siege
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Much of Delhi looked like a city under siege on Saturday, with roads barricaded and offices, shops and restaurants shut.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
In an interview on Friday with CNN, Giuffra said: "She's under siege on social media where people are trying to identify her."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 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
Under siege, Elizabeth slowly made her way toward the bench at the bus stop.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
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Similar sieges unfolded across Syria—in Duma, Zabadani, and beyond.
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
Volker Turk said sieges and abduction of hostages were both against international law.
From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023
The UN human rights chief has said sieges are illegal under international law.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2023
The beat knights had gone to perfection, leaving the wont to hold their sieges.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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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 ● 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 ● 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 ● 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
But Clive's keen eyes discerned stuff for better things than the sieging of Indian forts in the young volunteer.
From A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III by Justin McCarthy
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
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
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