She strove to document abuses against unarmed civilians in war torn regions worldwide.

The group fought against the governments of Mohammad Reza Shah and after the 1979 revolution, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Timor Leste s long struggle to achieve independence from Indonesian rule and move forward as a country is mirrored in its ongoing quest for worldwide recognition in the field of culture and the arts.

She expressed her gratitude to all those who made it possible for this law to be passed, something she had fought for through the foundation she runs.

At the 2005 U.S. National Championships, Johnson fell from the beam on the first day of competition and finished tenth all around.

For the next seven years, Solidarity fought for re legalization, building the biggest underground network of resistance Europe had seen since Hitler s war.

Other industries, including banking and retail trade, struggled with IT until they got it right. The gap between what IT promised and what it delivered in the early days was so stark that experts called it the IT productivity paradox.

Like Hungary, post communist Romania has struggled to increase transparency and honesty in what was once one of the world s most closed societies.

China has been struggling to balance centralization and fragmentation that is, control and uncertainty throughout its long history of rising and falling dynasties, domestic decay, and foreign invasion.

And it would provide a powerful example to other Asian countries including my own in which women have struggled to gain an electoral foothold.

The Panel has striven to deliver the perfect product in terms of its mandate, scientific rigor, peer review, and openness, and has brought forward the knowledge but also the knowledge gaps in terms of our understanding of global warming.

Its driving ideological force was a European inspired secular nationalism, which strove for political and social modernization through top down government action.

The financial industry battled against this new legislation. It lobbied regulatory agencies and Congress to delay or weaken reforms after they were enacted urged Congress to block key nominees and withhold essential funding and launched aggressive lawsuits to stymie implementation of important rules.