Examples of beleaguer

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The authors, beleaguered in their own country, appear to be equally wary of their prospective audience elsewhere.
Trouble grew between the family whose house was beleaguered each night and the unwelcome street visitors.
By the mid-1940s, therefore, the jobbers found themselves beleaguered on every front.
At the same time, the public believed they were beleaguered by crime.
Rulers, however beleaguered, still wanted to be treated as patrons, but although singers kept up the old obsequious language they felt freer in practice to do what suited them.
In the meantime, professionals, who were clearly feeling beleaguered and threatened, took concerted and strong action on certain aspects, especially as they related to practice guidelines.
Such extremely intolerant political discourses were hardened further in response to pressures to democratise, and the regime, which was already economically beleaguered, responded by going on the offensive.
We do not need to create even more paperwork and administrative hassle for already beleaguered farmers.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He has this safety net where he can come in with all the power of the state against somebody who is being beleaguered.
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