| Workers besiege police barracks and surround the paratroopers attacking the soldiers, arguing with them. |
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| In August 1552 the young Tsar led a Russian army, perhaps 150,000 strong, to besiege Kazan, a walled and moated town set on a hill. |
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| My aim is to revisit their insights in order to call for a renewed revaluation of polka against the continuing stereotypes that besiege it. |
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| A holiday in Peru turns into an endurance test, as a whole sequence of health problems besiege me throughout, and for several weeks thereafter. |
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| So the order is to besiege civilian areas and use food and water as a weapon. |
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| Fans besiege his house daily, while he is regularly accosted by members of the public seeking anything from an autograph to a fist fight. |
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| In June 1216, Montfort assembled an army to relieve the garrison and besiege the town of Beaucaire. |
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| It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders. |
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| He clearly felt that it would have been better not to besiege the city in the first place, but that once the siege was begun it should have been carried through to completion. |
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| When you besiege a city by an army, you're just making them integrate together, and there will be a code of warriors trying to fight for their lives, which is wrong. |
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| The names «Gog and Magog» refer to this prophecy of Ezekiel, describing how Satan will lead the nations to besiege the New Jerusalem. |
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| Nevertheless, it seems even more the case to me, that Occupy – in looking to besiege the stock exchange – has chosen the wrong target. |
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| Seeing the Heavenly City coming down from heaven, Satan will decide to besiege it, and to do so he will gather all the nations and deceive them. |
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| The guild who places the highest bid wins the chance to besiege the city on the following day. |
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| The rebel response has been to besiege the strategically important town of Kidal. |
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| Catherine is a young woman and she asks questions, going right to the heart of the problems and challenges that besiege the Church of her time. |
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| Assad reacts violently by giving the order to besiege the city and to bombard it with heavy artillery. |
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| This widespread belief prevents us from being on guard as ads besiege us. |
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| A military medieval camp is presented at the entrance of the city. It displays the war machines that were used to besiege a city. |
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| Your talking of a retreat, Mr. Marlow, puts me in mind of the Duke of Marlborough, when we went to besiege Denain. |
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| In June, the much awaited French help arrived at Leith to besiege and ultimately take Haddington. |
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| They were therefore able to besiege and blockade each other with great cruelty in 1993-94, when those two groups were fighting each other, as well as the Serbs. |
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| Are the trees of the field people, that you should besiege them? |
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| In Mauritania, teachers leave their posts to besiege ministerial officials and Ministry of Education directors every day, asking for transfers or favours. |
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| After sixteen days of besiege the town was razed to the ground. |
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| The Prussian army was too weak to simultaneously besiege Prague and keep von Daun away, and Frederick was forced to attack prepared positions. |
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| In February 1761 Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick surprised French troops at Langensalza and then advanced to besiege Cassel in March. |
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| Howe restrained his subordinates from pursuit, opting to besiege Washington instead. |
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| Arthur soon arrived to besiege him, but, the peacemaking saint persuaded Melvas to release Guinevere and the two kings made peace. |
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| There is reason to believe that the Germans would not attempt to assault the city but besiege and bombard it. |
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| News of Nero's death reached Vespasian as he was preparing to besiege the city of Jerusalem. |
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| Henry, Robert, and Ranulf took a large contingent of troops to besiege the peninsular capital of the kingdom, Salerno. |
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| Don Fadrique's army later attempted to besiege Alkmaar but the rebels won by opening the dikes and routing the Spanish troops. |
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| Solicitants for office besiege him, and he of course finds his hands full for the present. |
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| They also started to besiege the new city of Tripoli, but in vain, and then returned to Cyprus. |
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| Only the castle of Caen held out, despite attempts to besiege it. |
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| Asser's account of the raid places the Danish raiders at the Saxon city of Rochester, where they built a temporary fortress in order to besiege the city. |
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| Odoacer emerged from Ravenna and started to besiege his rival. |
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