The Civil War began in eighteen sixty-one as a struggle over the right of states to leave the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.08

It is a way for people to establish their identities in often unfriendly areas as they struggle to hold their communities together.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

But it was a hard struggle. Few of the books she needed were written in the Braille language that the blind could read by touching pages.

VOA: special.2011.08.07

He already was fighting a bitter struggle against rebels in the South.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Andrew Johnson soon found himself in a bitter struggle with Congress.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

He began a struggle in the Senate to block it.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Mr.Zardari said the fight against extremists in particular is a struggle that will not be solved overnight.

VOA: standard.2009.05.13

It has experienced internal divisions and rising tensions in the past year, as major political parties struggle to agree on a basic political structure.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

(Speech) She said there is joy in the possibilities that opened up at this very bridge, noting it was the result of a long struggle against oppression.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

"This is why there is a real scramble for leadership and there is a real power struggle, which is reflected in the deadlock in the election in parliament."

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

"We struggle for independence of the judiciary in Pakistan and real democracy in Pakistan, and economic development and a modern state that can give human rights and civil rights and economic stability to Pakistan,".

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

In September,a power struggle erupted in violence in the lower Juba region between al-Shabab and Hizbul Islam, a clan-based Islamist-nationalist group which had been al-Shabab's main ally in its year-long battle to overthrow the U.N.-backed government in Mogadishu.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

You have all those things here." The three million visitors who fill the streets of Williamsburg every year are immersed not only in early American life but in the struggle of a small, new country to find its own identity.

VOA: standard.2010.07.03

The president described the health care debate as being in its final stages after a century of struggle, saying it's about the character of the United States rather than merely the cost of health care for Americans.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

On another matter, Jones said the United States is nearly certain that an American missile strike in Pakistan last week killed the top-ranked Taliban leader in the country, and that a leadership struggle has since emerged within the militant group.

VOA: standard.2009.08.09