Sentences with phrase «beleaguered nation»

Critics praised it as a timely, heartfelt work that tapped into anxiety about the ongoing recession and the wave of unemployment beleaguering the nation.

Around three weeks or so ago, we first heard about the petro, a new state - sponsored cryptocurrency from the badly beleaguered nation of Venezuela, where right now, people are starving to death.

The axe fell on Brazil heading into 2016 as it suffered a downgrade to junk status by Fitch Ratings, heightening the air of crisis as the beleaguered nation grapples with political turmoil and recession.

The spectacular performances of the Syrian football team in the Asian leg of the FIFA World Cup qualifiers have given renewed hope to a beleaguered nation.

Every intelligent citizen needs to acknowledge where this beleaguered nation is now is for absolutely wrong, untenable reasons.

While the director tags along with Foley and his compatriots on a few desert - mountain excursions, one of which results in a bland confrontation with border - smuggling mules, these sequences add little other - side - of - the - story context to Cartel Land, mainly because Foley comes across as little more than an anti-government extremist infatuated with fantasies of defending his beleaguered nation from invading hordes.

In this compelling portrait, three influential individuals persuade a reluctant president to come to the aid of a beleaguered nation in the early days of WWII.

There has been plenty of talk about Greece leaving the Eurozone in the last two years, yet the beleaguered nation continues to hang on for its life.

The Pacific Regional Environment Program has assisted the nation in «improving (its) sea walls and drainage system,» but shifting weather patterns and severe weather continue to plague the beleaguered nation.