Word: beset
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...promised his countrymen, ''Things are going to change.'' He added, ''You want a revolution in Haiti. We are going to do it together.'' Namphy sought to disarm his critics by saying that national elections would be held in November 1987. After 28 years of Duvalier rule, Haiti is beset by an opposition that is splintered into two dozen or more parties that may decide to field presidential candidates. The situation was so volatile that nobody could possibly predict what Haiti might be like in 17 months' time. But for the moment, many Haitians believe the present junta has a better...
...Twain got older and was beset by personal tragedies like the death of his beloved daughter Susy, his view of mankind grew darker. He once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year...
...BESET FROM ALL SIDES
...years after the birth of the houses, the College embarked on a $35 million residential renovation—the largest in University history up until that point. The ambitious plans were beset with complicating factors: the accommodation of current students, the funding of such a large-scale project, and the establishment of realistic time frames would not be simple...
...India's world-class doctors that the country brags about when its marketers sell India as a medical-tourism destination and an emerging health-services giant. The truth behind the glossy advertising is less incredible: India remains the sick man of Asia, malnourished and obese at the same time, beset by epidemics of AIDS and diabetes, and with spending levels on public health that even Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has conceded "are seriously lagging behind other developing countries in Asia...