For many Australians the desert which covers much of their country means a vast emptiness solitude and the struggle to survive in hostile surroundings.

In subsequent days Charlie and Phil struggle but survive.

WHILE free schools aim to shake up the status quo, most struggle to survive.

Such efforts reflect the struggle to survive in a fiercely competitive health-care market.

As a re- sult, during the subsequent struggle to survive and combat the menace.

The three groups are then involved in a long firefight, and everyone involved struggles to survive.

Many smaller hospitals face a struggle simply to survive.

Life is a continuous struggle and only the fittest could survive.

They face a struggle to survive as well as having to deal with their loss.

Publishers Weekly noted how the "bears' struggle to survive, along with Hunter's environmental theme".