Word: besets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...prove successful. Once again summonses to a new national resolve and unity sounded in the rhetoric of the hour. Confronted like the rest of Western Europe with a shortfall in oil supplies and impossible prices for the oil it can still buy, Britain, unlike its neighbors, was beset by a crisis within a crisis-and one largely produced at home...
Arabs charge that these centers are beset by a condition known as "Arablessness," and that this in turn gives American students a distorted, outsiders' view of Arab culture. A major manifestation is a lack of scholars from the Arab world, particularly in contemporary studies. Harvard, for instance, has three Arabs on its tenured faculty, but two are medievalists and the third is a linguist. There are no tenured Arabs at all in the University of Chicago's Middle Eastern program, and only one in a staff of 15 at Berkeley...
...military dictatorship of Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn, 62, was inefficient, authoritarian and beset with economic problems. There was wide discontent because of the rising cost of rice and Thanom's police-state methods. The revolt that abruptly brought down his regime started when university students in Bangkok issued a list of mild demands that seemed to have goals more appropriate to Disraeli than Mao: a new constitution (the old one had been arbitrarily scrapped by the military government in 1971) and free elections. To the government, however, the demands amounted to near sedition. Twelve student demonstrators and professors were...
...such problems beset the judges awarding the prizes for economics and literature, which went to Harvard's Wassily Leontief, 67 (see ECONOMY & BUSINESS), and Australian Patrick White, 61, whose sensitive, lonely novels are set against the vast open spaces of his homeland...
...CITY BESET by over 150 murders each year, it is odd that two should be treated so differently. For the most part, the stories which reported the murders were accurate (discounting of course the Barba fiasco) but the prominence assigned th stories and the subsequent graphic, and follow-up reporting was badly overdone...