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32 examples of Embattled in a sentence

it's been too long since you've appeared in a movie,, and what a movie this was, was it 24 no,, but very intriguing, especially with a pro like Michael Douglas in the lead as the embattled Secret Service Agent.
This thought is one of many that haunts a group of Spanish peacekeepers in the embattled Serbian province of Kosovo.
They slowly begin to lose that veneer of civilization that they though only they possessed, the same patina these embattled locals once had, but lost long ago.
So you would think the same would be true for US households and embattled European governments.
The IMF Needs a Leader from the Emerging CountriesHorst Kohler's resignation as Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund offers a unique opportunity to reform the embattled international financial institution.
On September 2, the Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail reported on recent negotiations between the embattled Qaddafi regime and Chinese armaments companies with direct ties to China’s government for contracts worth $200 million.
Stepping in to back the embattled president, the Organization of American States recently issued a call that Toledo be allowed to finish his term.
For Pakistan’s small and embattled liberal and left-wing forces, he is yet another military dictator who seized and holds power by force, undermining the development of democracy.
The debate in the US, long Egypt’s primary ally and donor, did not center on strengthening Egypt’s embattled institutions, but focused instead on how to ease the military out of power by withholding aid.
Pakistan’s embattled president, Pervez Musharraf, once declared, “I am not at all a politician.
Indeed, an increasingly embattled Jonathan recently declared that his own cabinet, in addition to the security agencies, is riddled with “Boko Haram sympathizers.”
Infrastructure investment - which had been difficult for the embattled British Raj to finance--suddenly boomed.
These are powerful forces for change, and embattled governments should harness them to the goal of achieving the reengineering they so urgently need.
An official split among embattled and embittered rival factions may very well take place when the ANC chooses a new leader later this year.
There is an almost embattled culture among many senior officials, who fear that fanning the flames of dissent among Europe’s voters could one day knock European unity off course.
The paucity of support for embattled Ukraine from the Western democracies is a sad reminder of their failure to stand up to Hitler (not only in Czechoslovakia, but also in the Spanish Civil War).
In Ireland, an embattled austerity-driven coalition government might well have no choice but to hold a referendum on the European Stability Mechanism.
The governor of Borno State is warning that failure to help his embattled schools will be disastrous for the rule of law throughout Nigeria.
Putin’s embattled opponents can safely predict a long period of political, economic, and intellectual stagnation – certainly until the parliamentary election next year and the presidential election two years later.
What we know is that Putin has decided to come to the aid of Bashar al-Assad’s embattled regime.
That effort is exemplified by the recent appointment of firebrand John Bolton to replace the embattled H.R. McMaster as National Security Adviser.
Regardless, the ANC, accustomed to winning well above 65% of the vote (mainly owing to its liberation credentials), continued to back the embattled Zuma, who faces accusations ranging from bribery to rape.
The rise of Islamists throughout the region as the sole power capable of exploiting the opportunities of free elections – Hamas’ victory in Palestine and the Muslim Brotherhood’s spectacular gains in the 2005 Egyptian elections are but the most noteworthy – the ascendancy to regional hegemony of Shiite Iran, and the sense among Arab rulers that the embattled Bush administration is running out of steam have all combined to stall the promising drive to political reform in the region.
The growth of Israel from a small and poor embattled land with 650,000 Jewish inhabitants at its founding to a thriving nation of almost eight million people today resulted from demographic changes that gradually but decisively altered the country’s social structure and politics.
In line with this perspective, when Russia intervened in Syria to prop up its embattled ally, President Bashar al-Assad, many viewed the move as simple opportunism: Putin was taking advantage of the chaos to show that he could still thwart the West’s plans.
But Lebanese civil society faces far stiffer opposition today than anything the embattled Syrians could mount in 2005.
While America was busy fighting ISIS, Iran helped rescue the embattled Syrian regime and deployed its own forces along Israel’s borders.
With an impressive 71% turnout, the election was widely seen as a vote of no confidence in the embattled China-backed chief executive, Carrie Lam.
Now, Trump and his embattled administration are returning to the same playbook to devise a stimulus program for the current crisis.
The two boys were sworn friends all the week, and embattled enemies on Saturdays.