besets

His word besets us behind, and before, and it lays its hand upon us.

The Friend on the Road and Other Studies in the Gospels 1817-1893 1922

An uneasiness, not such as besets one on the eve of some event, but such as one feels on remembering some good that one has lost forever, filled Janina's heart.

Komediantka. English W��adys��aw Stanis��aw Reymont 1896

For many of the NO folks, opposition is so engrained as to be a matter of almost religious ferocity such as besets the minority Party of NO that holds our State Legislature hostage when it comes to financial matters.

HALFWAY TO CONCORD Edi Birsan 2009

Perhaps an inner tension besets the motto; perhaps it should read not “Fraternity or Death” but “Fraternity and Death.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

There is nothing in the Constitution, or in the economic expertise of those drafting it, to guide us through a post-industrial global financial crisis of the kind which now besets us.

David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness David Coates 2011

Perhaps an inner tension besets the motto; perhaps it should read not “Fraternity or Death” but “Fraternity and Death.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

In the same spirit contemporary political thinkers often embrace the idea of the “clash of civilizations” to fathom the violence that besets the world.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

In the same spirit contemporary political thinkers often embrace the idea of the “clash of civilizations” to fathom the violence that besets the world.

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

Unlike the IMF's traditional lending facilities, employed after a crisis besets a country, the precautionary credit line is designed to prevent crises.

IMF Makes Credit Line Available to Macedonia Ian Talley 2011

There is nothing in the Constitution, or in the economic expertise of those drafting it, to guide us through a post-industrial global financial crisis of the kind which now besets us.

David Coates: Sanity in a Time of Madness David Coates 2011