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He was arrested in 2022 after a 15-hour police siege at the school, where supporters had gathered to prevent his arrest.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

Then the Weavers came under siege that August.

From "Educated" by Tara Westover

Modern battlefields are increasingly urban; sieges increasingly prolonged; hunger increasingly systematic.

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

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

Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday that "sieges" were illegal under international law.

From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023

You could calculate exactly how many power cells were needed, and sieges could be extended for up to eight hours.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

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

Now, Yedlin has a baby daughter named Seneca — which is also a nod to the Roman philosopher and predominantly Black village sieged in the 1800s to build Central Park in New York.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

“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

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

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

The admiral's power exceedeth the king's," wrote Cecil to Nicholas White: "he is sieging of Poitiers, the winning or losing whereof will make an end of the cause.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

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