Sentence examples for as an embattled from inspiring English sources

"An unembarrassed sense of what he is owed as an embattled, literary immortal-in-waiting pervades his book," she writes.

Judges Lynn Barber, John Walsh and Francis Wheen chose Long's write-up ahead of Zoë Heller's dire review of Salman Rushdie's memoir Joseph Anton – "an unembarrassed sense of what he is owed as an embattled, literary immortal-in-waiting pervades his book", wrote Heller – and Craig Brown's rejection of Richard Bradford's The Odd Couple as "a triumph of 'cut and paste'" as their winner.

Turkish leaders already regard their country as an embattled front line against illegal immigrants from Asia.

Of course it can flourish as an embattled and angry sect.

ALEX SALMOND, Scotland's first minister, likes to be seen as an embattled hero fighting off threats to all things Scottish.

Religious-right leaders have perpetuated these attitudes and done their best to see that evangelicals continue to regard themselves as an embattled subculture.

"There is no part of the national curriculum so likely to prove an ideological battleground for contending armies as history," complained an embattled Michael Gove in a speech last week.

Already upcoming films such as  "Guardians" and TV properties such as "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D" have sought to popularize less widely known parts of the Marvel canon, as has an embattled "Ant-Man" film.

As a press secretary he was a staunch defender of Mr. Gingrich, who as an often embattled speaker engineered the Republicans' first House majority in 40 years in the 1994 elections.

John Mahoney, who played the father of a shrink for laughs on "Frasier," is now on the couch in deadly earnest as Walter, an embattled chief executive who comes to Paul for help with panic attacks.

"The director Mike Nichols, smartly taking advantage of television's intimacy, creates such a raw, private encounter with Vivian that we seem to be peering into a soul as embattled as its body," Caryn James wrote in The New York Times.