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Example sentences for: beleaguered

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For Klein, control is always bad--whether it's the evil health-and-fashion industry dictating our ideas about beauty, or the beleaguered dieter struggling to curb his cravings in a spirit of misguided self-hatred.
This is not because the notices have been uniformly glowing--it's been some time since a Scorsese picture won unanimous praise from reviewers--but because Scorsese remains, almost uniquely among American directors, an embodiment of the beleaguered idea that filmmaking, and therefore film criticism, can be a serious, important, life-and-death matter.
“It's Detroit sometime in the recent future, a city beleaguered by the sleaziest of criminals and defended by a police department that's the subsidiary of a big corporation.”
His efforts have not boosted test scores as much as had been promised, but modest improvements and Crew's political clout make him the beleaguered system's most impressive chief in decades.
It might just be that Moesha is about advertising dollars and not about oppressing the beleaguered white man.