Sentence examples for embattled in from inspiring English sources

The pack grew heavier and the bergs more numerous, embattled in a formidable array.

Mr. Franks has spent his political career espousing a moderate Republicanism that has been increasingly embattled in recent years.

It is here that you get an idea of a woman embattled in something psychologically terrifying and life-altering.

Indeed, she and her husband felt so hopeless and embattled in the weeks after his arrest that they tried to commit suicide by swallowing large handfuls of Ambien, she said.

MADOFF SCANDAL Ruth Madoff said that "she and her husband felt so hopeless and embattled in the weeks after his arrest that they tried to commit suicide by swallowing large handfuls of Ambien," The Times's Diana B. Henriques reported.

Mr. Greenberg, who was pushed out of A.I.G. in an accounting scandal in 2005, remains chairman of the foundation and is still embattled in lawsuits surrounding his role at the company.

It was to keep the embattled Mikhail Gorbachev in power in the Kremlin, and his hardline opponents out of it.

But he continued as an energy entrepreneur and consultant for another twenty years, while becoming increasingly involved in projects to help embattled natives in the Amazon.

WHEN Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva pays his first presidential visit to Washington this week, will pundits portray him as "embattled" or as "in command"?

He looks a man embattled, helmeted in his own skull, alone against oblivion.

So it should come as no surprise to find this former "Frasier" star embattled again in his latest venture.