Sentence examples for is embattled from inspiring English sources
adjective
Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
Holder is embattled on a number of fronts.
Mr Sarkozy is embattled on many fronts, judicial, economic and political.
So while traditionalists complain that marriage is embattled, and while gay activists complain that marriage is unfair, Rauch insists that marriage is embattled because it's unfair.
That mother-daughter relationship is embattled, suffocating and incestuous in all but deed.
Yet Japanese health-care costs are a mere 8.5% of GDP.Even so, the country's medical system is embattled.
Mr Sharif is embattled at home, thanks to army disdain of him and to anti-government protests in Islamabad, the capital.
Could Morrissey ever not be embattled?
Of late, that government has been embattled.
In his last years, he was embattled and embittered.
But if Israeli liberals are embattled, they are not walking contradictions in terms.
MICHAEL STEELE has entered that company of politicians whose unofficial first names are "embattled"—like "embattled Roland Burris" and "embattled Scooter Libby".
