6 sentences with 'beset'
Example sentences and phrases with the word beset and other words derived from it.
• « Just as Rome had fallen in the west, Byzantium was beset by enemies all around it, enemies who had a depressing tendency to crush Byzantine armies and occasionally assassinate their emperors. »
• « Its population was only a quarter of France's and its monarchy was comparatively weak; just as France was reorganising along absolutist lines, England's monarchy was beset by powerful landowners with traditional privileges that they were not at all willing to relinquish. »
• « In short, the Ottoman Empire was beset by external pressures in the form of growing European military power and European intrusion into its economy. It also suffered from internal problems, notably the corruption of the janissaries and the intransigence of reactionaries such as Abdulhamit. »
• « In Freud's theory, the reason most people have so many psychological problems is that the Ego (Self) is perpetually beset by these powerful forces of which it is unaware. The Id (Ego) bombards the Ego with an endless hunger for indulgence, while the Superego (Overself) demands social conformity. »
• « The political order of Europe (Russia, as usual, was an exception) and the United States during the 1920s was beset by strife and conflict, but as the economies of the West struggled to recover from World War I, there was at least some economic growth. That growth came to a halt in 1929 with the advent of the Great Depression. »
• « Manuel Belgrano arrived in Buenos Aires beset by a fatal illness and died on 20 June 1820, a day when the city was shaken by anarchy. »