A lot of jazz musicians acquire an air of embattled road-weariness, which they couple with a deadpan Bill Baileyish relish for the bleakly ludicrous – but not Simcock.
A full guest list did not deter the star from extending another invite: to embattled "On The Road" actress Kristen Stewart.
Colonel Wilson was just back from a large jirga where, dressed in a blue salwar kameez, he had spoken before Ghaziabad elders, government officials and Afghan security forces about plans to pave and secure the embattled section of the road.
After Ed Whitson lost his first start in front of a hostile home crowd at Yankee Stadium last week, Manager Lou Piniella decided that the embattled pitcher would start on the road in the foreseeable future.
But the mountain road linking Albania to its embattled cousins is a logistical nightmare.
LONDON -- Robert Dudley, who is expected to be appointed the chief executive of BP on Monday night at a board meeting here, faces a long road to restore confidence in the embattled company -- particularly in the United States, the biggest part of BP's business.
Bama lies along a critical road connecting Cameroon to Maiduguri, the embattled north-eastern Nigerian capital and epicentre of the Islamists' activities.
Maybe that's because the cap-and-trade exchange that allows heavy polluters to mitigate their damage by purchasing emission credits, and which is one of the state's most embattled emission-reduction programs, got kicked down the road.
The road is the army's only route to the embattled city of Aleppo, with the rest blocked by rebels, the Observatory's director, Rami Abdelrahman, said by telephone.
Their determination was all the more remarkable given the town's location, on the main road from the battered city of Homs to the increasingly embattled capital, Damascus.
