He left his safe house in Budapest to meet the commanders of the Red Army, which was besieging the city.
You couldn't imagine that fate for the 69-year-old Carl Icahn (besieging Time Warner) or the 88-year-old Kirk Kerkorian (shaking up General Motors).
There were so many hangers-on, said John of Hildesheim, that they could not get lodgings in Jerusalem and had to camp outside, looking like a besieging army.Flustered as the kings were, the great treasure seemed to get forgotten (except for a small golden apple that was once Alexander's, offered by Melchior, which immediately fell to ash because it symbolised, unhappily, Eve's apple in Eden).
It is the first time in the modern era that a state has split its electoral-college vote (Nebraska and Maine are the only states with a proportional electoral-college system).A Congolese conflagrationLaurent Nkunda, the Congolese rebel leader who is besieging the eastern city of Goma, said his forces were ready to fight African peacekeeping troops if they attacked.
When he got there, he found a couple of young cousins already besieging the place (though one was more interested in the daughter of a local noble than in the city).
Around Aleppo it has captured at least a dozen villages and is now besieging Marea, a nearby town long held by the moderate rebels, who are in increasing danger of being snuffed out.Mr Assad has previously tended to leave IS alone, happy to let it hurt the more moderate rebels.
Mr Sisi's move appears to have been prompted by calls from Brotherhood leaders to ramp up their campaign by besieging critical state facilities.
When a tape of his comments was leaked this week, they proved bracing enough to bring thousands onto the streets, besieging the state broadcasting station and burning cars.
Many famous mosques and churches now lie in ruins.For almost two years, the government has been besieging the old city district, allowing no food in or people out other than during a shaky temporary ceasefire last month.
Aleksandar Hemon, a Bosnian-born writer who now lives in America, believes the shelling of the library was ordered by his old literature professor, Nikola Koljevic, a Shakespeare scholar who horrified his students by joining the leadership of the hard-line Bosnian Serbs who were besieging the city.
These are the ballet's most powerful and haunting scenes: spirits and resurrected militiamen besieging Crane in his bed; armies of ghosts twirling in a moonlit graveyard; the headless horseman's solo dance, evoking his solitary roaming of the countryside.Irving's text suggests these images, but language has a taming effect.
