Sentence examples for have been embattled from inspiring English sources

Race-conscious programs in education — affirmative action in college admissions and voluntary integration of public schools — have been embattled for more than 40 years.

Of late, that government has been embattled.

But it had been embattled for months, and its failure was considered imminent.

But it turns out that the dessert has been embattled since the earliest days of the Union.

He noted that cities like Homs and Hama that had been embattled for months enjoyed at least a temporary quiet while the observers were present.

"The Lee I discovered was very different from the one I had been embattled with for so many years," he writes in the postscript to his biography.

In winning North Carolina by 14 percentage points, Mr. Obama — whose campaign had been embattled by controversy over the incendiary remarks of his former pastor — recorded his first primary victory in nearly two months.

The site has been embattled as old press and state attorneys general use any excuse to blame sex crimes on the site.

The company has been embattled with intellectual property lawsuits about said beer for years, particularly in South America, The Wall Street Journal reports.

Since July, the dispensary has been embattled with the Chesterfield Township in a lawsuit that could play a significant role in shaping the debate over pot distribution in Michigan.

The Associated Press notes the news media has been embattled by a series of high profile missteps, particularly Rolling Stone's retracted report about a rape at a fraternity at the University of Virginia.