Modifying Another Word

• increasingly: As the state became increasingly embattled, so its appeals to national identity inevitably reflected the imperial and centralizing mission of the state.

Modifies a noun

• parapet: There is an embattled parapet around the slate roof.

• tower: It has an embattled western tower, with spire containing five bells.

• minority: All this has made our " embattled minority " self-image more difficult to maintain.

• minister: Friday, 05 November 2004 Kate Ward has an afternoon meeting with the embattled minister Geoff Hoon, and comes away a little nervous.

• wall: Upon its embattled walls floated the national colors of Russia.

• city: Not about the barricades that bristled all over the embattled city.

Used with adjective complement

• feel: It is not only church liberals who have felt embattled over recent decades.

• become: Barbara Castle and Jim Callaghan handled the 1968 Donovan Report so disastrously, and the government became embattled with the trade unions.