Sentence examples for so beset from inspiring English sources

But that seems like a pretty small victory in area so beset by problems.

Others, particularly in southern Africa, have been so beset by disease that they have been unable to take part.

Even in Africa, where people are so beset by their own daily tribulations, anti-Americanism simmers in some corners.

You have to go far down memory lane to think of a sporting event so beset by scandal.

Akron is so beset by foreclosures (there were several hundred last month) that it often takes a year or more for a foreclosure to result in an eviction.

Scheijen thinks that this new passion of Diaghilev's was partly an expression of nostalgia for his homeland, so beset at that time.

A world without nuclear weapons would greatly reduce the fear that so besets the global community.

The various scandals that have so far beset Labour combine many of the elements that damaged the Tories (see below).

Yet the tenacity of Republican opposition researchers does not by itself explain why Clinton and her husband are so often beset by accusation.

And, at a time when global sport is so often beset by charges of malfeasance and corruption, the street, a short, leafy and tranquil thoroughfare, somehow seems a fitting place to ponder the striving for excellence that Owens symbolized.

Nonetheless, at its heart, Worsley's is a generous novel, concerned with the vulnerability of human life (female life in particular) and the cost of freedom to characters so thoroughly beset by cruelty and limitation.