1. He was grappling with an alligator in a lagoon.

2. Molly's upstairs grappling with her maths homework.

3. I've spent all afternoon grappling with these accounts.

4. I was grappling to find an answer to his question.

5. Today, many Americans are still grappling with the issue of race.

6. He has been grappling with the problem for a long time.

7. A young man was grappling with the guard.

8. The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but still the cars choke the cobbled streets.

9. In his corner Joseph found himself grappling with an overwhelming sense of bewilderment.

10. Grappling with the many varied problems of the nineteenth century, it tackled innumerable tasks and faced innumerable obstacles.

11. For instance, judo flyweight Karen Briggs grappling on with a dislocated shoulder shoved back in its socket.

12. Their history, their grappling with the meaning of freedom, was here and now.

13. Memory and imagination were grappling at each other's throats, and these people would lose if he lay here much longer.

14. Right now Waid is grappling with the problem of space in his compositions.

15. He was on full wets, grappling with incipient understeer, while the Ferraris were using their intermediates to brilliant effect.

16. Grappling irons were thrown out but these, too, proved ineffective.

17. He accepts that aid agencies are grappling with highly complex issues.

18. In any case, Amiss's mind was racing, grappling with a situation devoid of any rational explanation.

19. As well as grappling with the weakness of output, policymakers are contending with another emerging markets crisis.

20. They were grappling, and she'd got her hand on the woman's windpipe, holding her off, squeezing.

21. The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade, but cars still choke the streets in the rush hour.

22. The question Democrats are grappling with now is how far to take their campaign against Gingrich.

23. Some films show their makers grappling with contemporary issues, without always the level of visual inventiveness applied elsewhere.

24. This book is weakest when grappling with current events.

25. The economy is just one of several critical problems the country is grappling with.

26. One corner of the Instrumentation and Control Board activities was concerned for weeks or months with grappling with the problem.

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27. There is no environmental policy in a country that is still grappling with increasing poverty.

28. Finally the book also exposes you to the experience of change through a number of stories of people grappling with behavior-driven challenges.

29. Visible for a modest $ 2 per person fee, the nine paintings show satyr-like men grappling uncertainly with fleshy nude women.

30. But it also stirred feelings of guilt and pity within me which I am still grappling to explain to myself.