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Example sentences for: embattled

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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.
In the puns we have been looking at, the writer may revive and extend a metaphor (portraying the teachers as a small embattled force, but making them blue with cold, as well) while at the same time changing the form of the expression.
The Guardian of London said in an editorial that Russia's allowing a "token" visit by a representative of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to the embattled republic "will do nothing to halt the gut-wrenching mayhem in Chechnya, where there remains no prospect of a ceasefire or even of a de-escalation."
In earlier times, he would have been one of Enlightenment's missionaries; in our own, he has come to be seen more as a guardian, a defender of embattled humanism.
Bin Ladin shares Qutb's stark view, permitting him and his followers to rationalize even unprovoked mass murder as righteous defense of an embattled faith.