The attempt by Mr. Gilliam, an American who became the resident animator of "Monty Python's Flying Circus, " was far from his first experience with embattled productions.
Then there are right-leaning states with embattled Democratic incumbents.
European and United Nations diplomats have traveled to Beirut to meet with the embattled Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora, who has called for an immediate, U.N.
With unions embattled and on the decline, working people of all races lack a sturdy vehicle to articulate and fight for the vision of a more egalitarian society.
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Now, with new Justice Department inquiries about what Gore said about those White House fund-raising calls and his association with the embattled Clinton, Gore looks far less commanding a candidate, and more big-name Democrats may be entertaining thoughts of 2000.
In any event, the risk-averse Romney is faced with the kind of real-time decision that presidential candidates, not to mention presidents, have to face: Will he keep Stevens and be the steadfast CEO who stays the course with an embattled colleague?
However, it is a mistake to lump the NHS's many parts together as an embattled ship fighting off the storms with a determination to remain unchallenged.
Caught in a deflationary trap, Argentines are rapidly becoming disillusioned with their president and his embattled economy minister, Jose Luis Machinea.
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For the money paid, the embattled Detroit schools (those are city kids celebrating with the car at right) could send 4, 500 scholars to compete in a science fair.
Syria's embattled President Bashar al-Assad has surrounded himself primarily with members of his Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam.
Pfizer has chosen Frank A. D'Amelio, an executive credited with slashing jobs and executing a turnaround at embattled telecom-equipment maker Lucent, as its new chief financial officer.
Perhaps most important, Lin's ascension is at least a temporary vindication of the embattled Knicks head coach Mike D'Antoni, who with Steve Nash in Phoenix had built a running offense that thrived with an attacking, passing guard, only to watch the same strategy stifle in New York with incompatible personnel.
Can the Fed afford to get entwined with hedge funds that are big derivatives counterparties or embattled money-market funds?
What is shocking as lurid details keep surfacing are not only the women coming out with new allegations, or confirming old ones against the embattled IMF Chief, but the women who are coming to his defense.
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Several wonder about the implications of the storming of the British embassy in Tehran, with one Israeli commentator seeing it as a warning by an embattled Iran that it has the power to hit back.
Walsh, of course, is the chief executive of embattled British Airways which has been in a drawn-out fight all year with the union that represents its cabin crew over changes in staffing on flights among other things.
Nokia's embattled CEO Stephen Elop latched on to the performance of the flagship Lumia range, with sales of 4.4 million providing evidence that the Windows-based phones were at last making an impact.
He will open the meetings with large institutional investors in New York next Thursday, a day after his embattled company reports third-quarter financial results.
The embattled BlackBerry maker could face new competition if Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) follows through with its plans to produce a top-tier smartphone.
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Isolated, embattled artists, in or out of garrets, do not usually leave large numbers of works with different degrees of "autographness, " nor are they widely imitated.
He benefited from an uptick in the stock of the embattled satellite broadcaster, which in the past month has been hit by lawsuits and a carriage dispute with AMC Networks.
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The first thing the average embattled politician or corporate executive does to prepare for a media interview or press conference is to brainstorm with his or her staff to come up with all of the questions reporters might ask.
Long unpopular with the right as well as the left, Mr Holder may well spend the coming year even more embattled than usual.
As a significant participant in the international community with a veto in the Security Council of the United Nations, it can provide limited political protection to embattled regimes.
Speaking of Hutchison's embattled international wireless telephony ventures, Li rattles off vernacular of the so-called high-speed 3G multimedia phones with the same familiarity he evinces on the debt levels of the various units.
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