Sentence examples for his besetting from inspiring English sources

Fortune thus played into Alexius's hands by ridding him of two of his besetting enemies.

And neither are we without sympathy for him: for his emotional stuntedness, his besetting blandness and his rather understandable desire to pre-empt catastrophe before it hunts him down.

It amounts to a retroactive "Mission Accomplished," given that Napoleon abandoned his beset soldiers in 1799 to make political hay at home.

I will take it," Mr Blatter told the delegates in the minutes before the vote, at the end of two long days and seventeen long years of absolving himself of all responsibility for every last crisis that his beset his sham of an organisation.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been rather scarce lately, despite a host of woes besetting his company — but Wednesday he emerged from his cocoon to offer a limp apology, admit they had no control over data like that used by Cambridge Analytica, and that he "will happily" testify before Congress if he's the right person to do so.

Recent weeks have seen his movement beset by challenges.

His party, beset by debt, has been shaken by allegations of financial scandals and bitter infighting.

With his administration beset with declining approval ratings, Hollande struggled with an unemployment rate that topped 10 percent.

"I'm still very optimistic about the whole affair," Hodgson said shortly after the draw had been made, looking, as is his habit, beset with gloom-laden foreboding.

Ferguson, 69, has seen his squad beset by injuries, with winger Ashley Young the latest casualty.

His ship beset by storms, Hatley shot an albatross in the hope of better winds, an episode memorialised by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.