Voorbeelden van embattled

• The school cases also started a process which gave embattled minority groups a new and promising defensive strategy.

• Faced with soil degradation, water pollution and biodiversity loss, the survey points to biotechnology as the embattled savior.

• The tensions inherent in the reformers' relations with the court were intensified by feelings of insecurity as an embattled minority within the nation.

• In these snapshots, modernity is not a spectacle to be consumed in detachment but an embattled, painfully negotiated process.

• Towering rooftop studios throwing up an embattled skyline.

• Despite the best efforts of the embattled archbishop, the doctrine it contained was - with one important exception - unremittingly conservative.

• Historians writing with one eye on an embattled view of the political situation might have had their reasons for wishing to share in the fabrication.

• Thereby the interpretation offered powerful justification for the study of women when the field was embattled.