Sentence examples for beleaguered face from inspiring English sources

'What if it has a little bit more –' 'Aarrrrrgggh!'" He pulls a beleaguered face.

PAGE A19 New York CONNECTICUT UTILITY LEADER RESIGNS UNDER PRESSURE Jeffrey D. Butler, who served as the beleaguered face of Connecticut's biggest utility while it struggled for more than 10 days to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses after a pre-Halloween snowstorm, resigned under pressure.

Jeffrey D. Butler, who was the beleaguered face of Connecticut's biggest utility as it struggled for more than 10 days to restore power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses after a late-October snowstorm, resigned under pressure on Thursday.

After that fixture McLeish's beleaguered side face Tottenham Hotspur at Villa Park, where they have won only four league games this season and are guaranteed to finish the campaign with the poorest home record in their history, before travelling to Norwich City on the final day.

By 1995, Yeltsin, who ascended to power after the coup, was enfeebled and beleaguered, facing long odds of re-election.

Indeed, the beleaguered faces of the desperate homeowners at "Save the Dream" brought to my mind a famous Dorothea Lange photo of a Depression-era bread line in San Francisco's Mission District, an image captured 75 years earlier just miles from where I stood.

Then at 4.30pm it's over to ESPN and the Emirates, where poor, beleaguered Arsenal face Newcastle, hardly in the most sparkling form themselves. Tense.

In many ways the obstacles Hardy's beleaguered characters face are as evident today as they were in his time: the unbridgeable gap between rich and poor, advanced education that favors the privileged, religious intolerance, and sexual double standards regarding honor and virtue.

The French assault, heralded by cannon fire, caused Dokhturov's troops to turn their attention from Gazan's beleaguered force to face these new assailants.

On the eve of the 1996 vote, when a beleaguered Yeltsin faced a resurgent Communist opponent, he offered the oligarchs, including Berezovsky, a deal.

The escalation can no doubt be attributed in part to the inevitable xenophobia of an economically beleaguered nation faced with a decades-long inundation of illegal foreign laborers.