Building up a unified European resolve is especially important because no one is under any illusion that the Obama administration wants to embroil itself deeper in the Middle East: America, miles across the Atlantic, simply doesn't feel its own security is on the line.
The most striking study linking cellular phone radiation to DNA damage, published in 2005 by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna, has recently been embroiled in even deeper scientific controversy: researchers studying the data intensively have argued that the original study is fraudulent.
Europe and Japan, embroiled in the deepest post-war recession, are barely worth consideration as rivals.
A barrage of bad news over the week indicated that the real economy, beyond the weakness in the financial sector, was heading into or already embroiled in a deep recession.
Britain, too, is embroiled in a deep identity crisis over its ties to Europe, although the Conservative Party's Save the Pound platform proved unpopular with the voters in Thursday's election.
It's all very Graham Greene and I can't help hoping we're going to find ourselves embroiled in a thriller deeper than the seas.
In Afghanistan, Mohseni is already deeply embroiled in politics.
The group is deep in debt, embroiled in a lawsuit with the engineering firm it had hired to inspect the wall before the collapse, and still unsure what the city will require of it to maintain the rest of the wall, which engineers have said remained structurally sound.
With the EU embroiled in the eurozone crisis and a deep debate over the future of Europe little surprise that one of the first questions in the room was what exactly the EU has done to promote peace in the last year...
And with the collapse of the "shareholder value" culture we're now embroiled in, some companies will be more vulnerable than those with deeper pockets.
