Sentence examples for would be embroiled from inspiring English sources

Without Huddlestone there is a very good chance Hull City would be embroiled in a relegation fight now.

President Franklin Roosevelt declared it "a date which will live in infamy", and soon the US would be embroiled in the second world war.

Soon, Shinn would be embroiled in a seedy sex case (in which he won a civil suit filed against him) and the roster changed so much that no real connection existed between the fans and the players.

But far worse was to come: later in his planned 42,000-mile journey over five continents he would be embroiled in Afghanistan's civil war, jailed in China on suspicion of espionage, attacked with stones and axes, and twice mugged at gunpoint.

If this was Microsoft, calling someone to take back a video poking fun at Windows, the whole internet would be embroiled in controversy.

The circus bugs, no longer out to cheat the colony, would be embroiled in a comic misunderstanding about what Flik was recruiting them for.

"I believe in duty, honor and country, and I never thought I'd be embroiled in something like this," said Mr. McCain, a Navy war hero who was held prisoner in Vietnam.

I just one question for Mr. McCabe it's basically the morale of the agency, the FBI agency and the morale basically starting back from July 5th to July 7th, October 28th, November 6th and election day -- did you all ever think you'd be embroiled in an election such as this and did -- what did it do to the morale?

The song played out, and when complete was followed by breathing/snoring sounds as the camera panned over each figure — most notable personalities who'd been embroiled in controversy or scandal at one point or another: sex tapes, police arrests, a poorly planned invasion of Iraq.

Back then, if you had asked any voter if this country would still be embroiled in two wars seven or eight years on, they would have chuckled, even bristled with fear, and fobbed it off as doom-speak and defeatist thinking by a paranoiac borne of anti-American rhetoric.

If the Mets had a Jackie Robinson — fiery, indignant, burning with the will to win — the team would not be embroiled in a war of words over a highly paid but underperforming baseball team.