Sentence examples for become embattled from inspiring English sources

It was one of numerous examples of how the boutique R.O.T.C. program at City College, once the largest in the nation, had become embattled as a symbol of American power.

In 1995 Andrea Rich moved from being the administrator of University of California, Los Angeles, to being president and CEO of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), only to become embattled and lose her art director four years later.

We become embattled with the ego.

And then there's Christmas itself, which has become embattled in recent years, co-opted by rampant commercialism, straight-jacketed by political correctness, and denuded of so much of its loveliness, holiness and mystery.

The researchers then looked more closely at six cities where police chiefs became embattled because of immigration disputes in their communities.

"THE FOLLOWERS" The relationship among three friends who want to pledge the same fraternity becomes embattled when one of them is not accepted because he is black.

"Jacqueline Kennedy: The White House Years -- Selections From the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum" presents the wardrobe of a woman who became embattled by the very forces she helped set in motion.

She is thin-skinned, fatigued, and full of embattled chagrin.

For other reasons, however, EES became embattled financially and politically as a result of cuts in federal and state spending as well as cuts to the space program.

Maduro, by contrast, has become increasingly embattled.

And yes, we forget that even France, which has become the embattled bastion of freedom of expression today, wears its own limits on its sleeve.