How To Use Beset In A Sentence
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Yet his paranoid fear of plots and conspiracies beset him to the end of his life.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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An affectionate arm around the shoulders, a warm and reassuring hug, a gentle touch upon the arm, even just an understanding glance, are enough to drive away the blues and kindle hope in a heart beset with workaday cares.
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It was a metaphor that predicted the nature of the many problems that have beset excessively large inner urban secondary schools in the intervening years.
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Might it not be some terrible avenger, out of the mystery beyond life, placed to beset him and finish him finally on this road that he was convinced was surely the death-road?
CHAPTER XXXVI
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It attracts men beset by alcohol, drug and gambling woes along, increasingly, with those tormented by serious mental health issues.
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In a sport beset by serious doping problems, he was always regarded as a torch-bearer.
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A third probeset selected by limma was rejected outright by Messina (Figure 3b, panel u).
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She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.
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For 1916 was the year in which many of the problems that beset us today began to emerge.
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We were beset by swarms of agitated wasps.
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For 1916 was the year in which many of the problems that beset us today began to emerge.
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Only a costly silver ring beset with rubies that glittered on one finger denoted his status as being above that of ordinary men.
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But so far it has been beset by problems and it needs to sort them out fast.
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Again this is a play about military commanders and the troubles that beset them but it also, famously, approaches the theme of civil unrest.
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Track and field athletics is beset by problems, and just about all of them are drugs.
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There is simple rural life; old men who comb their thinning hair and live with an upright pride despite being beset by trials and religion.
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This may well be a kind of besetting sin -- a sin that has plagued him since his youth and one that has never lessened its pull on him.
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His party is also being beset by fundraising scandals at just the moment when it needs public trust.
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In a report that for audacity borders on the incredible, the Premiership damned the FA for the ills that are now besetting the game.
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Like an elephant beset by bees, or the straw that broke the camel's back, this week's swarm of small irritating things could madden even tolerant Taurans.
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-- This morning I felt great power in prayer, and an ardent desire for full deliverance from every besetment.
Religion in Earnest A Memorial of Mrs. Mary Lyth, of York
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Unfortunately, Toni reflected, even war could not eliminate the emotional complications which beset man's life.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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The ship was beset for nine months during which time they disproved the existence of South Greenland which had been shown on maps since 1823.
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Lights, noises, and singing at night, clearly discerned from the castle, caused much terror to Lady Edgeworth, though her descendants affirm that they were fairies of the same genus as those who beset Sir John Falstaff at Hearne's oak, and intended to frighten her into leaving the place.
A Book of Golden Deeds
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Many analysts say the reform package is essential to reinvigorating Germany's flagging economy, beset by slow growth and high unemployment.
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He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
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To facilitate comparison between Messina and limma results, the rank of Messina's reported probeset classifier margin (a measure of the robustness of the trained classifier) was compared to the log To validate Messina's results, we measured expression of S100A2 protein by immunohistochemistry upon a separate patient cohort from that used in the microarray data
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The inquiry has since been beset by problems.
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The Complaints Department was beset by angry customers.
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The tendency to start forming another church ‘is one of the primary sins that besets radical Christian neophytes.’
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She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.
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Yet the exhibition overall is beset by an archival feeling, which is abetted by the period posters and reliquary vitrines housing pamphlets and first editions.
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They add to research that shows how our lives are beset by contamination with potentially lethal bacteria.
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She had seen the Grand Conflux, beset by a dark horde of warriors, greater in strength and number than any army that had been raised by mortal hands.
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Besides they were beset by clouds of voracious magpies, who were bent on devouring them alive.
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Southern has been beset by problems caused by industrial action and poor service.
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The zebra was beset by leopards
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unlearned and commonsensical countryfolk were capable of solving problems that beset the more sophisticated
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Sufferers are beset by intrusive bad thoughts.
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Beset by such forces, small bones hardly stand a chance, which explains why paleontologists are so enthusiastic about finding a pint-sized predator in 75-million-year-old Canadian rock.
