Despite the devastating century-long struggle with the Orders, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania expanded rapidly, overtaking former Slavic principalities of Kievan Rus'.

His ascendance to the Presidency would be a symbolic culmination of the civil- and voting-rights acts of the nineteen-sixties and the century-long struggles for equality that preceded them.

The century-long struggle between Berlin and Vienna for dominance of Germany was now over.

The fall of the century-long ideological struggle between the West and the East coincidentally ended the 'new scramble for Africa.'

A final part of that century-long struggle was the Nine Years' War (1594-1603), after which the defeated earls' lands were confiscated and given to settlers, in the Plantation of Ulster.

He devotes half his pages to the century-long struggle against mob violence that began with the agitation of Ida B. Wells.

In the course of the century-long struggle against Carthage, the Romans conquered Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica.

Using the economics of black popular music, Mr. George explores black Americans' century-long struggle for social equality and acceptance and reaches some dispiriting conclusions.

Still, the musical is giving them a visceral feel for a century-long struggle.

In their place are portraits of Kurdish martyrs, Kurdish radio and television stations and ballads extolling the century-long struggle for a Kurdish homeland.