Sentence examples for embattled people from inspiring English sources

The gathering fierceness and strictness of the Torah are those of an embattled people and an embattled priesthood.

The best way for Americans to show meaningful solidarity with embattled people around the world is to remember that, in the end, it's not about us.

He speculates that Mr Salmond's new approach may be attracting the rootless to a new identity as an embattled people struggling for justice against an imperious English foe, thus burnishing a different case for independence.This may seem improbable given that a Scottish MP, Gordon Brown, currently resides in Downing Street.

Its presence was palpable in the self-image of an ordinary embattled people rising to the occasion in countless ways, as if we were once more "out in some strange night caring for each other," as Ernie Pyle wrote of the G.I.'s he chronicled.

See what I mean by embattled people feeling good about themselves?

For eight nights, Jews mark the miracle of light that lasted beyond its time, the strength of an embattled people who fought a powerful army and retained their faith.

These embattled peoples are once again suffering the brunt of our collective rapacity, this time in territory degradation and species loss.

Following in the wake of generations of stupid parents who don't get it, we embattled husks of people have gleaned a few survival strategies from our forebears.

Citi has hired Dan Petherick, an equity derivatives salesman, from Morgan Stanley, offering Petherick a guaranteed bonus to join the embattled bank, say people familiar with the situation.

On Tuesday, a helicopter bearing supplies for the embattled Yazidi people crashed in the mountains outside the city of Sinjar in Iraq's volatile northwest.

Even during the 1990s, when the British monarchy seemed so embattled, the number of people telling opinion pollsters that they would vote in a referendum in favour of replacing it with a republic was no more than one in five.