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besetment," for, in fact, it was now nothing more.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
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Most important, China is beset by significant asset - price inflation that borders on an asset - price bubble.
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Often beset by regret and remorse they seek, but do not always find, redemption in various forms.
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The country is beset by a cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 2,100 lives.
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Unlike the IMF's traditional lending facilities, employed after a crisis besets a country, the precautionary credit line is designed to prevent crises.
IMF Makes Credit Line Available to Macedonia
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He cast himself as the hero, at 22 years old trying to put his troubled past behind him and go straight, but beset with biblical problems and temptations at every step.
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Nevertheless, since the assistance comes after the election, independents are still beset by financial difficulties.
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Riddled with a thousand gaping wounds , this reactionary clique is now beset with difficulties and contradictions both in internal and external affairs.
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It was a fragile new nation beset by political infighting and civil war involving ethnic minorities and communists backed by China.
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The country is beset by severe economic problems.
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The fifth submarine, beset by a broken gyrocompass, did not set out until 05.30 and would spend most of the day travelling in circles.
Sealing Their Fate
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Next was led the King's horse for that day, together with his son's; the King's saddle and furniture most richly beset with stones of great price and beauty.
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There is nothing in the Constitution, or in the economic expertise of those drafting it, to guide us through a post-industrial global financial crisis of the kind which now besets us.
David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness
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That's the only sign of progress in the protracted battle against the besetting gridlock that bedevils our bodies, minds, souls, and psyches day-in and day-out.
John B. Townsend II: Gridlocked: Staring at Brake Lights and Holding First Place
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The Antarctic winter closed in before Deutschland could escape to lower latitudes and the ship was beset and drifted for nine months.
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It is beset by contradictions in the statements of Ministers.
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On the other side, but equally healthful, may be put the fact that the style and structure of the originals and earlier versions, and especially that verse division which has been now so unwisely abandoned, served as safeguards against the besetting sin of all prose writers of their time, the habit of indulging in long wandering sentences, in paragraphs destitute of proportion and of grace, destitute even of ordinary manageableness and shape.
A History of Elizabethan Literature
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Like the catalogue of pastoral images that Keats includes in his famous ode, a city building awash in rain has become a perfect place for anyone beset by a melancholy fit to glut her sorrow.
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In a culture beset by affluenza or luxury fever, many hard-working people who are employed full time nonetheless don't earn enough to pay the security deposit necessary to rent an apartment.
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The vast majority of them are beset with multiple problems: Most lack job skills and are chronically unemployed or at best underemployed.
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Most important, China is beset by significant asset - price inflation that borders on an asset - price bubble.
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Casting problems began to beset the House.
A TALE OF FOUR HOUSES: Opera at Covent Garden, La Scala, Vienna and the Met since 1945
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By 1977 the country was beset by serious drought - a clear sign of cooling.
Secrets of the Soil
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The business has been beset with financial problems.
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She remains an orphan girl, and, as such, she partakes of the tradition of the orphan girl in the movies: outcast, woebegone, beset on all sides, but plucky and triumphant in the end.
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She was immediately beset on all sides as her own group and Liza's group mobbed her.
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Nordau believed that “degeneration,” a nervous disorder that beset the modern age, especially enfeebled Jews.
Bloodlust
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The Vermont Yankee, Vermont's aging nuclear reactor that sits roughly where the borders of Vermont, New Hampshire and Massachusetts meet, is beset with problems -- including multiple leaks of radioactivity.
John Odum: For Good or Ill, Vermont's Election Will Impact Millions of Other New Englanders
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The notion often prevails that if there be in the heart this divine witness of God's Spirit, it must needs be perfect, clearly indicating its origin by an exemption from all that besets ordinary human feelings, that it must be a strong, uniform, never flickering, never darkening, and perpetual light, a kind of vestal fire burning always on the altar of the heart!
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
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Fenway Sports Group has anointed Anfield's King, the one man capable of uniting a club beset by poisonous division and politicking in recent years and someone who yearned to retake his post within weeks of leaving it in 1991.
