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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The west coast line is still beset with problems over the cost and timescale of a planned modernisation. |
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Agencies are fighting to get boats in the harbour to take them to the marooned populations, but negotiations are also beset with difficulties. |
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Attempts to sell broadband services through the power network have been beset with problems. |
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Moreover, the ships transporting his cavalry were beset with contrary winds, and were never to make a landfall in Britain. |
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Britain's nationalised rail system was always beset with major difficulties. |
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It's cold and dark here in my little rowing boat and the waters are murky and beset with immense danger. |
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To find out the how and why we have to go further back, to the 1880s, when London's and Europe's intellectuals were beset with doubt and anomie. |
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Export figures for Indian handicrafts are rising but craftspersons are at the crossroads, beset with poverty and illness. |
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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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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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For millennia people have been adorning themselves with colorful accessories, made of precious metals, beset with jewels, and decorated with wonderful patterns. |
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The photographs reveal that there is space for laughter, for flippancy, for beauty and fun in a country beset with internecine and identity-based troubles. |
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Family comedies, by their very nature, usually come beset with some sort of unsubtle message, a fair amount of gloop, and one or two precocious kids. |
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Instead, the court dismissed the case as improvidently granted, probably because it was beset with procedural difficulties. |
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A stone arch beset with magical ornaments protects the elves who walk before all evil in the galleries of the elf palace. |
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Small arms easily find their way to those areas that are the most beset with conflict and most vulnerable to its impact. |
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It is true that many participating movements have been beset with the question: Is it worth it? |
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Plagued by unemployment, poverty and insecurity, the inhabitants are beset with increasing problems concerning social integration. |
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Almost every major building project is invariably beset with difficulty. |
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This is an era, moreover, that is beset with international problems, but also ripe with opportunities. |
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The good deal for Red Bull was that the other three top teams were all beset with difficulties. |
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We in Canada are beset with the problem of wide choice and whimsical buying, so that the competition of sellers is sharpened and intensified. |
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Alas for those Europeans who, beset with ethnomania, once sought in the ground beneath them evidence of direct ancestry with its original settlers. |
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But the effectiveness of schemes of this kind is unproven, and in today's world of unfettered trade flows, their implementation is often beset with legal difficulties. |
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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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The DPRK does not want the peninsula to be beset with tension, and is ready to better coordinate with China in a joint effort to push forward the six-party talks, he added. |
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In Belgium, this development is explained by the strain the economic situation is having on the installation professions beset with less business in the energy sector. |
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Today, however, the lives and attitudes of children are so beset with complexity that the efficacy of traditional methods of child-rearing has been thrown into serious doubt. |
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Steck's attempt has been beset with difficulties. |
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Jagdeo's administration was beset with numerous difficulties. |
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Maniema Province is beset with chronic food insecurity and high poverty levels, after a series of conflicts between 1996 and 2003 devastated the region. |
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Through these treaties, the leaders of the countries concerned have courageously brought stability and peace to borders that were previously beset with violence, and thus to their peoples. |
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More than typical adolescents, street kids are beset with oppressive problems, both those they bring from home and those they acquire on the street. |
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The Assembly deplores the fact that judicial corruption is deeply embedded in many Council of Europe member states which are also beset with serious problems of corruption in other public and private institutions. |
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The structures of certain agricultural holdings or processing and marketing enterprises located in these islands show serious shortcomings and are beset with specific difficulties. |
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In the 15th century, the Plantagenets were defeated in the Hundred Years' War and beset with social, political and economic problems. |
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The Quadrophenia tour started in Stoke on Trent in October and was immediately beset with problems. |
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This huge continent is still beset with a lack of democracy, war, human rights violations, drought, flooding and chronic poverty affecting large parts of its population. |
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The road to democracy, to respect for human rights, to a sound administrative and legal system, to the eradication of corruption, seems to be a long road beset with obstacles. |
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There is a pretence out there that Canadian society is beset with crime, that crime is escalating, and that violent crime is taking over our communities. |
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Its 16-year-old protagonist is beset with problems. |
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Management, however, was beset with bureaucratic malpractices. |
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But while many salmon runs are in good shape and showing signs of improvement, that is not the case for the commercial salmon industry which is beset with problems. |
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Consequently, her last world tour was beset with disruptions. |
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Restoration Home A 16th century Norfolk home is beset with damp, earthworm and deathwatch beetle, and features more architectural styles than you can shake a stick at. |
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The game is beset with myriad issues, apart from procuring good equipments the requirement is also for the lack of a professional ice hockey rink, and even basic coaching. |
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Mr Burchell, one of just 30 new generation denturists registered, said he was shocked by the high number of hits on the website and had been beset with e-mail questions. |
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Beset with financial difficulties, they aren't likely to spend as aggressively on research and facilities. |
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