have struggled in this way.

Their friendship served each of them well over the two brutal weeks they struggled up the rock formation.

The tiger struggled to get out of the cage.

The company had to delay product launches and has struggled to offer models that prove instant hits.

That it struggled to hold a parliamentary seat against an absent opponent bodes ill for a general poll.

I struggled in the snow, trying to make my way forward.

I've struggled for food and for money and I've weeded and hoed and picked cotton until I can't stand it another minute.

Having struggled so hard it was particularly hard to see her own daughter, now 24, denied education under the Taliban.

While the company struggled to fulfil its early promise , the acquisition of a vaccines business in 2000 would make his fortune .

The lack of a clear legal definition helps to explain why the police have struggled to address the problem.

Most of the people I knew growing up in rural Illinois struggled just like my family did.

Sometimes: we struggled through an idealess coffee until the last sip and discover sugar lying at the lower side.

Nokia has struggled to produce a lucrative rival to the iPhone.

The lion made a sudden angry noise and struggled to its feet. After a moment, it fell over and lay still.

It no longer struggled against her, but it was losing its frizzy fur in patches, and its eyes were dull and lifeless.

For myself: in the past one of the things that I struggled with was being consistent with my actions.

His recent successors famously struggled to automate the simple attachment of a handle to a teacup.

The original model has struggled with piracy issues, making for strong hardware sales even as some developers shy away from the system.