Instead he looks set to be embroiled, for the third time this year, in another bitter struggle.

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Long before this tragedy, daily life itself was often a bitter struggle.

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Qualifying to become a teacher was a long and bitter struggle, he says, but now he feels he has been cheated by the system.

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In 1973 he was involved in a bitter struggle for control of the group with Robert Edgeworth, resulting in both declaring victory and delivering acceptance speeches.

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Here's the hard math behind the bitter struggle.

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Gillett and Hicks are in the middle of a bitter power struggle.

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The decision followed a lengthy and bitter behind-the-scenes struggle among the Justices that produced both secret unpublished opinions and a rare reargument of a case.

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But to tackle two pressing post-war problems, the dire state of the national economy and the bitter ethnic division underpinning the Tigers' struggle, Mr Rajapaksa must broaden his appeal.

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You can imagine what a bitter blow it is to me that all my long struggle to win peace has failed.

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