To counter the South American advances, the United States and Europe have increased subsidies to their own beleaguered farmers.

Thoughts of beleaguered white farmers, squatters and war veterans disappeared in that two-second glimpse of the chasm where the Zambezi tumbles 300ft into a swirling, smoking maelstrom of water.

Land acquisition laws in India are under intense criticism by the beleaguered farmers whose lands are acquired for the urbanisation or industrialisation.

Following this publicity, charitable donations flowed from around the nation to help the beleaguered farmer.

In the Great Depression, the Federal Government hired a corps of photographers to capture the searing poverty of beleaguered farmers and other workers and, not incidentally, to provide work for unemployed photographers.

And on grain production, the U.S. won substantial cutbacks in subsidized E.C. exports, providing ample relief for beleaguered American farmers.

When campaigning for president during 1928, one of Herbert Hoover's promises to help beleaguered farmers had been to increase tariffs of agricultural products.

In another move that worried the West, Prime Minister Viktor S. Chernomyrdin promised beleaguered farmers and ailing industries protectionist measures to help safeguard them from foreign competition.

China's beleaguered farmers are among those most threatened by the changes the country agreed to make to become a W.T.O. member.

And it urged beleaguered African farmers to plant other crops.