What's the difference between beleaguered and leaguer?
Beleaguered
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Beleaguer
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.
Leaguer
Definition:
(n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
(n.) A siege or beleaguering.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iceland’s players are in there bobbing up and down like a bunch of non‑leaguers ecstatic at being drawn against Everton in the third round of the Cup, a reminder of the miniature scale of this obsessive social experiment.
(2) Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer first openly gay active pro baseball player Read more “People keep saying I’m brave.
(3) The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said Denson, with the help of former major leaguer Billy Bean, reached out to the newspaper to tell his story.
(4) Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer David Denson has become the first openly gay player on a team affiliated with major league baseball.
(5) 10.25pm BST The list Just to reconfirm, here is a list of those who were suspended today for their links to the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic which was accused of providing MLB players with performance-enhancing drugs: Major League players Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees Everth Cabrera, SS, San Diego Padres Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Francisco Cervelli, C, New York Yankees Jesus Montero, C, Seattle Mariners Jhonny Peralta, SS, Detroit Tigers Jordany Valdespin, INF, New York Mets Minor leaguers players Sergio Escalona, P, Houston Astros Fernando Martinez, OF, New York Yankees Jordan Norberto, P, free agent Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Cesar Puello, OF, New York Mets All players will serve suspensions of 50 games starting immediately with the exception of Jordan Norberto, whose suspension begins when he signs with a team, and Alex Rodriguez, whose suspension of 211 games begins on Thursday and is pending an appeal.
(6) The good news is the success rate of the surgery which, judged by those major leaguers that make it back to The Show, approaches 80%.
(7) Wilson says that unlike most major leaguers who are usually the best guys on their team by the age of 11 or 12, he didn’t have the physical tools to match his peers until he was a sophomore in college.
(8) 8.12pm BST The list First things first, who is suspended: Major League players Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees Everth Cabrera, SS, San Diego Padres Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Francisco Cervelli, C, New York Yankees Jesus Montero, C, Seattle Mariners Jhonny Peralta, SS, Detroit Tigers Jordany Valdespin, INF, New York Mets Minor leaguers players Sergio Escalona, P, Houston Astros Fernando Martinez, OF, New York Yankees Jordan Norberto, P, free agent Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Cesar Puello, OF, New York Mets Updated at 8.27pm BST 8.06pm BST MLB suspends 13 players for involvement in drug scandal Major League Baseball has suspended 13 players due to their involvement with Biogenesis of America, the now closed anti-aging wellness clinic accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to MLB players.
(9) Delabar would be an unlikely All-Star, one with a story – which Canada's National Post describes as: Struggling minor-leaguer throws pitch and fractures elbow.
(10) The symptoms and findings were quite similar to the previously reported involvement of the medial epicondylar epiphysis or "Little Leaguer's elbow.