siege
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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
On which ground, too, I have often, in sea-storms and sieged cities and other death-scenes, exhibited an imperturbability, which passed, falsely enough, for courage.’
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas
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