If it had been a bitter, brutal struggle before, it now became a battle to the death.

Easy enough to give up a luxury, but here it might make the difference between civilized life and a brutal struggle for existence.

It was kill or be killed, in a brutal struggle to the death.

Swain had in fact killed her in a brutal underwater struggle.

The battle was one of the many brutal struggles in the Pacific theater that never made any headlines.

Two barbarous factions were aiming toward a brutal struggle for possession.

After Manassas, both sides knew it would be a brutal struggle.

Sometimes, the platform becomes another staging ground to continue a brutal primary struggle, a specialty of the Democrats for many years.

He expressed alarm that the war could turn in a brutal struggle between Russia and Islam.

Dance Theater Company, it depicted a brutal struggle between two competitive office workers.