Sentence examples for feeling embattled from inspiring English sources

One cannot blame Scudamore for feeling embattled and he does not see a weakness in the league potentially losing Bale.

Pressures have been mounting for decades as the demography of Belfast has shifted, with the Catholics in the numerical ascendancy and Protestants feeling embattled.

Ross famously saw failure and disappointment lurking everywhere, and he seemed to almost enjoy feeling embattled; his beleaguered vigilance was part of what made him charming, irritating, and successful.

RESIDENTS of the bungalow district of Brighton Beach, a 10-block stretch of wooden single-family houses in Brooklyn that stand cheek-by-jowl along narrow lanes, are accustomed to feeling embattled.

In particular, in the wake of Kosslyn's (1980 , 1994 seminal work on the cognitive psychology of imagery, a growing number of philosophers are now ready to defend the reality of mental pictures, and show no sign whatsoever of feeling embattled (e.g., von Eckardt, 1988, 1993; Tye, 1988, 1991; Mortensen, 1989; Brann, 1991; Cohen, 1996; Rollins, 2001).

Dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people have died in this continuing conflict, and claims of torture, disappearances and mass graves have left communities feeling embattled and victimised.

The authorities began to feel embattled.

They feel embattled at the moment.

They lost confidence in him, and he, feeling increasingly embattled, seemed to lose nerve in his ability to achieve reform, acting more and more on the defensive.

As a jab at the movie business, "Tropic Thunder" is flailing and unfocussed, and the caterwauling of the characters and the nastiness (at once silly and bloody) of the special effects leaves you feeling more embattled than entertained.

As a jab at the movie business, "Tropic Thunder" is flailing and unfocussed, and the caterwauling of the characters and the nastiness (at once silly and bloody) of the special effects leave you feeling more embattled than entertained.