siege
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Supply chains that transform crude into fuel are still under siege, and that is keeping prices high—helping drive a brutal bond selloff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
During the 1710 siege of Tallinn, for example, the disease killed Swedish and Russian soldiers as well as civilians.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 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
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
This frequently happens in sieges, such as Germany's encirclement of Leningrad during World War II.
From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2024
The tactics to enforce the sieges have also limited residents’ access to health and education, forcing one in 12 people across the country to flee their homes, the organization said.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 2, 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
The War, since Friedrich got out of it, does not abate in animosity, nor want for bloodshed, battle and sieging; but offers little now memorable.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 16 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
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
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
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