siege
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Miklosko stood in United's way, denying Mark Hughes, Lee Sharpe and Andy Cole in what frustrated Red Devils manager Alex Ferguson described as a "siege".
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
Tuesday's heist is another example of "Europe's museums under siege", he adds.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Srebrenica, a mainly Muslim town in eastern Bosnia, falls to Bosnian Serb troops shortly after the start of the siege of the capital Sarajevo at the beginning of the Bosnian war in April 1992.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Many modern histories of the siege assume that there was only one possible outcome.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The siege was covered on the networks’ nightly news programs.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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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
Volker Turk said sieges and abduction of hostages were both against 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
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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
And 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 ● Jan. 23, 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
Brandenburg saw its towns sieged and sacked, its country populations driven to despair, by the one party and the other.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 03 by Thomas Carlyle
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
On the other hand, that this mode of sieging by red-hot balls seems a little unusual; for the rest, that he has himself no order or intention but that of resisting to the last.'
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
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
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