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The conservative tabloid Daily Mail said that "last week's pictures of embattled Presidents Clinton and Yeltsin clinging to one another like drunks trying to stay upright do not exactly lend weight to the think tank's call for an elected monarchy."
Rodchenko and his friends in the various groupings of the left wing of Soviet art in the 1920s saw themselves as embattled representatives of the true spirit of the Revolution, in the face of various currents of reaction, mediocrity, timidity, and stasis.
Many Americans see Saudi Arabia as an enemy, not as an embattled ally.
If they are embattled, it is like the old days in the West, with the invaders surrounded in their forts by the Indians to whom the region belonged.
If true, this is an ironic name for a city that would become one of the most constantly and bitterly embattled places on the face of the earth.