Sentence examples for may be embattled from inspiring English sources

Al-Shabaab may be embattled, but it is far from beaten.

Books may be embattled, but you wouldn't know it standing in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks and rows and upright displays of gorgeously designed covers.

By Macy Halford June 24 , 2010Books may be embattled, but you wouldn't know it standing in a bookstore, surrounded by stacks and rows and upright displays of gorgeously designed covers.

And such is the crazy logic of a wounded militarism that, notwithstanding its battered economy, the US may soon be embattled on many more fronts in what is already its most damaging war.

Could Morrissey ever not be embattled?

MICHAEL STEELE has entered that company of politicians whose unofficial first names are "embattled"—like "embattled Roland Burris" and "embattled Scooter Libby".

Of late, that government has been embattled.

In his last years, he was embattled and embittered.

Holder is embattled on a number of fronts.

But if Israeli liberals are embattled, they are not walking contradictions in terms.

It is not only in the courts (Larson 2003) that science teachers are embattled.