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However, as anyone who has wrestled with a persistent case of athlete's foot knows, it's not easy to root out a fungus once it's taken hold.

I wrestled with my conscience for a long time, then decided to tell him the truth.

Their experiments solved one of the great mysteries of biology, one scientists had wrestled with since the dawn of genetics.

This left Jacob all alone in the camp, and a man came and wrestled with him until the dawn began to break.

"These issues now have to be included and wrestled with" in drafting national security strategy, she said.

As he wrestled with the decision over whether to leave NASA, the Obama administration made the decision to scrap Constellation and Ares I.

He lunged at the burglar and wrestled with him for the weapon.

The British Royal Navy wrestled with the same problem and found a solution.

For decades, officials have wrestled with the question of what to do about the seedy side of the city, Mr.

As he sloshed through the wet snow he wrestled with a rising feeling of impotence , self- pity and rebellion .

This summer Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has wrestled with one of his biggest challenges since taking office five years ago.

and the socket of Jacob's hip was dislocated as he wrestled with Him.

The question I wrestled with then was one I now often get asked by other men: How do I look?

Early Christian groups wrestled with the kind of question that people sometimes still do which is what happens to you when you're dead?

In 2009 state governments wrestled with budget gaps totalling $110 billion; California's alone was responsible for over a third of that sum.

He wrestled with his attacker until he kicked his feet under him and he fell to the ground.

From the moment I opened my eyes to my last thought each night, I wrestled with who I was, how I lived and what my purpose was.

Wojtek smoked cigarettes, drank beer from the bottle, wrestled with the men, and retired to Edinburgh Zoo after the war.

The concept of making charges neutral to investment strategy has been something people have wrestled with for some time, says Mr Maslinski.

The day had been long and arduous, and he slept soundly and comfortably, though he growled and barked and wrestled with bad dreams.

For me, death is no longer abstract. I have wrestled with death, in the guise of the cancer that fed on my body.

During the time that I transitioned from Christianity to atheism I wrestled with many questions.

As in Dunhuang, the program participants wrestled with issues of translations and cultural difference.

They've wrestled with embarrassing revelations about some early leaders that drew charges of racism and xenophobia. Ms. Martin and Ms.

I wrestled with a question: What is the human flaw that allows genocide to erupt again and again?

The attack comes a day after a 13-year-old girl wrestled with a great white shark.

I wrestled with the crossword clue for ages before light finally dawned, ie I understood the solution.

She wrestled with her attacker.

Yet business schools have always wrestled with how best to help students acquire this skill .

Packard, who died two years ago at 83, wrestled with managing the day-to-day operation.

For this fight I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with the whale.

He wrestled with this puzzle for an hour.

Two girls were reading "Julius Caesar" as two others wrestled with maths.

For the longest time, Ari Moore, 28, and her partner, wrestled with the idea of adopting cats.

With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed.

It is not the first time Britain has wrestled with such dilemmas.

Other networks have wrestled with the same issues.

The guards wrestled with the intruders.

For more than 150 years, photographers have wrestled with the problem of exposure.

The fortunate bird disappeared while the fellow wrestled with this dilemma.

And Rachel said, In wrestling with God, I have wrestled with my sister and have prevailed; so she called his name Naphtali.

He wrestled with his classmate.

John wrestled with the robbers.

Others joshed loudly and wrestled with each other.

As my D 3 section pursued these leads, I wrestled with the problem of how to handle Blunt, now that he was my responsibility.

They may have wrestled with body image even before puberty started (for example, battles with weight or dissatisfaction with height).

Q2: Who wrestled with Jacob?

Other developing countries have wrestled with income-tax collection, with varying degrees of success.

Have you ever wrestled with a career-vs. -flexibility tradeoff?