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Dick was a fine person, apart from his besetting sin-he drank too much.

Numerous problems that have been besetting Taiwan would be judiciously resolved within the framework of one China.

A shuffle in the ownership of a piece of prestige Shanghai real estate demonstrates the pressures besetting China's property developers.

So far, such protests are the most tangible evidence of the troubles besetting Icelandic society.

avarice is growing with him a besetting sin.

What courage can withstand the ever during and all-besetting terrors of a woman's tongue?

Owing to sabotage by Lin Biao and his like, there are quite a few problems besetting our army. Many of the comrades present here feel this.

As Bob and I examined the problems besetting US corporations circa 1980, we believed they and their advisers had got things backwards.

Ogama's decision, though extreme, points to a larger problem besetting[4] Japan, which has one of the world's fastest- graying societies.

This is an extreme example of two problems besetting efforts to help sex workers.

S. . . Property rights, capital, the quality of teaching, sector recruits are issues besetting developers and buyers.

Complacency, their besetting sin in recent years, may finally be a thing of the past.

Or will she end up being crushed by the bureaucracy and the policy nightmares besetting the west and the IMF?

linked poverty and unemployment to the social unrest besetting the city.

But it is just in this besetting dinginess that flowers begin to show their faces in bright and fascinating glory.

That strongly suggests the problem besetting the markets and the economy lie elsewhere.

America's downgrade by a single ratings agency obscures the real problems now besetting the global economy.

I will be keeping my spiritual form for several years as I go about discussing the major problems besetting Earth.

Moire besetting color plate-making industry in decades.

Casting reflections on others is her besetting sin.

Your besetting sin is laziness.