Human beings have struggled for freedom - for freedom from tyranny - for at least 2,500 years.
All we know is that at some point the Authority took charge, and since then, angels have rebelled, and human beings have struggled against him, too.
We are, after all, not characters in a fairytale acting out a predetermined role, but human beings struggling to grow, discover ourselves and express our humanity.
The two powerful beings - human and draconian - struggled against the side of the pot.
For a seer, the truth is that all living beings are struggling to die.
In the distance, walking through knee-high grass, Buccari, Hudson, and two hulking alien beings struggled under the weight of a third alien.
Yet the shark was adapted to handle the crisis of hunger in ways human beings did not know in 1916, and struggled decades later to understand.
Human beings struggled and wriggled on those thorns--thousands and tens of thousands.
A few human beings have struggled against this most natural of tendencies, and have expressed pity for unhappy strangers.
As the two Terrestrials entered the room, the beings struggled to their feet and hurried laboriously away.