We can be certain, although this is hardly encouraging, that our friends and colleagues back on Earth are struggling with this devil as well.

For the moment, Ms. Hunter and her colleagues are struggling to get the delicate mechanism of "An Ideal Husband" ticking properly.

Lucas and his colleagues struggled for two years to find oil at a location known as Spindletop Hill before making a strike in 1901.

His colleagues struggled to outdo him in lifelikeness, in art that was a pure conjuring trick on the sense of sight.

"I've made so many cupcakes recently that my colleagues are struggling to eat them all," says Lorraine Reese.

One former colleague struggled to explain why Mr. Alexander might have risked his name and future for such a relatively paltry amount.

It is a question that Mr. Gaidar and his colleagues in Russia's fractious and increasingly embittered movement have struggled with for four long years.

Six months and four interest-rate cuts later, Ben Bernanke and his colleagues at the Fed are struggling to contain the bust.

Mr. Lanmon and his colleagues struggled with the prospect of correcting the historical inaccuracies in the rooms before going ahead with the project.

He was accustomed to taking the stairs to his office, sometimes two at a time, while his younger colleagues struggled to keep up with him.