Word Finder - hardships

definition

Difficulty or trouble; hard times.

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He has survived periods of financial hardship before.

They suffered dreadful hardships.

Louis was a man of strong frame, who loved the chase, and did not shrink from the hardships of war.

Midway has had its hardships along with its successes.

The well-known stories of his laughter when he was introduced to Belisarius, and his chant, "Vanitas vanitatum," when he walked before the triumphal car of his conqueror through the streets of Constantinople, probably point to an intellect disordered by his reverses and hardships.

Grouped around their belfry-towers and organized within their gilds, they made merry in their free jocular language over their own hardships, and still more over the vices of their lords.

Alice and her family suffered hardships during the civil war following the Bolshevik putsch.

Cruel means of repression assisted natural hardships and the carelessness of the administration in depopulating and laying waste the countryside; while Louis XIV.s martial and ostentatious policy was even more disastrous than pestilence and famine, when Louvois advice prevailed in council over that of Colbert, now embittered and desperate.

As long as hope lives, a marriage can survive the hardships of life.

Owing to the hardships to which they have been exposed through the disturbed state of the country, many are emigrating to Jerusalem.

This film follows five young wrestlers as they endure the hardships necessary to succeed in the unusual world of female sumo wrestling.

For the hardships and sufferings of the English soldiers in the terrible Crimean winter before Sevastopol, owing to failure in the commissariat, both as regards food and clothing, Lord Raglan and his staff were at the time severely censured by the press and the government; but, while Lord Raglan was possibly to blame in representing matters in a too sanguine light, it afterwards appeared that the chief neglect rested with the home authorities.

The hardships of his early years drove him to introspection and to solitary communion with nature, and thus favoured a more than proportionate development of the sentimental and poetic side of his mind.

But though intimately acquainted with every nook and cranny of the English law, he never carried his studies into foreign fields, from which to enrich our legal literature; and it must be added that against the excellence of his judgments, in too many cases, must be set off the hardships, worse than injustice, that arose from his protracted delays in pronouncing them.

He endured great hardships, but secured a livelihood by teaching and writing; he was a correspondent of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung.

Renewing love and commitment after marital difficulty, such as infidelity, illness, or other hardships.

In this case, the addict will have many costs beyond financial hardships, including ruined relationships, health problems and anxiety.

When I look back at the financial hardships, strained relationships, and uphill battles, I think to myself, "How did I get here?"

This allows families, who may be experiencing economic hardships, to experience a high seas adventure without breaking the bank.

They argue that the hardships, risks, and real dangers faced by members of the military justify the retirement program.

A series of video clips and narratives are shown about the trials of the Civil War and the hardships facing the United States of America.

Unemployment by either or both parents causes financial hardships and social and emotional strain, which can disrupt family life.

The fish endured many hardships and overcame innumerous obstacles, but its tenacity helped it to be victorious.

Each phase of gameplay presented tough decisions and pitted the player against the same life or death hardships endured by the real pioneers.

These lesser lives introduce hardships and other opportunities for karmic resolutions that will elevate your soul toward that higher state of being.

Applying for Section 8 housing assistance is something that individuals with low incomes across the United States should do if they are having financial hardships.

Many tattoo devotees use it as a sign of rebirth, or overcoming extreme hardships in their life.

People who have struggled to overcome great hardships and emerged from their battles victorious choose Leo zodiac tattoos to signify or document their success.

The organization uses some terms that many people on the spectrum find offensive, and while many families can relate to the hardships associated with the conditions, the portrayal seems skewed to the negative.

Although some states have legislation protecting residents from excessive insurance premium increases, these raised costs result in financial hardships for many people.

To protect rental property owners from hardships due to loss of income, some companies offer landlord insurance policies.

Her childhood in Inglewood, California exposed her to the hardships of inner city life.

Not only does the often cash sale of these purses make it hard for investigators to follow where the trail leads, but can lead to other economical hardships and questionable ethical practices.

During that time, the castaways will endure many hardships, compete in competitions to win rewards and immunity and ultimately vote off fellow cast mates one-by-one until just one person emerges as the sole survivor.

Many of them have suffered hardships such as illnesses, injuries, recent deaths of a parent or child, job losses, and natural disasters.

The view (traceable no doubt to the Aristotelian definition) that equity mitigates the hardships of the law where the law errs through being framed in universals, is to be found in some of the earlier writings.

The country passed through was mostly of a forbidding character, except where the Kimberley district was entered, and the expedition suffered even more than the usual hardships.

Cromwell's health had long been impaired by the hardships of campaigning.

In February 1770 he set out again from Fort Prince of Wales; but, after great hardships, he was again forced to return to the fort.

He had blue or grey eyes, and fair hair and beard, which turned white through the hardships he endured in Japan.

He, therefore, despite Napoleon's repeated demands, refused to subject his empire to the hardships imposed by the Continental System; at the close of the year 1810 he virtually allowed the entry of colonial goods (all of which were really British borne) and little by little broke away from Napoleon's system.

After enduring great hardships he goes through the course and leaves a son Connlaech behind in Scotland by another amazon, Aife.

After enduring the greatest hardships it was resolved to abandon the ship, Upernivik being reached on the 5th of August 1855, whence a relief expedition brought the explorers home.

Information having been communicated to Rome, the whole of the Cenci family were arrested early in 1599; but the story of the hardships they underwent in prison is greatly exaggerated.

The hardships of war and the excesses of peace shortened the lives of the men; the kingdom of Jerusalem had eleven kings within a century.

In military matters Hadrian was a strict disciplinarian, but his generosity and readiness to share their hardships endeared him to the soldiers.

The hardships endured by Babeuf during early years do much to explain his later opinions.

The hardships of their lot, and, above all, the system by which the strongest of their sons were carried off as recruits for the corps of janissaries, frequently drove them to brigandage, and occasionally to open revolt.

On the other hand, the Russians, once their fatherland was invaded, became dominated by an ever-growing spirit of fanaticism, and they were by nature too obedient to their natural leaders, and too well inured to the hardships of campaigning, to lose their courage in a retreat.

The Russian pursuit practically ceased at the line of the Niemen, for their troops also had suffered terrible hardships and a period of rest had become an absolute necessity.

Amid many hardships and discouragements he persevered; and at the present day the native race is civilized and Christianized.