adverse circumstance

We should take this view concerning any perilous condition, any adverse circumstance, with our neighbors.

I struggled against the impulse, but I was drawn back, through every difficult and adverse circumstance, as by a mighty engine.

The greater part of Kociuszko's career is that of a man pitted against the weight of adverse circumstance.

Juarez and his party held their own through much adverse circumstance.

His tone indicated that he had chafed under this pressure of adverse circumstance.