Sentence examples for embattled quality from inspiring English sources

In recent months, with the 179-year-old quarrel between Britain and Argentina over the Falklands at its sharpest since the 1980s, and an erratic but tightening Argentinian economic blockade of the islands, everyday life here has taken on an even more self-consciously embattled quality than usual.

In senior care settings throughout the nation, Medicaid is increasingly reliant upon Medicare to supplement the widening, dangerous gap between the growing costs of providing quality care versus the amount state Medicaid programs actually pay to reimburse embattled facilities.

Last year embattled Apple Computer did it.

Photojournalism is today an embattled profession.

Partly because European governments are economically embattled.

Language teachers an embattled breed rejoiced.

MICHAEL STEELE has entered that company of politicians whose unofficial first names are "embattled"—like "embattled Roland Burris" and "embattled Scooter Libby".

The authorities began to feel embattled.

He knew an embattled romantic when he saw one.

The progressive ethos, currently embattled, has a proud history.

Embattled regimes and their insurgent enemies automatically gain allies.