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Protestants are generally a beleaguered minority.
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.
Subsidies were introduced in the case of food because at that time we were a beleaguered nation.
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We are in a way a beleaguered garrison.
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Imports will have to be increased, putting a greater pressure on the already beleaguered pound.
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The awkward squad need not therefore feel that they are beleaguered champions and that, were it not for them, nobody else would raise the issue.
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Both sides see their own community as beleaguered or besieged.
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Three-fifths of its capital is tied up in the beleaguered special steels sector.
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Many policemen and women feel beleaguered and misunderstood.
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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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They have been wrong about the impact of the recession—particularly on our beleaguered manufacturing industry.
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We shall be left with beleaguered merchant shipping yards open to the fierce winds of competition, and they may very well close one after another.
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Motorists, or those who choose to speak for them, frequently claim to be a beleaguered minority, unjustly restrained by speed limits and parking restrictions.
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The old function of the last defender of a beleaguered breach in a defensive wall is noble and picturesque, but it implies defeat.
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The members of that minority feel beleaguered and aggrieved, as the economy is a long way from being as buoyant as was alleged earlier today.
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People working in the health service in my area say that they feel beleaguered, oppressed, undermined and tyrannised.
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Despite its obvious advantages, nuclear power is at the moment a beleaguered industry and the subject of much vilification.
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All over the country adult education is beleaguered and under siege: it is high time the cavalry came over the hill.
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If it is a fact we are a beleaguered city, a great increase in food production is undoubtedly essential.
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In reality, the essential small pharmacies scheme, which is sometimes touted as a saviour for those beleaguered entities, supports only 286 pharmacies.
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The absence of new construction projects and the uncertainty that hangs over those already announced will not bring confidence back to the beleaguered construction industry.
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We in this nation are a beleaguered economic fortress: a very tight, embattled, economic fortress.
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A brigade there would be a beleaguered garrison.
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Any commander who puts a force deliberately into a position where it will be immediately beleaguered has the brains of a louse.
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We must make sure that we do not create a beleaguered attitude among the staff.
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Any profession may become preoccupied with a feeling of being beleaguered, misused and misunderstood.
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I have to take issue with the characterisation of the department as beleaguered.
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If we have to remain, possibly for years, as a beleaguered fortress, we shall have to adapt our finances to that situation.
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Down that nightmare flight path lies an environmental disaster of unimaginable proportions for already beleaguered airport communities.
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If it does not, that will be because of cuts in expenditure by beleaguered local authorities.
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My constituents saw a massive increase in crime and a police force that became beleaguered by the sheer scale of criminality.
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You are in the position of a beleaguered island—an invested city.
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Although we are now, happily, no longer beleaguered, shall we have to frame our agricultural system on the probability of our being beleaguered again?
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Classical swine fever, rhizomania and poor harvests have added to the problems faced by this beleaguered industry.
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There has been a great deal of media coverage and public debate recently on our beleaguered police service and whither its future.
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Behind each code word in the negotiating process looms an existential danger to a small beleaguered country.
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Was it worth it, especially when the sector from which it is to be taken is as beleaguered as the dairy sector?
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There would be a ready response to it from the beleaguered and long-suffering people of this country.
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What we need now is a working base and not a beleaguered garrison.
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The community itself must have felt beleaguered by the spectre of racism and seemingly ignored by those who should have been its protectors.
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They are forever beleaguered by demands, entreaties and supplications from all and sundry for infinite amounts of money to come from finite resources.
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There is a different atmosphere in many of the schools that were beleaguered before 1997 and a new sense of optimism.
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He is especially beleaguered at the moment and it is as if he can do nothing right.
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Certainly, the general costs should be borne by the general taxpayer, instead of additional costs landing on the beleaguered farmers.
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The council took the case to court, but it was thrown out by the magistrates and the tenants are still living in beleaguered circumstances.
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All my farmers tell me that to impose such a tax now would be a further threat to an already heavily beleaguered industry.
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Many policemen feel beleaguered, unappreciated, misunderstood and a breed apart.
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To say to our beleaguered farmers that they must take a cut in support is a serious political proposition.
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I say that with tremendous feeling for that beleaguered community.
