Although the car occasionally struggled in qualifying, it appeared to have the edge on the McLarens in race trim.

Not only had the Blazers struggled on the floor, missing the playoffs four straight years, their reputation was stung by player arrests and misconduct, earning the team the nickname " Jail Blazers.

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Räikkönen, 27, struggled to climb through the field in Monaco after a qualifying crash, and two weeks earlier was also outperformed by race winner Felipe Massa in Barcelona before a car failure

In certain areas I was just not quick enough and at some corner exits, I struggled a bit with rear end grip.

But Huntelaar, 25, has struggled to make an impact after scoring 113 goals in 136 games in Holland.

Evangelicals have recognised this where fundamentalists struggled with it

I kind of struggled with that.

But he struggled to cope with fame and drugs

Schumacher, 41, who left the sport for three years after winning his record number of titles and 91 races, has struggled with Mercedes this season, failing to get on to the podium in eight rounds and twice in the last three races he has finished outside the top 10

The Oxford-based team struggled throughout the just-concluded season when Nico Rosberg and Kazuki Nakajima were the drivers and the former world champion outfit finished a lowly seventh in the constructors championship

Here brave men struggled and died for the right as God gave them to see the right.

Tvrtko s successor, King Ostoja, struggled for possession of the crown against Tvrtko s illegitimate son, Tvrtko II, who was supported first by the Turks and then by the Hungarians after Ostoja s death.

Soriano ' s plans were thrown into disarray last year when he struggled to sell the site of the old Mestalla stadium and work on a new arena had to be halted

Landa was the role that Tarantino struggled to fill, so much so that he might have had to pass on making the movie had he not filled it.

We struggled quite a lot in some of the conditions with the car, it was okay when we were in clean air, our pace was decent, but it s very on and off in these conditions.

" Michael has struggled with the front tyre size because, as you know, we used to develop our tyres with him until 2006, " he explained.

Lewis Hamilton: We struggled with the balance of the car throughout both sessions today.

Germany has provided slim recent pickings for Fiat which was a major beneficial of the state government ' s " eco " incentive schemes but has struggled since they were wound up earlier this year

Since then, Torres has struggled with the injury lasting just 63 minutes in Liverpool s 3 - 1 defeat to Fulham

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The forward suffered a shocking double leg break at Birmingham in February 2008 and has struggled to regain his form

With the underside of his car almost certainly damaged from his various trips over the kerbs, Alonso struggled for pace, particularly in the closing stages when his super-soft Bridgestones seemed to be providing little grip.

Solberg struggled this weekend to match the pace of his rivals on the smooth asphalt stages that made up much of this weekend s Rallye de France.

In his memoir, Obama described how he struggled to reconcile social perceptions of his multiracial heritage.

They outnumbered the English men-at-arms by several times, but weighed down by armour and sinking deep into the mud with every step, they struggled to close the distance and reach their enemies.

And as always, the alien language, unmastered and struggled over, created a strange concatenation of distance and immediacy. " On a second reading in later life, he says, " it is the book itself that creates distance.

Mozgov struggled to find any rhythm early on in the quarters against Serbia.

But Kobe struggled in the 1 st months of the season, especially when he was 0/8, twice

Pedro de la Rosa took a surprise win in the streets of Cartagena after finishing second in the first race and third in the second, beating McLaren-Mercedes teammate Juan Pablo Montoya, who won the first race and struggled in the second one after crashing and damaging his Easykart.