(v. t.) To surround with an army so as to preclude escape; to besiege; to blockade.
Example Sentences:
(1) United had been spared and, in the next attack, Jesse Lingard turned Michael Carrick’s crossfield pass across the penalty area for Rooney, so beleaguered recently, to head in the team’s first goal for six hours and 44 minutes of play.
(2) Iraq's beleaguered prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, no longer has the authority to unite the country's disparate sects.
(3) The dramatic rise of Islamic State (Isis) in Syria and Iraq is helping to tear apart the Pakistani Taliban, the beleaguered militant group beset by infighting and splits.
(4) And the contrast between the brave but beleaguered Yakubu and Tema staff doctor Patricia Asamoah could not be more marked.
(5) The beleaguered Afghan army and police were still waiting late on Tuesday for reinforcements promised by the government in Kabul.
(6) Gordon Brown's supporters today warned would-be rebels that the Labour party was in no mood for a leadership challenge, as they sought to rally around the beleaguered prime minister.
(7) Sakuma's report will come as another blow to Japan's beleaguered whaling industry.
(8) Russia’s economic difficulties intensified on Friday as the beleaguered rouble crashed during morning trading, stoking fears that the country was on the verge of a full-blown currency crisis reminiscent of the 1990s.
(9) This paper aims at demonstrating a currently beleaguered assumption: the central importance, the continuing vitality, and the appropriate complexity of Freud's theory of the drives and of his idea of the primacy of the body ego.
(10) The former Arsenal player has appeared an increasingly beleaguered figure and was known to have felt let down by Villa’s failure to sign any players during January’s transfer window , when the team were screaming out for fresh faces.
(11) While Labour fights to keep its coalition of BME voters and left-leaning liberals intact, the Conservatives’ priority appears to be to hold on to the seats they won in 2010 and maybe take one seat from Labour and a couple from the beleaguered Liberal Democrats in south-west London.
(12) The beleaguered security forces he contends were sidelined in favour of militias after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 are now, he says, starting to "slowly return to life".
(13) They are China's most beleaguered ethnic group – feared, misunderstood and economically marginalised.
(14) Some politicians have already warned that the ECB’s move, which cheered beleaguered southern European governments with large debts and high unemployment, will increase costs for German holidaymakers heading for popular destinations in the Caribbean and far east.
(15) Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based.
(16) More specifically, the violence is very bad news for Egypt's beleaguered Coptic minority – the ancient Christian community that makes up between 10 and 15% of a population of 82 million, and is by far the largest Christian community in the region.
(17) The ratings agency Standard & Poor's responded to the rescue announcement by cutting Bear Stearns's credit rating to BBB - the second-lowest investment grade - putting more pressure on its beleaguered stock.
(18) The government has given a beleaguered rail company permission to introduce an emergency timetable allowing it to cancel another 350 trains a day, it has been claimed.
(19) So what can beleaguered British workers do to close the rapidly expanding gap between their earnings and the overall cost of living?
(20) Mélenchon’s popularity is running level with the beleaguered, scandal-hit Fillon in some polls, higher in others.
Belie
Definition:
(n.) To show to be false; to convict of, or charge with, falsehood.
(n.) To give a false representation or account of.
(n.) To tell lie about; to calumniate; to slander.
(n.) To mimic; to counterfeit.
(n.) To fill with lies.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alex Neil’s side belied their newly promoted status with a calm, poised assurance and incision, epitomised by Robbie Brady and the excellent Nathan Redmond.
(2) The results returned on Saturday night belie the weeks of derailed campaigning and defensive strategy from the National party.
(3) I’ll do some comedy about my dog.’” This complacent image is belied by the level of detail in the new show, and in her work as one half (with Ellie White) of the Sexy American Girls Family, who appeared in Edinburgh in the Invisible Dot Circus .
(4) But the simplicity of the ruleset belies the astonishing complexity that the game can demonstrate.
(5) Lu, who declined to give her full name for fear of reprisals, has a short bob haircut, a round face and soft, lilting voice that belies an undercurrent of outrage.
(6) They say you cannot please everyone, but referee Michael Oliver succeeded in pleasing neither Roberto Martínez nor Garry Monk in this feisty encounter which belied the mid-table comfort Everton and Swansea currently enjoy.
(7) There was a sharpness about them that belied their recent poor run on their travels, with defeats at both Bournemouth and Watford preceding this.
(8) Their performances at the Games belie this deep-rooted problem: 15 of India's 38 gold medals were won by women, including that of the discus thrower Krishna Poonia, who achieved the country's first Commonwealth athletics gold for 52 years.
(9) (To argue that the presence of sloppy, boiling-hot calzones belies their sandwich nature is a debate on elaboration, not intention, like saying that a leaky building proves that buildings are not a form of shelter.)
(10) The Queen's perma-grimace belied her true feelings.
(11) Cheney has been a creature of Washington since 1969, a 44-year streak whose very length belies any inclination toward insurrection, much less any sort of change.
(12) The argument that this was a vote about “economic” issues – since the hated European migrants were not brown or black – is belied by the deliberate commingling of every type of foreigner.
(13) With access to and from the building very tightly controlled, and the street outside the building closed to all traffic, the muted atmosphere belied the occasion.
(14) Rashard Bradshaw is Cakes Da Killa , the puppy-faced new kid on the block whose sound is decidedly more straight-up hip-hop than many of his peers, and his humble disposition belies his solid flow.
(15) Everything about the project belied this pessimism.
(16) SPLI and BELI levels, acetylcholinesterase activity, and total protein content were determined by radioimmunoassay, a colorimetric method, and by the method of Lowry et al.
(17) But the latest hair-brained pre-election housing policy emanating from the mouth of work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smith seems to belie a fundamental misunderstanding of that fact.
(18) Leeds allowed José Manuel Casado’s corner to bounce and Ameobi drilled Bolton ahead with a confidence that belied his 17-month wait.
(19) De Maizière seems convinced Washington's rhetoric belies its need to keep a firm, if expensive, foothold in Europe.
(20) There is much to like about Blount, whose 235lb frame and physical style belie his explosive acceleration.