Exempel på beleaguered

• 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.

• We are in a way a beleaguered garrison.

• Imports will have to be increased, putting a greater pressure on the already beleaguered pound.

• 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.

• Both sides see their own community as beleaguered or besieged.

• Three-fifths of its capital is tied up in the beleaguered special steels sector.

• Many policemen and women feel beleaguered and misunderstood.

• He has this safety net where he can come in with all the power of the state against somebody who is being beleaguered.

• They have been wrong about the impact of the recession—particularly on our beleaguered manufacturing industry.

• 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.

• Motorists, or those who choose to speak for them, frequently claim to be a beleaguered minority, unjustly restrained by speed limits and parking restrictions.

• The old function of the last defender of a beleaguered breach in a defensive wall is noble and picturesque, but it implies defeat.

• 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.