beleaguer

• “Either way, until all schools are created equal, such drastic and sweeping policies will only aggravate the inconsistencies and inequities that already beleaguer our school system.”

  The Huffington Post: Elizabeth Hampton: Eliminating January Regents Could Hurt Some Schools

• “Serious troubles continue to beleaguer the operators of the Japanese nuclear power plant in Fukushima prefecture that was crippled by an earthquake and tsunami.”

  Voice of America: Japan Promises to Shut Down Fukushima Reactors By Year's End

• “It avoids some of the diplomatic ploys of the big powers that beleaguer the international mechanisms.”

  Betwa Sharma: Not Enough Justice? Not Enough Courts?

• “At length, our leaders decided to beleaguer the city with siege machines, so that we might enter and worship the Savior at the Holy Sepulcher.”

  De Re Militari: The Society for Medieval Military History » The First Crusade: A short narrative from contemporary sources

• “A similar verse can be found in chapter 9, verse 5 -- which in its snipped, out of context version could read: "fight and slay the pagans wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait for them in every stratagem of war.”

  TEXAS FAITH: How can religious leaders keep Fort Hood incident from creating fear, tension and misunderstanding? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com

• “THAROOR: But Richard, where haven't we be generous -- look, after the Mumbai attacks, India deliberately chose not to adopt and beleaguer (ph) on military posturing.”

  CNN Transcript May 10, 2009

• “JAKARTA, Indonesia -- An Australian employee of international mining giant Freeport-McMoran Copper & Gold Inc. was shot dead while traveling by car near the company's massive Grasberg mine in Indonesia's remote Papua province before dawn on Saturday, showing how simmering separatist tensions continue to beleaguer President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's administration.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Australian Shot Dead at Papua Mine

• “Is that number for effect or does it reflect the wide net cast to beleaguer Bill?”

  Balkinization

• “WARREN: OK, we don't have to beleaguer on that one.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 17, 2008

• “Picts and Scots who beleaguer the early historical studies of most young”

  The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain

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