Finally, the physical excess of Mr. Leroy's canvases evokes with considerable power, and not a little wit, the centuries-old struggle between what painters see and what their talent and sensibilities allow them to wrestle onto canvas.

But in fact we are living through one of the more fascinating iterations of a centuries-old struggle.

It would have been an extraordinary step that, while not unheard of in tuberculosis cases, would evoke a centuries-old struggle to balance public health and individual liberty.

The obvious problem, of course, is the centuries-old struggle of the three faiths for physical control of Jerusalem, but the deeper cause lies in the theology of each of them.

"It is hard not to think that we have been drawn into this centuries-old struggle between a couple in love and her husband."

These Are Sovereign Lands' The dispute, which has riveted the attention of tribes around the country, has raised an issue that goes far beyond gambling and cuts to the core of a centuries-old struggle: self-rule of Indian lands.

He calls Mr. Doherty "one man among thousands of Irish men and women caught up in this centuries-old struggle against oppression in Northern Ireland."

The conference here provided a reminder that publications and television constitute one of the many battlefronts in the centuries-old British-Irish struggle.

Though an inexorable development of the centuries-old political struggle, we shall see how the present violence 'was born of the denial of civil rights to the Roman Catholic minority.

It was, as Mr. Sheehan's report makes luminously clear, simply another task in their centuries-old struggle for independence.