In exchange, Democrats assented to several other modest proposals authored by Republicans that would boost the FBI's beleaguered background-check system and increase funds to schools in order to improve campus safety.
Pity poor Mark "E" Everett: beleaguered by a family background pock-marked with mad genius, suicide and cancer, he's no sooner finally come to terms with turbulent desire in last year's Hombre Loco than he's left shattered by break-up, contemplating End Times.
In the background: the beleaguered yet venerable and revered Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
The sight of Rizvi on the front page of the Daily Record on Wednesday, chuckling in the company of director Sandy Easdale, could scarcely have been any more chilling for the club's beleaguered support had Craig Whyte been snapped in the background jumping into a taxi with the contents of the Ibrox trophy room in a large sack.
The Wall Street Journal, describing him as a "dealmaker," noted that his background as a legislator from a "beleaguered and traditional Democratic state" made him ideal to lead the way on across-the-aisle compromises.
Although from a markedly different background to the "common" Bob Hamiltonon's family were beleaguered toffs - the character is, emotionally, a self-portrait.
Unlike non-whites in Germany (historically guest workers without citizenship rights), or France (where "Frenchness" is defined in a way which excludes people unwilling to abandon their linguistic, cultural or religious background), Britain's immigrants found a route from beleaguered and isolated ghettoes into mainstream institutions.
Georgia says it is prepared to take part this time and blames Russia for the abandonment of the previous talks aimed at defusing tensions in the region.For background, see article CONGRESS is expected to consider a bail-out for America's beleaguered carmakers.
Everything in Ms. Fitzgerald's background ordained her for an intellectual career, and yet for much of her adult life she was beleaguered, coping with a husband who drank and had difficulty keeping a job, and raising three children.
Antony Hoffman, a first-time movie director with a background in commercials, will at long last see his first feature -- "Red Planet," a big-budget adventure involving beleaguered astronauts on Mars -- arrive in theaters all over the country today (review on page 13).
