By logistically supporting a beleaguered population, political and military interests can be secured. |
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The results of the survey will make depressing reading for the company's beleaguered shareholders. |
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He is on the touchline as Guy's Hospital, the oldest club in the world, bash on in their beleaguered but indomitable way. |
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Yesterday, the Newcastle-based bank's beleaguered chief executive finally fell on his sword, tendering his resignation. |
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This sea change in music distribution is already upon us, and could provide the tonic for the revival of those beleaguered music companies. |
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The fateful day dawned, and still the city was beleaguered on every side, while within its walls the Aztecs were dying of famine and plague. |
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For every useless mouth in a beleaguered place adds to the difficulties of the defenders and facilitates the task of the besiegers. |
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In this sense the film represents directly the severe repression of its beleaguered central character. |
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Later presidents tried to revive it to conjure up domestic support for their beleaguered policies. |
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With the institution of the family so beleaguered, it would be highly desirable for the reigning House to set an example. |
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This editorial does little to support a beleaguered profession and could cause much more serious damage. |
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Even a nun from a local convent declined the opportunity to voice support for her beleaguered religious superior. |
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Look, I think doctors feel terribly beleaguered in general about medical negligence litigation. |
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Other gifts have been received from far and wide, with heartfelt messages of support for the beleaguered farming community. |
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The very time you should stick by your beleaguered spouse is when your loyalty can serve and support him. |
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May it also help our beleaguered security managers get some real support as the fall begins. |
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In that context, it's hard to see how a city takeover would benefit beleaguered students. |
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The first was to do some fact-finding, and the second was to lend some support to a beleaguered profession. |
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To be an encourager, is to be the Holy Spirit's chosen instrument to minister God's grace to his often beleaguered saints. |
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In the main, not all minorities are beleaguered and not all non-minorities are privileged. |
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The statement urged other Saudi clerics to step forward and support the beleaguered mujahideen. |
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Acomb had few problems against a beleaguered Huntington, who lost skipper Darren Willis to an ankle injury. |
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Aerial shots of the beleaguered fort, with Mexican troops climbing scaling ladders, lit by flashes of musketry, are striking. |
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But it will do nothing whatever to fast-track Scottish patients within our unreformed health service or to help our badly beleaguered schools. |
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But an unconvinced researcher in the beleaguered petroleum industry says the sales job is really a snow job. |
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It is almost a year since it was announced that the beleaguered vicar would resign as soon as he got a new job. |
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Libya has also supported British policy, cutting off oil supplies to the beleaguered regime. |
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Some form of non-injurious deterrence has been suggested by beleaguered fishermen, but this would be experimental at best. |
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Zimbabwe's beleaguered population could be forgiven for wondering how many more plagues are to be visited upon them. |
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The beleaguered bus drivers on this run often take alternate routes or abandon the clogged freeway for city streets. |
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A leading Scottish businesswoman has the onerous task of finding a buyer for the beleaguered Millennium Dome in London. |
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When I went to interview him three years ago, he was, in the eyes of the outside world, a remote and beleaguered figure. |
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Allen burst past Harrop as she turned into the home straight and broke the line seven seconds ahead of the beleaguered long-time leader. |
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More important, though, were his continued and inspired cogitations on the confederation's beleaguered finances. |
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The president confirmed he was imposing tariffs to protect beleaguered US producers against cheaper foreign imports. |
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The beleaguered and inefficient police service will not solve a minor crime much less for a major one. |
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Travelers, long beleaguered by pickpockets and con artists, are increasingly targeted by identity thieves. |
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She will pose as the concern troll for the beleaguered middle class while continuing to fill the investors' punch bowl with pricey booze. |
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The loosely confederated empire began to feel beleaguered from East and West, becoming aware of the growing pressure of Teutonism. |
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Also beleaguered are trucking companies, chemical concerns, and construction firms. |
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Then along came Livingstone, a man whose fondness for lizards no doubt helped him strike an instant rapport with the beleaguered first minister. |
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It was an invitation to his beleaguered opponent, but Hewitt might as well have been meaning the delivery of the championship. |
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The cream of northern stand-up is coming to York in a show of solidarity for beleaguered York City fans. |
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For a long time, the Bald Eagle Protection Act, designed also to protect the beleaguered golden eagle, was not strictly enforced. |
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What's ahead for the beleaguered agency and manned exploration of space in general? |
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Cynical council tax payers are already pillorying beleaguered jobsworths for wasting their cash. |
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They welcomed the journalists who arrived in their beleaguered country to tell their story. |
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He's one of those beleaguered rightists who band together for mutual aid and comfort in hostile, leftie Hollywood. |
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Those few of us who favored free markets and limited government were a beleaguered minority. |
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Far more than the story of one beleaguered farmer, it is a riveting dramatic allegory about human nature and the nature of our society. |
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In recent years, the beleaguered couple have been scarce on the social scene. |
