0 having a lot of problems or difficulties:
an embattled government
embattled teachers
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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.
