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I've been wrestling with the question of whether I go back to work or not.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

Andy lies in the dark, studying the chunk of concrete in his hands. Considering the possibilities. Wrestling with hope.

At this North Carolina fastfood restaurant, the manager takes on a robber, grabbing his gun, wrestling with him in the kitchen.

What secret? ' said the Witch, wrestling with him like a wild cat, and biting her foam-flecked lips.

This means that wrestling with a challenge is usually fruitless and frustrating.

I've been wrestling with the question of whether I go on with the work.

The school regulations are pretty strict about me wrestling with the boys. But if you want to give it a shot, be my guest.

A good test is to ask whether the question you're wrestling with will matter in 20 years.

Officials are wrestling with possible permutations, essentially turning the institution's governance into a giant game of sudoku.

The resulting photos show the supermodel plausibly wrestling with an alligator and keeping pace with a racing cheetah.

Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon .

It has also been surprisingly helpful for physicists wrestling with theories of how the universe works at its most fundamental level.

For wrestling with really complex issues, bring together individuals with a wide range of backgrounds and cognitive abilities.

Unlike other rich economies wrestling with deflationary forces and minimal growth, though, Japan has largely come to terms with its decline.

He was at the time wrestling with the soul of a young ox from Manchester.

Many institutional investors are no longer wrestling with whether or not they should go east, but how.

2Arguing with a lawyer is like mud wrestling with a pig: after a while you realize that the pig actually enjoys it.

Wrestling with a tough decision, stuck in a creative rut or having a hard time solving a complex problem?

It's a question scientists have been wrestling with for decades, but only recently have they begun to find answers.

Today's software development teams are wrestling with the increase in development costs associated with maintaining and modifying software.

The prospect of wrestling with Meereen once more left her feeling weary.

What foreign firms are wrestling with now, is how they'll adapt to such a world.

They recorded the neural activity of volunteers wrestling with word puzzles and scanned their brains as they sought solutions.

But a place, I think, where the effort is really worthwhile is where people are wrestling with quite serious problems.

I've been wrestling with these figures for ages but get a different answer each time I add them up.

Even the euro, which is still wrestling with the possible default of Greece and Ireland, has gained 10% against the dollar this year.

Hollywood and science fiction novelists have been wrestling with this "friend or foe" question for decades.

It is a thought-provoking saga for Lloyd Blankfein and all the other financiers and politicians currently wrestling with the bonus dilemma.

Scientists have been wrestling with this quandary for over a century.

GIVEN that Spain is wrestling with a deep recession, reorganising the financing of state television hardly seems a priority.

Manufacturers are also wrestling with a dilemma about where to cut production.

And retailers, unlike producers wrestling with soaring input costs, have more leeway to raise prices before consumers change eating habits.

Prayer is not wrestling with God's reluctance to bless us; it is laying hold on his willingness to do so.

For centuries, philosophers have been wrestling with this question.

She was wrestling with assignments in mathematics.

But once in power, they invariably end up wrestling with issues they never anticipated and sometimes get blown off course completely.

The movie, which is a delightful comedy, alive with invention, is about Tom wrestling with that reality.

That may prove optimistic in the current economic climate, with India and China wrestling with rapidly slowing economies.

Federal regulators are still wrestling with who's responsible for approving the new generation of mobile health devices.

Putin is seeking to reclaim his old Kremlin job in the March presidential election, but is wrestling with growing unpopularity.

Such details are what Fed officials are currently wrestling with as their prepare for the next meeting on Nov.

Stop wrestling with the irretrievable past, and start your quality life with carefully paired food and wine.

Seeing a policeman wrestling with a criminal, Dad went for help.

Teenagers today are wrestling with many pressures including being popular and keeping up grades.

As a pastor, I meet a lot of kids wrestling with a similar experience.

It also helps AIG that so many other financial companies are wrestling with the valuations of their own subprime exposures.

Regulators and central bankers around the world are wrestling with how to reform their financial systems.

The wrestling with mystery, not the ascension to resolution, defines who we are.

Next time you dream about wrestling with the devil, it may only be yourself you are wrestling with!

It's a question that people have been wrestling with for as long as humans have been interacting with each other.

Why waste time wrestling with that riddle?

Even in the City of Brotherly Love, tensions run high when wrestling with tough budget choices.

Cooper, wrestling with these problems, confessed to an angry defeat.

One of the challenges I think that we're going to be wrestling with is how to stay pretty normal.

Jack: I can't tell you what to do. I've been wrestling with this one my whole life.

Government officials are wrestling with whether banks will need to inform shareholders that they have been rejected by the government.

One night while wrestling with his father on the sofa, Chuck found some stray popcorn kernels under the cushions.

The industry has been wrestling with the complexity of managing its business systems for years.

Unless you're a sociopath, you're probably going to end up wrestling with feelings of guilt, which will make your home sex life worse.

The House chamber was filled with veteran legislators who have spent decades wrestling with those issues.

But now they are wrestling with a third: the pornography talk.

Yes, NASCAR does at times seem like little more than pro wrestling with fenders.

"I'm usually wrestling with these feelings for the entire day, " Yu said.

The G8 has lost its monopoly as a forum for wrestling with global economic problems.

First wrestling with Kwong, then playing tickling with Kent.

One question we've been wrestling with lately is: "Where do we go from here? "

Writers sit at their desks for hours, wrestling with ideas.

The pilot was wrestling with the controls.

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

Or are you trundling along the same old tracks, mulling over the same old facts, wrestling with the same old causes of discomfort?

The tall boy is wrestling with his father.

I spent two hourse wrestling with my maths homework.

The FDA has been wrestling with the UVA rule and rating issue and the need to update sunscreen regulations since 1999.

I've been wrestling with this third paragraph all morning and it still has the wrong tone.

And wrestling with them is not an option.

Can you read of Jacob at the brook Jabbok and say that you ever spent an hour, much less a night, in wrestling with the angle?

He is wrestling with his adversary.

While you will make wise choices, you're still wrestling with the doubt that's common to those born under your sign.

But its 52, 500 people are still wrestling with the legacy.

The power of the Pentagon: Wrestling with demons

Edith would watch her wrestling with words, her thin little body juddering with the effort to unlock them(Anita Brookner)

On the Adjusting Role of Emotion in Teaching the Course Wrestling with Bare Hands

Wrestling With GOD--Jews and Their Music

Wrestling with the red ink