How Kenny Dalglish lifted the Liverpool mood and found the aura | Andy Hunter
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But the many other problems that beset Florida on Election Day are far more deserving of a congressional investigation.
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No doubt the result, he thought, of selfishness, his other besetting sin.
BARN BLIND
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They show how the mereological fallacy besets thinking in such different domains as perception, binding, memory, imagery, emotion, and volition.
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One becomes convinced that he never suffered any morbid, soul-shaking experience such as besetting religious doubt brings with it, or the pangs of despised love; that on the contrary he moved among men and women with a serene and godlike tread, neither self-indulgent nor ascetic, with mind and senses ever alert to every form of beauty.
Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works
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Beset by such forces, small bones hardly stand a chance, which explains why paleontologists are so enthusiastic about finding a pint-sized predator in 75-million-year-old Canadian rock.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Then one, two, three bronze figures dash down a steep ravine below the Convent walls, and plunge into the river – a shrill chorus of voices, growing momentarily more audible, is borne upon the wind – and in a few minutes the boat is beset by a shoal of mendicant monks vociferating with all their might Ana Christian ya Hawadji!
A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
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It is a strong enclosure, an invincible ring, a grand besetment within which we move in restful security.
The Silver Lining: Messages of Hope and Cheer
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In the meantime the company is beset by protests over fracking.
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In short, the agenda is all encompassing and all stakeholders should support the process to move out of the current problems besetting the country.
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When strict physicalist positions were beset by objections from the multiple realisability of mental predicates,
Gilbert Ryle
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The bearers, the priests, and the ailing ones themselves had just intonated a canticle, the song of Bernadette, and all rolled along amid the besetting "Aves," so that the little carts, the litters, and the pedestrians descended the sloping road like a swollen and overflowing torrent of roaring water.
The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 2
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And if so be that he be a wedded man, that his wife shall have the degree, and a coronal of gold beset with stones of virtue to the value of a thousand pound, and a white gerfalcon.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Genes (by probeset) were ranked first by degree of upfold regulation with 5-aza / TSA treatment and second by COPA upregulation at the 90 th percentile.
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It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.
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Kollapen said the report describes a community "beset" by problems:
ANC Daily News Briefing
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As in the case of every well-defined philosophy, this motive is always attended by a "besetting" problem.
The Approach to Philosophy
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But the project is beset from the start by a fiendish enemy, and also that weird phantom of outer space, Zero Gravity.
Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space » Fanboy.com
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Cemeteries are shrouded in mist and beset by locusts.
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Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin - he drank too much.
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Partnered by Nick Patrick the pair were beset by mechanical gremlins in 2004 after their roll on the Astra Stages.
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A man needs a stout heart, a clear head, and a sure hand, to hold his own in a welter of interests and antagonisms such as beset me.
The Black Colonel
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These two last examples epitomize the murkiness besetting a serious examination of the occupation of early modem peoples and the identities they derived from their work.
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The hanging fruit of a dwarf five-in-one pear tree was damaged by birds, after which the damaged fruit was beset by wasps, yellow jackets, flies and gnats.
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Perhaps an inner tension besets the motto; perhaps it should read not “Fraternity or Death” but “Fraternity and Death.”
Bloodlust
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But the girl appears to be beset by powerful ambivalent feelings as she looks at the wolf resting beside her.
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As it takes me a week to read your average manuscript, and up to two weeks to read your average 600-page fantasy tome? and this when Iâ⠂ ¬â „ ¢m not beset by administrative busywork? the casualty is my ability to read outside my own submission pil
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Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
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Sufferers are beset by intrusive bad thoughts.
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In the middle of February the ship was beset and never got free again.
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The country is beset by a cholera epidemic that has claimed more than 2,100 lives.
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The American "captive" is beset in his struggle by "interpretations, admonitions, forewarnings and descriptions of himself by the self-appointed prophets, priests, judges and prefabricators of his travail," says Martin.
Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture
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The path which is safe and harmless for the dull and inexcitable -- the mere animals of the human race -- is beset with dangers for the ardent, the enthusiastic, the intellectual.
The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends
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It is a country beset by poverty, squalor, inequality and violence.
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The besetting sin of 18th-century urban Britain was drunkenness.
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A sprinkling of volcanic rock in the Pacific, they are 600 miles east of their nearest land mass, and beset on all sides by seven mighty ocean currents.
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But there's an I-told-you-so attitude in the West Wing — a rare feel-good moment in a second term beset by a succession of crises.
White House Revels In War-Funding Vote
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On the upper part of the chariot lay an effigy, representing his person in royal robes, with an imperial crown of gold, beset with jewels of an inestimable value on its head, with a sceptre in the right hand, and a globe in the left.
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He personally remained untainted by the multiple scandals that beset his party.
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Michael Wood's essay, clearly a labor of love, discusses Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres, as well as its ambitious translation, concentrating on the author's Joycean ‘besetting virtue,’ paronomasia.
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In the heart of a stony country beset with high fences and rough copple stones, stands the little town of ~Gort~, The military stationed there now add to its importance.
The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway
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He wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.
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An uneasiness, not such as besets one on the eve of some event, but such as one feels on remembering some good that one has lost forever, filled Janina's heart.
Komediantka. English
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Unlike June's Royal Ascot meeting which was often beset by showery weather, it was a true summer's day as the sun beat down with not a raindrop in sight.
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He made every effort to shake off this new besetment, this fresh assault upon the tranquility he had attained.
The Hidden Places
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The Houston police force was beset by charges of racism and brutality.
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Even conventional farmers in California, beset by the heat wave there, are learning how fragile those presumptions can be, as they complain of wine grapes shriveled into raisins.
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It has shown its capacity to plan ahead and be ever ready for any calamity or disaster that may beset the country.
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A wedding that was widely billed as beset by disasters and disapproval became a day of warm smiles, laughter and even the odd decent joke.
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Presently, however, his inner anxieties grew upon him so much that his book fell on his knee, and he lost himself in a multitude of small scruples and torments, such as beset all persons who live alone.
Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I
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It has been beset by scandal, including allegations that it sent bullying legal letters from fake law firms to clients.
The Sun
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He wrote to a friend, the author of "Edge Hill," in Richmond, that he had quite overcome "the seductive and dangerous besetment" by which he had so often been prostrated, and to another friend that, incredible as it might seem, he had become a "model of temperance," and of "other virtues," which it had sometimes been difficult for him to practice.
International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850
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The Nordstream project had been beset with its own issues, most pressing of which is that fact that the Baltic Sea has been the site of many military exercises over the years and the chance of hitting a live bomb left over from those exercises is very real.
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
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Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
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The enemy beset the town with a strong army.
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As a result of our tumultuousness, there abides in the American psyche an idea so powerful it ennobles us, and lifts us high above the problems which beset us.
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A portcullis is a defensive latticed iron grating hung over the entrance to a fortified castle, the perfect metaphor for News International, which perpetually sees itself as beset by enemies.
The Guardian World News
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Some problems that beset the international coalition could have been better foreseen.
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Another handicap was the financial disarray that began to beset Germany.
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England, his own poignant sense of possession in her and by her, his own intolerable aching at the heart at his envisagement of her enormously beset.
If Winter Comes
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Bled by war and terrorism, beset by a lingering financial crisis and stubbornly high unemployment, facing stagnant wages and growing inequality, saddled with obsolete infrastructure and massive public debt, the United States today seems far removed from the confident "hyperpower" of a decade ago.
Will Marshall: To Fix Our Country, We Need to Fix Our Politics First
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The President usually displays a good deal more sense than the newshawks by whom he is beset.
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It is a grim pilgrimage, a pilgrimage under duress, during which he is beset by threatening forces which he cannot fathom and yet needs to comprehend if he is to survive.
