siege
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Tuesday's heist is another example of "Europe's museums under siege", he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
It was the longest city siege in the savage history of modern warfare.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Conversations with people on the island show a nation that feels under siege.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
A veteran anti-Assad activist, Jandali, 48, lived through siege and exile and has written more than 20 books.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
But they had not yet overthrown the siege, nor won the Gate.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.
From Slate ● Nov. 19, 2025
We stretch beyond the cathedral and onto Pamplona’s city walls, where the stone holds centuries of sieges, prayers, and heartbreak.
From Salon ● Nov. 8, 2025
Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that "sieges" were illegal under international law.
From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023
The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
For three thousand years, this little promontory has known sieges.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
And at a subsequent screening he met several audience members who said they were from Mariupol and that their relatives were escaping the sieged city at the same time he was.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023
On February 28, 1993, law enforcement sieged Mount Carmel Center ranch, the compound that belonged to Koresh and his religious cult.
From Salon ● Mar. 24, 2023
“There is quite a lot of people still remaining in the absolutely sieged city of Mariupol in some inhumane conditions,” he said during a video briefing.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 4, 2022
Over these past weekends, many of my friends have attended medical first aid courses, survival courses on how to survive in an occupied or sieged city.
From Slate ● Feb. 18, 2022
The city's sieged, and thou thus chain'd In airy fetters of a lady's love!
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Robert Dodsley
It has also levied some sanctions on those doing the sieging.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2022
What could such tender creatures have done at such a place as the sieging of Charlestown?
From Horse-Shoe Robinson A Tale of the Tory Ascendency by John Pendleton Kennedy
As it is, the Austrian Army is not annihilated; only bottled into Prag, and will need sieging.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
His worst war was with Pommern,—just claims disputed there, and much confused bickering, sieging and harassing in consequence: of which quarrel we must speak anon.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
So thinks Czarish Majesty, as well as Soltikof, privately, though there are difficulties as to Dantzig; and, in fine, except Colberg over again, there can be nothing attempted of sieging thereabouts.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 19 by Thomas Carlyle
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