siege

But maybe that's what this Scottish side needs – a siege mentality.

UK special forces troops who served in Sarajevo during the siege have told the BBC the allegations are an "urban myth".

“Laying siege to the institutions and taking them back is the big-picture theme,” Lucas told the Daily Caller, a conservative news outlet, this summer.

According to the United Nations, nearly 100,000 people have fled El-Fasher and surrounding areas since the city's fall, while tens of thousands remain trapped in famine conditions after an 18-month-long siege.

And yet she had been the first English battleship to have gunports and to mount complete batteries of siege artillery—a really key ship in the development process at a time of rapid technological change.