battlers

If any team in this competition could be called battlers, it's us.

News round-up 2009

"Well," he said, looking about uneasily, "we're supposed to get a fiver for a losing mount and ten pounds if we win, but a lot of the steeplechase-owners are what I call 'battlers' -- men who have no money and get along by owing everybody.

Three Elephant Power and Other Stories 1902

We're only 'battlers', me and my mate, pickin 'up crumbs by the wayside.

Over the Sliprails Henry Lawson 1894

This splits Labor voters into the blue collar (ex-Howard) '' battlers '' who are suspicious of people in boats, and middle-class '' progressives '' who want to see Australia take a sympathetic approach.

The Sydney Morning Herald News Headlines 2010

Listening this past week to various national news correspondents reporting from Ottawa, I wondered if our politicians really liked to be known as "battlers" and "bruisers."

Fort Frances Times Online - 2009

South Asians, Jews - economically beleaguered "battlers" and a broad spectrum of "aspirational voters" wanting more material gains for themselves and their children and feeling ripped off by the state, the elites and big business.

CanCult.ca 2008

Australia, Pope John Paul II said of her: "With gentleness, courage and compassion, she was a herald of the Good News among the isolated 'battlers' and the urban slum-dwellers.

Latest Articles 2010

Corliss found his thought following hers, and answered, These battlers of frost and fighters of hunger!

CHAPTER 14 2010

You (and I, I should admit) are turned off by the consequences, a fiercely competitive partisan battle that the battlers consider more important than addressing the country's and the world's grave problems.

Election 2010: Results and analysis with The Post's Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser 2010

You (and I, I should admit) are turned off by the consequences, a fiercely competitive partisan battle that the battlers consider more important than addressing the country's and the world's grave problems.

Election 2010: Results and analysis with The Post's Robert G. Kaiser Robert G. Kaiser 2010