wrestle with something

Examples of wrestled

wrestled

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

Perhaps this is indicative of a new direction in eighteenth-century scholarship, which has so long wrestled primarily with attempts accurately to establish the repertory.
Newly elected men wrestled with consciences or argued with colleagues and immediately declined or subsequently resigned the proferred position.
Scholars have posited numerous definitions of spirituality and wrestled with the notion of spiritual pain and suffering.
Quite apart from external attempts to influence them, corporate laboratories have always wrestled with problems of internal financial accountability.
Other authors wrestled with ' the throes of an often painful love relationship with the divine ' (p. 119).
A number of researchers have wrestled with how to account for gradient data, given that before the 1990s, most formal theories addressed only categorical patterns.
Well, this is the question humans have wrestled with for centuries.
They struggled with this during the development of their early plans, and then subsequently as they wrestled with accountability requirements as part of performance management.
In spite of dissenting opinions, this multidisciplinary committee sought consensus rather than confrontation as it wrestled with religious and democratic imperatives.
America where several other polities have wrestled with questions of racial hierarchies, labor, and politics in a post-emancipation context.
It mattered that we wrestled with 'discernment' and not 'choices'.
The review wrestled with all the methodological challenges outlined earlier in this paper, including the need to incorporate a range of study designs, and multiple outcomes.
Heterotypic presentation of the internalizing construct over time interferes with growth modeling assumptions, but may need to be elucidated and wrestled with as studies of internalizing developmental pathways proliferate.
We wrestled for a long time over the question of where the money should actually come from.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Again it is in our national genius to treat time as a friend and not as an enemy to be wrestled with.
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