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Compulsory drug testing and freedom of information will both, in their very different ways, place further strain on our beleaguered budgets.
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Such an enduring reduction would provide permanent relief to the prison service and its beleaguered staff.
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I also recognise that the majority of the community feel beleaguered.
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Will she answer the beleaguered housewives and householders on these many problems?
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The only method of retrieving the shortfall is for further cuts to be made in an already beleaguered service.
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They felt all the more beleaguered as a result of the international reaction.
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I cannot say what the situation in this town is at the present time, but the strong overall impression is of a beleaguered community.
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Any help for these beleaguered communities is most welcome.
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They would also be popular in this country with our own beleaguered car industry.
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He is, of course, beleaguered by all the large authorities with overspill problems.
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We do not need to create even more paperwork and administrative hassle for already beleaguered farmers.
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The abolition of the fuel escalator is a belated effort to help beleaguered agriculture and its dependent industries.
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My beleaguered constituents are desperate for some good news.
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We are told that we are a beleaguered city, and then we are told that essential men are being withdrawn from the land.
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I have not myself seen all the signs that are usually associated with a beleaguered city.
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Perhaps they have decided to pick on the beleaguered car workers as an example to everyone else.
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People living in some areas are feeling more beleaguered than they have felt for many years.
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They cause resentment to the beleaguered taxpayer and further deprive the most vulnerable in society.
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A beleaguered town does not withstand an enemy because nine of its ten gates are held; if one falls, all fall.
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Where is the action to protect our beleaguered environment?
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He is in a beleaguered, although vocal, minority in his party.
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I can think of nothing more harmful to our beleaguered agriculture industry at the present time than the continuation of that threat.
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There is simply no evidence of beleaguered grant-maintained schools.
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The beleaguered staff inside have only two copies of the income support adjudication guide.
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However, over the latter half of my career in this country the university sector felt beleaguered.
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They have welcomed the increased presence of our defence forces in their beleaguered city.
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We are in danger of going round in circles in our attempt to resolve, or at least minimise, the burdens of that proud but beleaguered country.
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During the siege many thousands of men were moved by sea either into or out of the beleaguered town, and in addition 7,000 prisoners of war.
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I believe that we are now all well aware of the need to take urgent action to try to assist the people in that beleaguered place.
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The courage of the men who brought what was needed to our beleaguered island and to the theatres of war is something which should be more frequently remembered.
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As my noble friend has just indicated, there is much that can be justified when our national citadel is beleaguered which cannot possibly be justified under normal conditions.
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I pay tribute to our beleaguered business community, which has worked tirelessly to regenerate the resort and, against all the odds, has been remarkably successful through private-public partnerships.
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However, that is no reason not to try to draw the line so that the democratic processes for the beleaguered people who live there are made easier.
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Many constituents who live in villages and who feel beleaguered because of the effect of those large lorries on the quality of their lives have written to me.
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Although we readily acknowledge the serious problems caused to farmers by foot and mouth, should not the same sympathy be shown to our beleaguered fishing industry?
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We shall be a beleaguered island as we were in the last war, and everything will depend on our being able to keep the sea lanes open to get food.
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He was told that it was our desire to keep in the free list foodstuffs destined for places other than beleaguered fortresses, and raw materials required for peaceful industries.
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The beleaguered president's appeals for support served only to reveal to the public at large the weakness of his regime.
The authors, beleaguered in their own country, appear to be equally wary of their prospective audience elsewhere.
The already beleaguered common worker was further entangled in the alien language of rules and regulations to fight for his rights.
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.
Besides, in the contemporary presidency, all presidents soon come to feel beleaguered.
The media, it felt, were over-dependent on" beleaguered government officials" for estimates of the size and severity of the riots.
The edgy, rebellious streak in his character could only be intensified by his somewhat beleaguered isolation in this respect.
At the same time, the public believed they were beleaguered by crime.
They have stressed the fragility and insignificance of the links between the three prophets and the beleaguered classis leaders.
Both countries experienced widespread social and political upheaval that found expression in forced migration and reinforced the idea of a beleaguered nation.
The recent debates on hunting show a much sharper conflict of opinion within the countryside movement and a more beleaguered response from pro-hunting interests.
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.
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