52 Metaphors for struggle

This struggle for life in the shape of work for bare subsistence wages, is the true logical and necessary outcome of free competition among an over supply of low-skilled labourers.

We had to ford a stream three or four feet deep, the Vaitapiha, and the struggle through it was a rare pleasure, the child on the back of the animal, and I with the reins and

This struggle for space, by means of which the birth and growth of organisms is achieved, is the very texture of life, the plot of every drama.

He had now a life of struggling, but those struggles were the lot of his early friends also; Mackintosh talked of going to India as a lecturer; Smith recommended Jeffrey to do the same.

Between the Italian favourite and the Duc d'Epernon especially, a feeling of hatred had grown up, which, although as yet veiled by the policy for which each was so distinguished, only awaited a fitting opportunity to reveal itself on both sides; and the struggle for power was not the less resolute because it was carried on amid smiles and courtesies.

Autocracy vs. Unionism This unprecedented struggle was really a test of strength between industrial autocracy and militant unionism.

Struggle is our brother, by Gregor Felsen.

The struggle was long and fierce, a perpetual interchange of musketry and artillery, our losses, especially in officers, being very severe.

It is now acknowledged that the struggle at Rome between the plebeians and patricians was a sequel and a prolongation of the war of conquest, was an effort on the part of the aristocracy of the cities conquered by Rome to share the rights of the conquering aristocracy.

"Details of this fight, which, as I write, reaches its fourth day of duration, are very scanty, but partly from personal observation and partly from information which has reached me I know that the struggle so far has been a terrible one, equal to, if not greater than, the struggle on the banks of the Marne.

I at length gave up exercise to gain time for study, and my despairing struggles were misery.

Secondly, in the conviction that this relentless struggle is the only means that remains to us of so chaining up the wild beast of war, as the Germans have let it loose upon the world, that our children and grandchildren at least shall live in peace, and have time given them to work out a more reasonable scheme of things.

Meanwhile Italy's struggle against Austria was exciting much deeper interest than franchise questions.

You couldn't help what happened to you; neither can we help it if the struggle is too fiercewe're victims, too.

To this the native very naturally objected in turn, and a struggle was the result, in which the calf was worsted and reduced to order.

A blind and breathless struggle ensued between the desperate ferocity of the slave and the equally desperate terror of the mistress; while faster and wilder went the huge, dim shadows in their goblin-dance, as the yellow flame flared and flickered in the agitated air.

It was not the fault of the Government that they had got into this position; people took the situation too tragically, especially in the press; they spoke as though the end of all things was come; "but," he added, "a constitutional struggle is not a disgrace, it is rather an honour; after all we are all children of the same country."

It was this that rendered the Revolution inevitable; the struggle was a revolt against the whole mental attitude of Britain in regard to America, rather than against any one special act or set of acts.

The British had had no chance to dig themselves in and consolidate their positions in the ground won, and on December 1 and 2 the struggle was in the open, a fierce hand-to-hand conflict unlike anything previously seen in the war.

Class struggles at home, in their acutest form, are like the competition of nationalism abroad: explosions of cupidity, masked by the pretext of the country's greatness.

This spiritual struggle, which suggests that of Carlyle, is undoubtedly the cause of that gloom and depression which hang, like an English fog, over much of her work; though her biographer, Cross, tells us that she was not by any means a sad or gloomy woman.

Sometimes it seems that all our struggle with moody verbs and insubordinate conjunctions was a wicked wastepoor little sleepy puzzleheads!

The struggle for existence is, in the life of Nature, the basis of all healthy development.

His eyes shifted, the struggle of his mind was pitifully visiblepack-law, pack-power, the wolf-heart and the wolf-belly, and against them that queer hunger for the love and the touch of man.

Now, what were all Mrs. Hamilton's self-conquering struggles, all the pain she had suffered, compared with the exquisite happiness of feeling that her care had preserved her child, and she knew not as yet from what depth of wretchedness?

52 Metaphors for  struggle