siege
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When the capital came under siege by Islamist fighters, they managed to impose a partial blockade there and total blockades elsewhere including the city of Ségou.
From BBC â—Ź Aug. 13, 2026
Mr. Kaldellis evokes the drama and uncertainty of the siege.
From The Wall Street Journal â—Ź Aug. 5, 2026
That landmark picture features McElwee, then in his mid-30s, as he tries to chronicle the exploits of Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, who laid siege to the South during the Civil War.
From Los Angeles Times â—Ź Jul. 16, 2026
Many fear the merger will result in massive job cuts in an industry that has been under siege from consolidations and layoffs.
From Barron's â—Ź Jul. 15, 2026
The door was simple but solidly built—an important consideration if and when under siege.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.
From Slate â—Ź 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 â—Ź Nov. 8, 2025
The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.
From BBC â—Ź Oct. 11, 2023
Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday, adding that "sieges" were illegal under international law.
From Reuters â—Ź Oct. 10, 2023
I had read about sieges like this in my English history book, but in ancient days soldiers had worn armor and ridden horseback and used battering rams against the city walls.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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 â—Ź 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 â—Ź 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 â—Ź 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 â—Ź 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 â—Ź Feb. 24, 2022
Italy, all but some sieging of strong-places, may be considered as lost for the present.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Thomas Carlyle
Friedrich is not thought to shine in the sieging line as he does in the fighting; which has some truth in it, though not very much.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Thomas Carlyle
Otto went about, sieging much the same, with the iron in his head; and is called Otto MIT DEM PFOILE, Otto SAGITTARIUS, or Otto with the Arrow, in consequence.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 02 by Thomas Carlyle
Outside of these lines, with a 50,000 dashing fiercely round us, under any kind of leading; pouncing on our convoys; harassing and sieging US,—our siege of Toumay were a sad outlook.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Thomas Carlyle
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