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Examples of struggled

struggled

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

Politicians, bureaucrats, families, ex-servicemen, clerics, artists, builders, and contributors struggled to control the commemorative space.
Moreover, bureaucrats have struggled to preserve their powers in the context of regulatory reform by assuming new administrative functions involving alternative dispute resolution.
During the 1920s, as trade unions struggled to form, jobbers often played a significant role in them.
Despite moving towards ever greater legitimacy, the university struggled to establish itself.
He struggled openly with the younger man to destroy his authority and scatter his followers.
They created a range of products in this new and alien environment but ultimately struggled with the industrialization within the ceramics industry.
I found the improvisations richer when words struggled to be heard.
The performer struggled to communicate inner mental states to both stage partners and audience.
Although she noted her father's concerns, this woman suggested that she had discounted his perspective, and had continually struggled to lower her weight.
He himself struggled to co-ordinate efforts, channelling correspondence between distant writers and angling for patents and other perquisites to finance the endeavour.
Many of the workgroups struggled with the challenge of keeping the coding ' general purpose ' and avoiding theory-specific feature tags.
Since its invention, systematic review has struggled with the problem of 'comparing like with like'.
I had told her this tale one night when she struggled with sleep.
As firms struggled to be competitive, they also often updated their production processes to produce better products.
For generations, scholars studying social theory, anthropology, law, and linguistics have struggled to map the structuring of social and power relations through language.
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