Weeds are the little vices that beset plant life, and are to be got rid of the best way we know how. From LearnThat.org. [unknown, Source: Farmer's Almanac, 1881]
The zebra was beset by leopards. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
But the project is beset from the start by a fiendish enemy, and also that weird phantom of outer space, Zero Gravity. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Outpost in Space » Fanboy.com] Reference
But there's an I-told-you-so attitude in the West Wing — a rare feel-good moment in a second term beset by a succession of crises. From Wordnik.com. [White House Revels In War-Funding Vote] Reference
Kollapen said the report describes a community "beset" by problems. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
A man needs a stout heart, a clear head, and a sure hand, to hold his own in a welter of interests and antagonisms such as beset me. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Colonel] Reference
But there were no other hardships such as beset Odysseus, between the burning of Troy and his return to Ithaca, west of the land of Greece. From Wordnik.com. [Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew] Reference
Indeed, he is beset at every turn by the ties that bind. From Wordnik.com. [Kick Back With Crime] Reference
Tension would beset China's ties with the U.S. and Japan. From Wordnik.com. [Power Up] Reference
Similar problems beset another grand design, Shares for Justice. From Wordnik.com. [How Popular Is He Really?] Reference
Poor Susie, beset on all sides by people who just won't quite do. From Wordnik.com. ["As Husbands Go," a new comic novel by Susan Isaacs] Reference
Elsewhere the country is beset by ethnic, economic and religious strife. From Wordnik.com. [Why He's Failing] Reference
Granted, they have been beset by pain and misery, but whose family hasn't?. From Wordnik.com. [A Family's Misfortune] Reference
While Clinton steeled himself and set to work, Bob Dole was beset by doubts. From Wordnik.com. [Two Men, One Choice] Reference
Thereafter, he was beset by agents and lawyers and other buttonhole salesmen. From Wordnik.com. [In A League Of His Own] Reference
The arms shipments also help U.S. defense contractors beset by Pentagon cutbacks. From Wordnik.com. [Sneaking In The Scuds] Reference
Genzyme has been beset by manufacturing woes but is trying to turn itself around. From Wordnik.com. [Genzyme Catches Eye of Others] Reference
He was beset by "shyness and introspection," and emotionally dependent on his wife. From Wordnik.com. [Poor Little Rich Man] Reference
But he can't resist sneak attacks on the neurotics and colossal bores who beset him. From Wordnik.com. [Five Best] Reference
Yes, the hard-core welfare recipients shall always be with us, beset by personal demons. From Wordnik.com. [A Real Piece Of Work] Reference
"Roger & Me" chronicled the misery that beset once proud Flint, Mich., after GM layoffs. From Wordnik.com. ['Roger & Me' Redux] Reference
Yet it's a dismal fact that America was beset by a virulent and pervasive anti-Semitism. From Wordnik.com. [Holocaust And The Home Front] Reference
They were beset by a Biblical array of pestilence: cholera, dysentery, bubonic plague and measles. From Wordnik.com. [A Race With Death] Reference
Meantime Fox's center-right National Action Party (PAN) has been beset with charges of corruption. From Wordnik.com. [WORST LADY?] Reference
He was, however, beset by challenges -- more from the right than the left -- on economics and security. From Wordnik.com. [Bush's 'Phase One'] Reference
Many here are proud the state avoided the anti-immigration Proposition 209 rancor that has beset California. From Wordnik.com. [So Long 'Dallas,' Hello High Tech] Reference
To make it worse, these trials beset you in public view; the world is watching, and not all of it with sympathy. From Wordnik.com. [Stiffen Your Lips, Yanks] Reference
By reaching out to religious leaders, DreamWorks hopes to fend off the protests that have beset archrival Disney. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood And Divine] Reference
For an industry beset by recession and lately bereft of style, the tents were the one certifiable hit of the season. From Wordnik.com. [A Season Of Sheer Nonsense] Reference
The century that followed was beset by just such grandiose fanaticism, and it became the bloodiest in all of human history. From Wordnik.com. [From The Prison Of The 'Isms'] Reference
With sales off 23 percent this year, the brand is beset with the same aging buyers and lack of cachet that killed Oldsmobile. From Wordnik.com. [Another Ford Behind The Wheel] Reference
Franken even wrote a book ( "Why Not Me?") imagining himself as president, cowering in the Oval Office and beset by "mood swings.". From Wordnik.com. ['08 No Joke] Reference
Kerry can seem like a character in a Hawthorne story -- a dour, beset New Englander forgetting to smile as he thinks deep thoughts. From Wordnik.com. [KICKING INTO HIGH GEAR] Reference
But still it remained a countdown to oblivion, since once infected, once beset by any number of AIDS-related diseases, one died, right?. From Wordnik.com. [I Have Learned To Hope] Reference
Simpson, the once jet-setting owner of luxury houses, now likely faces a more austere lifestyle beset by lawyers trailing him for money. From Wordnik.com. [O.J. Family Values] Reference
Baghdad is still beset by blackouts, and so much of America's success or failure depends on power: the economy can't recover with-out it. From Wordnik.com. [The $87 Billion Money Pit] Reference
That we are still beset with physical-mental illnesses is explained by the fact that we still refuse to recognize our own spiritual nature. From Wordnik.com. [LETTERS] Reference
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is a clinical syndrome in which the sufferer is beset by recurrent, intrusive memories of a traumatic event. From Wordnik.com. [What’s Your Name Again?] Reference
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