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The industry already has been buffeted by foreign competition.

Szabo said the city’s finances are also being buffeted by outside factors.

The Conservatives, Reform UK and others made the same argument and the government found itself buffeted around by the noise of the outrage.

Biden and his team were buffeted by events – some within his control and some outside it.

His presidency also was buffeted by domestic crises — rampant inflation and high unemployment, as well as interminable lines at gas stations triggered by a decline in the global oil supply exacerbated by Iran’s Islamic Revolution.