The cubists, dadaists, Stravinsky, and many later art movements struggled against this conception that beauty was central to the definition of art, with such success that, according to Danto, " Beauty had disappeared not only from the advanced art of the 1960 ’ s but from the advanced philosophy of art of that decade as well.

The team struggled with injuries and lost all four tests ( a game against the Western Province had test status ).

Desmond Tutu, the former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has described homophobia as a " crime against humanity " and " every bit as unjust " as apartheid: " We struggled against apartheid in South Africa, supported by people the world over, because black people were being blamed and made to suffer for something we could do nothing about ; our very skins.

Capellas was able to restore some of the luster lost in the latter part of the Pfeiffer era and he repaired the relationship with Microsoft which had deteriorated under his predecessor's tenure, but the company still struggled against lower-cost competitors such as Dell who took over the top spot of PC manufacturer from Compaq in 2001.

Einstein struggled to the end of his life for a theory that could better comply with his idea of causality, protesting against the view that there exists no objective physical reality other than that which is revealed through measurement interpreted in terms of quantum mechanical formalism.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

For 30 years, Germany struggled against Britain to be Europe's leading industrial power, though both fell behind the United States.

Frederick III and I, known as Frederick Barbarossa because of his red beard, struggled throughout his reign to restore the power and prestige of the German monarchy against the dukes, whose power had grown both before and after the Investiture Controversy under his Salian predecessors.

The Texans have struggled in their own division, going 22-40 against these three teams.

Cronje struggled against India in his final Test series, scoring 25 runs in two Tests and taking six wickets.

But the team lost its next two games, and suffered embarrassing losses to the Houston Texans over the course of the season ( Jacksonville has struggled against the Texans since Houston entered the league in 2002 ).

When battle was near, it was drawn out ; then it roared and struggled against its thongs, fire flashed from it, and it tore through the ranks of the enemy once slipped from the leash, never tired of slaying.

The citizens constantly struggled against the archbishop, becoming nearly independent from him by the end of the 15th century.

In the 1980s the Giants and Redskins clashed as both struggled against each other for division titles and even Super Bowl Championships.

Lee denied the charge, explaining that he wrote those characters in order to depict how black artists struggled against exploitation.

Ongoing struggles over the control of Sicily provoked lengthy naval warfare: after the Sicilian Vespers rebellion, the French Angevins struggled against Aragon for control of the island.

Douglass and Tubman showed a great admiration for one another as they struggled together against slavery.

The Augustinianism of the Reformers struggled against Pelagianism, a heresy that they perceived in the Roman Catholic Church of their day.

During the 3rd century BC, the Veneti, together with the Cenomani Celts on their western border, sided with the Romans, as Rome expanded and struggled against the Insubres and Boii ( Celts ).

As Samuel struggled to preserve his country's independence from the Byzantine Empire, his rule was characterized by constant warfare against the Byzantines and their equally ambitious ruler Basil II.

Following Chamberlain's ideas, he condemned what he called " negative Christianity ," the orthodox beliefs of Protestant and Catholic churches, arguing instead for a so-called " positive " Christianity based on Chamberlain's claim that Jesus was a member of a Nordic enclave resident in ancient Galilee who struggled against Judaism.

In response, the MILF declared a jihad ( strived and struggled ) against the government, its citizens and supporters.

The people on this narrow strip of land struggled against the waters of the North Sea from the west, and the waters of the IJ and the Haarlem Lake from the east.

After returning to Italy for a rematch with Parlov, he and Parlov struggled to a ten round draw.

With unflinching pertinacity, he struggled until he had completed a likeness of the king upon which he was engaged at the time, and then started for his beloved Italy, leaving behind him a series of fifty royal portraits to be completed by his assistant Reinagle.

In Mexico, Argentina and Sardinia Petter struggled with his Impreza — technical problems caused two retirements and a plummet down the leaderboard in Italy.

It caused me to think about my grandparents, who came to America from Italy at the turn of the century and struggled their whole lives, never attending school, living in a walkup tenement in downtown Chicago.

He was sure of victory ; his raid was a private conflict, against the agreements made by the Emperor, who at the same time struggled to secure his rule in the Kingdom of Italy.

In Europe the Norwegians, the French resistance, the guerrillas of Northern Italy struggled for their national liberation as do the Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans today.

During that time he struggled to adapt to Italian football, and was criticised by the Venezia manager for his errors, and for his habit of controlling the ball with the outside of his foot, which in Italy is considered unconventional.

Schiavone struggled whilst representing Italy at Fed Cup versus Ukraine, losing to a non-top 100 player Lesia Tsurenko comprehensively 6 – 1 6 – 2 and barely getting past Kateryna Bondarenko 6 – 7 ( 6 ) 7 – 5 6 – 4.

Earnhardt also enjoyed strong second-place runs at Richmond and Martinsville, tracks where he'd struggled through the late ' 90s.

Back on Jura in gales and rainstorms he struggled to get on with Nineteen Eighty-Four but through the summer and autumn made good progress.

Nevertheless, the Royals struggled through another 100-loss season in 2006, becoming just the eleventh team in major league history to lose 100 games in three straight seasons.

Philadelphia football struggled through the Marion Campbell years of the mid-1980s and was marked by a malaise in fan participation.

South Africa, unlike other emerging markets, has struggled through the late 2000s recession, and the recovery has been largely led by private and public consumption growth, while export volumes and private investment have yet to fully recover.

Quarterback Mark Brunell — an off-season acquisition from the Jacksonville Jaguars — struggled in his first season, and was replaced midway through the season by backup Patrick Ramsey.

As a result, the entertainment industry struggled through the decade to find digital delivery systems for music, movies, and other media that reduce piracy and preserve profit.

Beethoven struggled to produce an appropriate overture for Fidelio, and ultimately went through four versions.

There was some concern as to whether he would regain top form as he struggled with mobility through the injured shoulder.

He lost his life savings to a collapsed bank in Chicago, and he struggled to keep his band together through a series of hand-to-mouth gigs until the group broke up and Oliver was stranded in Savannah, Georgia, where he worked as a janitor at Wimberly's Recreation Hall ( 526-528 West Broad Street ); "... he died there of arteriosclerosis, too broke to afford treatment.

Gregory struggled through personal relations with four Frankish kings, Sigebert I, Chilperic I, Guntram, and Childebert II and he personally knew most of the leading Franks.

Debord struggled to stipulate the finer points of this theoretical paradox, ultimately producing " Theory of the Dérive " in 1958, a document which essentially serves as an instruction manual for the psychogeographic procedure, executed through the act of dérive (" drift ").

Although the island struggled financially through the Great Depression, its reputation as a resort for tourists and the wealthy continued to grow.

The Flyers initially struggled out of the gate, going only 3 – 7 – 1 through their first 11 games while being outscored 34 – 22.

In the first round, they were once again matched against their rivals, the New York Knicks, who had struggled through the 50-game season and barely slipped into the playoffs with the # 8 seed.

With a shortage of healthy players the team struggled through a 17-game losing streak and finished with a 21 – 61 record.

The Ducks played through frequent injuries and picked up play in the second half of the season, but struggled coming out of the Olympic break.

Although still an important industrial city, Hopewell has struggled with transitions through loss of jobs, changes in residential housing patterns, and the costs of environmental clean-up.

Henderson struggled with a groin injury throughout much of the 1969 – 70 season, but attempted to play through at the team's request.

Europe had just struggled through " two difficult decades of political and social upheaval ," and now Great Britain hoped to show that technology, particularly its own, was the key to a better future.

Like much of the country, the area struggled through the Great Depression, followed by booming growth after world War II.