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BELEAGUER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
All over the country adult education is beleaguered and under siege: it is high time the cavalry came over the hill.
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The community itself must have felt beleaguered by the spectre of racism and seemingly ignored by those who should have been its protectors.
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They are forever beleaguered by demands, entreaties and supplications from all and sundry for infinite amounts of money to come from finite resources.
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There is a different atmosphere in many of the schools that were beleaguered before 1997 and a new sense of optimism.
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He is especially beleaguered at the moment and it is as if he can do nothing right.
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He is, of course, beleaguered by all the large authorities with overspill problems.
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As my noble friend has just indicated, there is much that can be justified when our national citadel is beleaguered which cannot possibly be justified under normal conditions.
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The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties.
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The city's once extensive library system has been beleaguered by financial difficulties and in 2010 it threatened to close, but was incorporated by the county system.
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The authors, beleaguered in their own country, appear to be equally wary of their prospective audience elsewhere.
Rulers, however beleaguered, still wanted to be treated as patrons, but although singers kept up the old obsequious language they felt freer in practice to do what suited them.
In the meantime, professionals, who were clearly feeling beleaguered and threatened, took concerted and strong action on certain aspects, especially as they related to practice guidelines.
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