On the family level the typical conflict between mother - in - law abd her child's spouse is in its essence a struggle for power... Social clubs, fraternities, faculties, and business organizations are scenes of continuous struggle of power between groups that either want to keep what power they already have or seek to attain new power... «of the gods we know.» (politics.stackexchange.com)
The impression prevails that, despite decades of continuous struggle for reform, little or nothing has changed. (sciencemag.org)
Although Williams goes on to qualify significantly the claim that Israel's understanding of God's love is ethnocentric, he cites with approval H. Richard Niebuhr's statement «that the history of Israel is marked by an almost continuous struggle between social henotheism and radical monotheism» (SFL 26). (religion-online.org)