| While that seems unlikely any time soon, such experiences of terror and embattlement have shaped the way Mr. Maliki governs. |
| His city has a sense of embattlement these days, reminiscent of London in the blitz. |
| The embattlement represents the Scarborough Bluffs and alludes to the City's function to protect and nurture its people. |
| I loved how he brought a feeling of optimism and growth to IT instead of the typical embattlement and resource constraints that unfortunately can take over a culture. |
| With the increasing polarization of American political discourse, there is a sense of embattlement on the right and of losing the culture war. |
| Answering it might give us a Howells for these nervous noughts: a poet of middle-class precariousness, of terrorist threats and immigrant renewals, of tarnished gilded ages and plutocratic triumph and liberal embattlement. |
