Disappointment and grief seemed constant companions as they were beset by failure after failure in pursuit of the dream.
Neoliberal policies are everywhere beset by market failures.
St Andrew's as a charity re-invests all monies into care, helping square the circle of quality and cost, when the health world seems beset by care failures, financial insecurity, and, quite often, organisational muddle.
Kramer, George and Elaine were losers, beset by small failures of the sort that are frequently best ignored but which sometimes add up to the equivalent of a slow-motion, multi-car collision.
Indeed, the patent system is beset by information failure.
Against the Apple ][, the IBM PC was a superior product – and deftly marketed. For the next few years, the Apple ][ family stumbled. The Apple ///, beset by early hardware failures, didn't answer the 16-bit question. It wasn't the modernisation of the Apple ][ that the company had promised.
As we wrote in our letter, POGO has obtained a number of documents showing that Lockheed Martin's USS Freedom has been "plagued by flawed designs and failed equipment since being commissioned, has at least 17 known cracks, and has repeatedly been beset by engine-related failures".
Goddard, a New Zealand judge who was the third person to have been named as inquiry chair, offered her resignation last week, saying the inquiry had been beset by a "legacy of failure".
"Unfortunately, in recent years the [Eels] club has been beset by instability, caused by governance failure, and there is a clear and urgent need for this situation to be rectified".
The agency has been beset by IT and telephony system failure for months resulting in frustration for staff and public alike all at a time when the agency is looking to shed a third of its workforce.
To Murray, the residents of Belmont, whom he saw as mostly liberal, seemed beset by an "ecumenical niceness," a failure to denounce the moral collapse on the other side of the tracks, to acknowledge that something had gone terribly wrong.
