bedeviled

Since taking office, he’s grappled with many of the same problems that bedeviled prior sheriffs: poor jail conditions, sprawling consent decrees, allegations about deputy gangs and persistent staffing woes.

The action is prefaced by a Looney Tunes-ish cartoon entitled “Me and My Shadow,” depicting Arthur bedeviled by his own shadow, which is more powerful than he is.

Immigration reform has bedeviled presidents of both parties for decades.

Cancer has bedeviled humans for as long as we have existed, and it even afflicted life on Earth long before.

The announcement marks another small step forward on an issue that has long bedeviled the president.