Sentence examples for a siege for from inspiring English sources

Government troops have been preparing a siege for weeks, advancing from nearby villages and suburbs.

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Brien had brought in considerable supplies – contemporaries believed the castle could survive a siege for several years if need be – and Stephen changed his mind, putting up two counter-castles to contain Wallingford along the road to Bristol, before continuing west.

They are not only girding for a siege from new competitors but also from established ones.

Early in Oct. their indices told them that we were in for a siege of Hong Kong flu.

That means Kodak, Fuji Film and Sony are in line for a siege of the sort he mounted against Xerox.

Zúñiga estimated the food provisions brought in to be sufficient for a siege of three months' duration.

"For a novel, you must lay in mental, physical and spiritual provision as for a siege or for a time of hectic explosions, while a short story is, or can be, a steady, timed flame like the lighting of a blow lamp on a building site full of dry tinder".

In 1347, six burghers offered their lives to the English in return for ending a siege of the city.

In Taiz, a city in the Yemeni Highlands which has been under a suffocating siege for almost a year, Houthi and Saleh militias have used similar tactics.

"The worst-case scenario is if a siege lasts for a long time, then it will be very difficult to help.