How to Use "embattled" with Example Sentences
- 1. Stock prices jumped : those of embattled french banks soared by almost 20 % in just two days .
- 2. The site looks scruffier than it did four years ago , when this correspondent last visited it . Litter drifts around empty pitches , wasps hover near overflowing bins and dogs bark outside each embattled caravan .
- 3. Such violence can only mean that yemen 's embattled president , ali abdullah saleh , is losing his already long-tenuous grip on power as more people throughout the country join the calls for his ouster .
- 4. A visit to the embattled city of ajdabiya finds the anti-qaddafi resistance slightly less ragtag than before , but still not quite professional .
- 5. The embattled government in bahrain invited 2000 troops from saudi arabia and the united arab emirates on to its soil to help its security forces curb a growing protest movement .