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.
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.
At the same time, the public believed they were beleaguered by crime.
By the mid-1940s, therefore, the jobbers found themselves beleaguered on every front.
Trouble grew between the family whose house was beleaguered each night and the unwelcome street visitors.
The authors, beleaguered in their own country, appear to be equally wary of their prospective audience elsewhere.
The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties and in 2010 it threatened to close, but was incorporated by the county system.
The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties.