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But as more and more rebel soldiers assault the extraction zone, the beleaguered marines prepare for a last stand. |
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Their real function is to provide feminine comfort and attentiveness to the beleaguered soldiers. |
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In an instant Kilrossanty were in full flow, commanding all over the field, and steadily putting the squeeze on a now increasingly beleaguered opposing defence. |
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Scotland's beleaguered industrial sector is still enduring a combination of business failures and cutbacks on capital expenditure, according to new figures due out tomorrow. |
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That was issued jointly by Mr Morley and the cathedral Dean and Chapter, the body which, headed by the beleaguered dean, runs the minster and employs the organist. |
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Hollywood is showcasing bedrock values and giving hope to beleaguered conservatives. |
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The news meant that the beleaguered sport would go at least 34 years without a Triple Crown winner. |
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As long as populations are menaced by banditry, civil war, guerrilla campaigns, and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be secure. |
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Interviews with old-timers and vintage footage blend well with gorgeous snowy scenery and soft Gaelic music to paint a flattering picture of this latterly beleaguered resort. |
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As long as populations are menaced by banditism, civil war, guerrilla campaigns and counter-insurgency by beleaguered governments, they cannot be safe and secure. |
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More trouble in store for Andrew Neil at the sadly beleaguered Scotsman. |
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Did MacMahon even try to round up support for his beleaguered master? |
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It secured its director a two-picture deal with Warner Brothers and a position at the helm of the next instalment of the beleaguered Batman franchise. |
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Simon Cowell was considering the singer as a judge on his beleaguered talent show, The x-factor. |
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A group of tweenie girls set about rescuing a beleaguered tree living next to a landfill in this spirited play about the dangers of corporate excess and waste. |
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It is no accident that the play is set in the eighties, when the arguments between beleaguered humanism and pragmatic functionalism were at the very height. |
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Life magazine ran a photo of Lamarr with a swarm of reporters, looking beleaguered and delicate in white gloves and a pillbox hat. |
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Woodrow Wilson figures prominently in The accursed as the beleaguered president of Princeton. |
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Outgunned and beleaguered, he says, Iraqi army units in Anbar are beginning to collapse. |
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Having finally re-joined the main body of the Ukrainian forces, the beleaguered defenders of Sector D were evacuated. |
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Taken together, it gives them a huge tactical advantage over the beleaguered Ukrainian armed forces. |
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And here is where the beleaguered administration may catch a break from this hostile court. |
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He is beleaguered, too, by the memories of his dead wife and his victims. |
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British troops were helping beleaguered United Nations peacekeepers. |
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Not only will he not go, but any attempt to dislodge him would certainly cause trouble to erupt in that beleaguered state again. |
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The early part of the 1990s, when monarchism dared not speak its name and supporters of the Crown felt as though they were a beleaguered minority, seems like a bygone age. |
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The beleaguered authority is to discuss the way forward in ridding the city of unwanted homes, which are magnets to vandals, at a meeting next Monday. |
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At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz. |
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One of the ugliest aspects of the risk aversion culture is the way we name and blame the beleaguered professionals who are at the sharp end of our failed policies. |
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On 26 May, it was decided to evacuate as many troops from Dunkirk so operations were directed to support the beleaguered BEF forces around the town. |
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The beleaguered House speaker could use a refresher course in constitutional prerogatives. |
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I had just started a low-level job at the Village Voice, imagining it would be, even in this beleaguered climate, a bastion of what was left of the Left. |
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Italy is eyeing up ways to stimulate its beleaguered economy and one of the avenues for reinvigoration is through architecture and design. |
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Age 20 he won the European bantamweight title, comprehensively beating the beleaguered Vincenzo Belcastro over twelve rounds. |
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Later in the year, she was sent to Java to get supplies for the beleaguered Dutch fortress on Ternate. |
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Raised in a one-bedroom Bronx apartment, she was beloved by her housepainter father, Louis, and beleaguered by her strict mother, Bella. |
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Meanwhile, the receivers in control of Blues' beleaguered parent company have appointed Goldin Financial as their financial advisors. |
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For the beleaguered finance minister, George's stand may appear like the unkindest cut since George has been acting as his right hand man. |
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The beleaguered pair are on a nightmare rollercoaster ride trying to escape from an armed swat team and killer bees. |
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Now, strongly drawn by ambition, inspired by fellow poets such as Leigh Hunt and Lord Byron, and beleaguered by family financial crises, he suffered periods of depression. |
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Bladder calculi have beleaguered man for thousands of years, as documented by the ancient Greeks and discovered by an archeologist in a 7000-year-old Egyptian skeleton. |
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After being beleaguered on the causeway leading out of the city, the surviving Spanish forces arrived at the plain of Otumba, where they encountered a vast Aztec army. |
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Alva, Clackmannanshire IN the wake of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the beleaguered nation now face the threat of mass radiation poisoning. |
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Welsh legend relates that before launching his usurpation, Maximus made preparations for an altered governmental and defence framework for the beleaguered provinces. |
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This limerick is uttered by Jethro Furber of Omensetter's Luck, one of William Gass's beleaguered but irrepressible and loquacious, even logorrheic narrators. |
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Phase four pursues the defeat of Biafra, which parallels the disarray of the ranks of elders in Umungodo, and the beleaguered efforts to rebuild from the rubble. |
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