What's the difference between fiasco and struggle?
Fiasco
Definition:
(n.) A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said there were a sufficient number of shifts at Heathrow to maintain "a full immigration desk policy" and insisted the contingency planning for security at the Games, which had seen more than 18,000 military personnel called in, meant the government had enough troops in place or in reserve to make up for the G4S staffing fiasco.
(2) Train operators fear the revised rail franchise timetable announced in the wake of the west coast fiasco is already slipping as documents for the first contest appear likely to be delayed until autumn.
(3) The BBC Trust The green paper sounds the death knell for the BBC’s current governance system in the form of the BBC Trust, which it says has come under “sustained criticism” as a result of the Savile scandal, the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco and excessive payoffs and salaries to BBC executives.
(4) It will come under close examination given recent controversies over BBC spending, from the multi-million payoffs given to former executives to the £100m Digital Media Initiative fiasco.
(5) The dotcom fiasco, and that is what it looks like, noting as we do many more complaints over praise for the current proposition, leaves a bitter taste for investors to our minds.
(6) The carmaker's full-year results highlight how, when the quake struck, Toyota had been on its way to a recovery from the recall fiasco, affecting 14m vehicles worldwide, which had battered its reputation for quality.
(7) It only looks like a $100m movie.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest I think Britons of Poulter’s generation – now in their late teens and early 20s, spectators while the economic fiascos of recent years shredded their odds of financial stability in the future – are more inclined to be aware of money, and more inclined to be aware of its reckless use.
(8) Then there’s the shift from disability living allowance to the personal independence payment , which last month the public accounts committee savaged as a “fiasco”, leaving many facing six-months delays – and the dying having to wait for weeks for support.
(9) On Thursday morning the opposition said it was “clearly a port” and accused Giles of hiding amid the fiasco.
(10) Nearly every discussion of the Greek fiasco is based on a morality play.
(11) Morrissey also has words for the royal family, saying Prince William and his new "fiasco" fiancee, Kate Middleton, "are so dull as people that it is actually impossible to discuss them".
(12) It owed altogether too much to Scott and was a fiasco that stung its author so badly that a story claims he sought out all the copies he could find to have them burnt.
(13) No more welfare cuts to come under Theresa May, says minister Read more Claimants might breathe a sigh of relief that no more cuts are expected, but even Osborne had by the end, via the tax credits U-turn and the personal independence payments (PIP) fiasco , crashed into the limits of what was politically possible.
(14) Spelman has failed to recover from the fiasco of plans to sell off parts of the national forest.
(15) The word "fiasco" spends most of the year slumbering undisturbed, but come the exam results and it's everywhere.
(16) The UK Border Agency is to be split in two after an official inquiry report found that poor communication, poor oversight and confusion among ministers and senior officials lay at the heart of last summer's border checks fiasco.
(17) Romney said the fallout from the G4S security fiasco and a threatened strike by immigration officials were "disconcerting" and questioned whether British people would get behind the Games.
(18) That has officials worried about excessive levels of debt, which could potentially lead to a crisis akin to the US mortgages fiasco that metastasised into the 2008 credit crunch and subsequent global recession.
(19) Their concerns over the company's property assets (articulated by Katy Clark MP at several sessions) are a reminder that the verdict on whether the float is a success or a fiasco can't come for years.
(20) But the public, and especially the party’s supporters, deserve to know what happened and what has happened behind the scenes in this fiasco within the party of transparency, and I have decided that this is the best course of action.
Struggle
Definition:
(v. i.) To strive, or to make efforts, with a twisting, or with contortions of the body.
(v. i.) To use great efforts; to labor hard; to strive; to contend forcibly; as, to struggle to save one's life; to struggle with the waves; to struggle with adversity.
(v. i.) To labor in pain or anguish; to be in agony; to labor in any kind of difficulty or distress.
(n.) A violent effort or efforts with contortions of the body; agony; distress.
(n.) Great labor; forcible effort to obtain an object, or to avert an evil.
(n.) Contest; contention; strife.
Example Sentences:
(1) They had learned through hard experience what Frederick Douglass once taught -- that freedom is not given, it must be won, through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith.
(2) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(3) Slager, 33, was a patrolman first class for the North Charleston police department when he fatally shot Scott, 50, following a struggle that led from a traffic stop when the officer noticed that one of Scott’s car tail lights was broken.
(4) For a union that, in less than 25 years, has had to cope with the end of the cold war, the expansion from 12 to 28 members, the struggle to create a single currency and, most recently, the eurozone crisis, such a claim risks accusations of hyperbole.
(5) He said: “Almost daily we hear from parents desperate to escape the single cramped room of a B&B or hostel that they find themselves struggling to raise their children in.
(6) Nevertheless we know that there will remain a large number of borrowers with payday loans who are struggling to cope with their debts, and it is essential that these customers are signposted to free debt advice.
(7) Its struggling mobile phone business resulted in a net loss of 136 billion yen for the three months to September, although that figure was smaller than analysts had predicted.
(8) They took 15% in 2010, with the other parties caught in a scrappy three-way struggle in which the winning Lib Dems came in below 30%.
(9) Likewise, Blanchett's co-star Alec Baldwin appeared to call for an end to the public nature of the row, terming Dylan's allegations "this family's personal struggle".
(10) RIM has always struggled to explain to the authorities that, unlike most other companies, it technically cannot access or read the majority of the messages sent by users over its network.
(11) But she has struggled – quite awkwardly – to articulate her evolution on same-sex marriage, and has left environmental activists wondering what her exact energy policy is.
(12) They anticipated the following scenario: a struggling club fires its manager and enjoys an immediate upsurge.
(13) While Greece struggled to find a new leader, the spotlight turn dramatically to Italy.
(14) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(15) They had been pinning their hopes on Alan Johnson who has, in their eyes, the natural authority and ease of manner which Miliband has struggled to develop.
(16) The real change is coming from the community-led frontline struggles.
(17) As ABC reports, Adam Bandt, the only Greens MP in the lower house, won his Melbourne seat with the help of Liberal preferences at the last election, and may struggle to hold it on 7 September.
(18) I have always struggled with the quality of my own work but despite my misgivings about the photos I am taking I can't honestly say they would have been any better two years ago.
(19) Braff will direct and play the lead role of a father, actor and husband struggling to find his identity.
(20) Young people from ordinary working families that are struggling to get by.” Labour said Greening’s department had deliberately excluded the poorest families from her calculations to make access to grammar schools seem fairer and accused her of “fiddling the figures”.