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He puts his finger on the key problems besetting the modern nation-state, analyzes them with admirable clarity and then uses such analysis to reach conclusions that are the diametric opposite of what they should be.
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Because both groups include organisms that have both animal-like and plant-like characteristics, the classification and phylogentic relationships within the groups are beset with complexities.
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He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities.
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In the last year, Mr. Gates has partially retired from Microsoft, and the Redmond-based software giant is beset at all sides by credible rivals like Google, Apple and I.B.M. Tonight, Steve Ballmer, Mr. Gates's successor, takes the stage, and the most urgent questions around this speech seem to involve how much he will sweat (he is a famous perspirer).
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He wore a golden mitre beset with precious stones, and bore in his left hand a golden crosier, and in his right a pair of goldsmith's tongs.
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Attempts to rebuild the curriculum so as more nearly to meet the socioeconomic needs of the region are beset with cultural obstacles.
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The ship became beset in the ice of the Weddell Sea on 18 January 1915 and was crushed and sank on 21 November.
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It has been beset by scandal, including allegations that it sent bullying legal letters from fake law firms to clients.
The Sun
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Any rough-hewn edges that may have beset a younger Daniel Johns have clearly been filed away, softening the blow.
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Everyone hopes that the next president will be able to gradually resolve the problems besetting our country.
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She stresses her position as a widow-not only a woman beset by financial difficulties but a woman with no husband to guide her and supervise the family's political role.
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The deal has been beset by problems with bureaucracy.
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Many believe that the recent surge of miracles reported worldwide herald the coming of a great spiritual teacher called Maitreya who will teach us the art of living and help us solve the problems that beset mankind.
Reviewing The New Spain
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One of the large problems that besets the information security practice is an understandable reticence among the victims of cyberattacks to come forward and share the experience with the rest of us.
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But the operation was beset with financial problems from the outset and twice filed for bankruptcy.
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It has been beset by scandals for many years over the quality of care on offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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The Anglo-Dutch oil major's operations onshore Nigeria have long been beset by sabotage and th eft and the company has faced decades of criticism from environmental and human-rights groups concerned about the impact its activities have had on the local ecosystem.
Shell Sells Oil Stakes in Nigeria
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It has been beset by scandals for many years over the quality of care on offer.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prayer, my sin-beset brethren, standfast prayer, is the otherwise unidentified haemony whose best habitat was the Garden of Gethsemane; and with that holy root in your heart and in your mouth, there is "no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against
Bunyan Characters (2nd Series)
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In the mean time the wind had been driving the ice so fast off the land as to form for us a clear communication with the open water before seen to the eastward; and thus we were at length liberated from our confinement, after a close and tedious "besetment" of twenty-four days.
Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 2
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Hardened and embittered by the selfish treasons that had beset his early boyhood, and which had forced him into manhood before his time, he came to England as one called thither by the late king's designation, and, therefore, the lawful heir.
Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II
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Your editorials are thought-provoking in addressing the myriad problems besetting our profession today.
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Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
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And when she opened it, she found garments beset with gold and with jewels, more splendid than those of any king's daughter.
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The deal has been beset by problems with bureaucracy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet his paranoid fear of plots and conspiracies beset him to the end of his life.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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The enemy beset the town with a strong army.
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We may conjecture that in both places the notion of invulnerability is suggested by the position of the plant, which, occupying a place of comparative security above the ground, appears to promise to its fortunate possessor a similar security from some of the ills that beset the life of man on earth.
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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She was beset by the realization that she desired nothing more than to go to the Hall as Anne Mowbray's companion.
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Our troops was beset by enemy fire.
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There is also a copartnership typal of zippered beset that has a disconformity of unworthyer sub-crates, one of which is the perfect spread to entrust my Moleskine Memo fob (I used to attend to orders my PDA in there).
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His party is also being beset by fundraising scandals at just the moment when it needs public trust.
Times, Sunday Times
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The case has been beset by the kinds of official miscues typical in rape cases here.
