buffeted

It has been subject to political sensitivities and soapbox rhetoric, buffeted by popular disbelief and official omertà.

A re-elected President finds himself buffeted by violence abroad and hostile political winds at home.

Beltway firms large and small have been buffeted by the sequester.

In the last scene, he uses his calculus of flow to rescue an Iraqi boy from a fast-moving, wind-buffeted river.

The Czech government has been buffeted in recent months by a series of corruption scandals that have threatened to bring it down.

Thereafter we were buffeted like chips in the swirling maw of a whirlpool; we fought our way rod by rod.

Off the coast of South Carolina they ran into a heavy storm, and the great ship creaked and groaned as it buffeted wind and wave.

All night the gale buffeted the high windows of the church, and howled over the upland and roared through the woodland.

By this time the barque was being helplessly buffeted about amongst the reefs, a little less than a mile and a half from shore.

How gladly he would have seized this offer of a comfortable, luxurious home, after having been buffeted about the world so long!