With a £4.1bn-a-year budget black hole facing embattled town halls they need this more than ever.
I cite the lines of Lynn Carlin, the embattled wife in Faces: "I've got lots to say - you want to try me".
And what is perhaps the most prominent nonbudgetary initiative on Mr. Brown's docket — a high-speed rail line to whisk riders between San Francisco and Los Angeles, the kind of legacy project identified with his father, Gov. Pat Brown — is embattled as well, facing rising opposition and questions about its feasibility and cost.
John Hooper also records the difficulties the WikiLeaks revelations have caused for Berlusconi back home in Italy in an already hostile political climate: The release of the cables by Wikileaks deepened the crisis surrounding Berlusconi's already embattled government, which faces a motion of no-confidence on 14 December.
With the European and world economies flagging, Greece and other embattled nations face an uphill struggle in reducing their deficits to 3 percent or less of G.D.P. as stipulated under euro zone rules.
But the move has unleashed a torrent of telephone calls and e-mail messages to state lawmakers, newspapers and the Department of Transportation deploring the lost toilets — one of the scores of small indignities among larger hardships that residents of embattled states face as governments scramble to shore up their finances.
Alone, embattled, and let's face it looking his age (especially after being socked in the mouth by a bagful of coins), Westworld's oldest customer might be nearing his expiry date.
Just what the future may look like, and the undercurrents the political spectrum faces in our current embattled discourse faces will be the subject of the second part of our interview.
The shooting rattled the already embattled Police Department, which was facing accusations in the brutality case of Abner Louima, who was sodomized with a broomstick in the restroom of the 70th Precinct station house earlier that month, on Aug. 9, 1997.
Wolfgang Schauble, leader of the embattled Christian Democratic Union, faced growing calls to quit after admitting to a third meeting with a fugitive arms dealer, Karlheinz Schreiber.