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Like many brilliant artists he seems beset by anxiety, self-doubt and an embarrassingly thin skin.
Times, Sunday Times
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Continental nations, beset by deep structural problems arising out of their overgenerous welfare states, look enviously at Britain's relatively high economic growth, low unemployment, and rising standard of living.
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He wanted to be a monk, not a busy town parson continually beset by unreasonable people.
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An old woman drives past a rusty tractor beset by burs and weeds.
Vermont
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These were troubled times for Mozart: his father and four children all died, Constanze was very ill and financial problems beset him as the economy took a downturn and musicians found themselves unemployed.
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Nor is the Thames/BBC project likely to be beset by the teething troubles which plagued the pioneer satellite broadcasters.
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Perhaps the most alarming decay has beset the capitals, blocks of marble carved into swirling patterns of acanthus leaves.
U-Va. Rotunda waits in line for repairs
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Beset by all these threatening elements, the police become a solidary group.
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For years residential conveyancing has been beset by an arcane and muddy bureaucracy that drives purchasers and their lawyers to the brink of despair.
Times, Sunday Times
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The poor southern state, often beset by its own natural disasters, had beds, meals and an emergency plan that helped it absorb a 2.5 percent jump in its population.
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In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand.
Jacques Bonneval
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It is a neighborhood beset by all the usual inner-city problems.
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In fact, these "unstudied" overcomers would appear to be the most successful ex-homosexuals because they've moved on with their lives - as "reborn" Christians move on after overcoming any besetting sin.
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Yet his paranoid fear of plots and conspiracies beset him to the end of his life.
The Collins History of the World in the 20th Century
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But the Reverend Hanbury was beset by aggressive and cold-hearted neighbors, among them two strange old "gentlewomen," Mistress Pickering and Mistress Byrd, who malevolently ordered their cattle to be turned loose into his first plantation of twenty thousand young and thrifty trees.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
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Empire he was carried from Misenum to Rome in the midst of a throng of people, the ways beset with altars, and beasts for sacrifice, and burning torches; and of Caracalla, that was received into
Leviathan
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The interest and respectability of this new start in life, made a little fresh opposition to the inroads of her besetting sin; so that now she did not consume as much whisky in three days as she did in one when she had her houff on the shore.
Sir Gibbie
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The real problem besetting racing will not rear its head in the next few weeks, or even months.
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The besetting sin of all women is vanity; _vanity is a woman's consciousness of her power over men. _
Possessed
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But the operation was beset with financial problems from the outset and twice filed for bankruptcy.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dolements could beset anyone, but especially a fiddlefaced glumpish fellow whose grum and glum afflicted all of his friends and neighbors with a severe outbreak of the humpy-grumpies.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1
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The project was beset with difficulties.
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Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty.
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For many of the NO folks, opposition is so engrained as to be a matter of almost religious ferocity such as besets the minority Party of NO that holds our State Legislature hostage when it comes to financial matters.
HALFWAY TO CONCORD
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The besetting sin of this theory is that it often tends to confuse cause with effect.
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Problems have beset the house of Versace since its founder was murdered seven years ago.
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Unfortunately, Toni reflected, even war could not eliminate the emotional complications which beset man's life.
IN LOVE AND WAR
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Five new French signings have bolstered a squad that was beset by difficulty.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was beset by problems, and many outlets were left with empty shelves.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country has been beset by economic woes for the past decade.
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In the meantime the company is beset by protests over fracking.
Times, Sunday Times
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But then, what would you expect when New Jerusalem is beset by a bunch of anthropophagi?
Archive 2010-01-24
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Mr. Obama's laundry-list of initiatives—steep tax increases on wealthier Americans, fresh investigations into the mortgage crisis and support for domestic manufacturing—was aimed at buttressing a re-election message that posits him as defender of Americans beset by inequality in the tax code and broader economy.
Obama Makes Populist Pitch
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The second section describes the problems that beset the viceregency before the war erupted.
San Miguel and the War of Independence by Mamie Spiegel
