Sentence examples for embattled suburbs from inspiring English sources

Muslim leaders in war-torn Syria have issued a fatwa allowing citizens in the embattled suburbs of the capital Damascus to eat dogs and cats to satiate their hunger, according to multiple reports.

In embattled Damascus suburbs like Douma, streets were still filled with soldiers and tanks surrounding the town, while a resident of Aleppo reached by telephone said a full-scale army assault on a chain of villages north of the city was continuing unabated.

After World War II, American Jews cheered from a distance the foundation of the state of Israel, whose embattled birth coincided with American Jews' collective pilgrimage to the suburbs.

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.

Could Morrissey ever not be embattled?

Of late, that government has been embattled.