Sentence examples for were embattled from inspiring English sources
adjective
Subject to or troubled by battles, controversy or debates.
Being fiercely criticised for his involvement in those cases, the family developed a sense that they were embattled, victimised and persecuted for their beliefs.
Could Morrissey ever not be embattled?
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.
MICHAEL STEELE has entered that company of politicians whose unofficial first names are "embattled"—like "embattled Roland Burris" and "embattled Scooter Libby".
Al-Shabaab may be embattled, but it is far from beaten.
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.
Mr Sarkozy is embattled on many fronts, judicial, economic and political.
France will be embattled if their supreme effort in this tournament is already behind them.
