Sentence examples for of being embattled from inspiring English sources

He used his FA charge to foster a sense of being embattled and further fuelled his team.

Indeed, a second volume of memoirs, "Furthermore!," published in 1999, suggests a man who even while striving for serenity could never quite shed a sense of being embattled and having scores to settle.

She's been subject to a lot of personal criticism over the years, and although it's not clear to what extent she brought it on herself by rough tactics or unfriendly behaviour it seems to have started early, as did her sense of being embattled.

For one thing, those who hold improbably evil views already believe themselves to be embattled victims of the forces of evil.

But the biggest winner of the day was embattled oligarch Vladimir Yevtushenkov, whose Bashneft oil company, long ago privatized, was seized by the government this month in a controversial court case that shook the business community.

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.

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

By 1985 86 the government was embattled throughout most of Eritrea and Tigray, but Mengistu simply stepped up recruitment and asked the U.S.S.R. for more arms.

The top of the tower is embattled and contains the bases of eight pinnacles.

This is particularly true of climate science, which holds the odd dual distinction of being both the most embattled scientific discipline in America and one of the whitest fields in STEM.