Sentence examples for beset as from inspiring English sources

And at that point the entire system, beset as well by environmental chaos, breaks down.

The Thieu govt., as it faces the new challenge of the P.R.G. is as badly beset as ever by old internal conflicts.

It is, at times, easy to feel a little sorry for City's players and manager, beset as they are by the requirement to continually justify their burnished status.

Naturally, many New Yorkers worry that this deal will eventually mean the disappearance of yet another born-in-New York business -- beset as those ventures have been by global brands like Starbucks and big-box stores like Home Depot.

We flinch from Puritanism because it placed sin at the center of life, but then, as she tartly reminds us, "Americans never think of themselves as sharing fully in the human condition, and therefore beset as all humankind is beset".

It takes a lot to make China's government — beset, as it is, by corruption and opacity and the paralyzing effects of special interests — look good, by comparison, in the eyes of its people these days.

Tells of the fear-neurosis that beset individuals as well as the nation as a whole.

"USS Callister," directed by Toby Haynes (Dr. Who, Sherlock), is probably the most clearly defined here: The story is set on a spaceship, where the crew is beset by as much terrifying shit onboard as they are by the dangerous galaxy outside their Star Trek like cruiser.

A scene of men performing the backbreaking work of clearing land is vivid enough to make the reader's body ache, and his descriptions of the squalor of the settlement and the epidemic that besets it, as well as the more obvious set pieces, like a skirmish with the Spanish, show that we are dealing with a very accomplished writer.

The anti-Santos right-wing coalition includes the scandal-beset Ordoñez, as well as former minister of defence Marta Lucía Ramírez, and former vice president German Vargas Lleras.

Japan, beset by deflation as well as recession, is the only exception to the rise in expected inflation this year.In this section Economic forecasts Overview Output, demand and jobs Prices and wages Cross-border M&As Commodity price index Stockmarkets Trade, exchange rates and budgets Money and interest rates Reprints.