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The enemy beset the town with a strong army.

But Stone presents him as a man beset with insecurities.

The policemen beset the only road into the building.

The perception that Africa is beset with problems may in itself hinder its development.

Despite the help, plenty of Western farmers have been beset by poverty.

It shows a Japan that remains visibly beset by large-scale threats that strike without warning.

To assail or attack on all sides: the lioness … beset by men and hounds. pope.

How is their country to endure these cruel storms that beset it from without and from within?

He may be beset by ethical problems, whether over campaign finance or Whitewater indictments, even conceivably of his wife.

Japan's economy has been in decline since the early 1990's and recently has been beset by deflation.

The moon in its last quarter, and was long beset with clouds, but after a while, shone out.

The Europeans, beset by difficulties in the euro zone, are desperate that the job should once again go to one of them.

Relations between the two countries have long been beset by minor niggles. But last year saw a big falling-out over policy towards Iran.

“A number of technological challenges and difficulties” have beset Iran’s program, Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s minister of strategic affairs, told Israeli public radio late last month.

It deconstructs the rumbustious 1990s, when inner conflicts of the sort that always beset science but which are generally hidden from the public were made manifest.

In the Life of Saint Guthlac, written around 740, Guthlac is beset by demons, whereupon he "sang the first verse of the sixty-seventh psalm as if prophetically, 'Let God arise,' etc."

Private television is still dominated by Mr Berlusconi. He is still Italy's richest man, still beset by conflicts of interest, still unfit, even if he were a great reformer, to rule Italy.

As well as defending the view of City as a squad beset by disaffected players, Kompany is also keen to debunk the myth of the modern-day player being little more than a mercenary.

With such headaches at home, it is hardly surprising that even the world's biggest retailer finds it hard to deal with the many local difficulties that beset shopkeepers who venture abroad.