siege
Example Sentences
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Big food companies are under siege, buffeted in recent years by heightened scrutiny of processed foods, consumer anger over soaring grocery bills and the growing popularity of weight-loss drugs.
The result is that one of Ukraine’s largest and most vibrant cities is under a form of siege.
Under the pressure of enormous change, bildung now came to mean “a precarious heritage under siege by rival nationalists.”
Firms that had banner years would lay siege to hotel ballrooms, trumpeting their good fortune with rip-roaring excesses more suited to an Indian wedding.
Dudnyk, 50, who works for the Ukrainian NGO "Voices of Children", also carries her own wounds -- fleeing from her hometown Mariupol, which was occupied by the Russian army after a brutal siege.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
