Sentence examples for besieging cities from inspiring English sources

For the next several months, Colonna fought an evasive war of maneuver against Odet de Foix, Vicomte de Lautrec, the French commander, besieging cities but refusing to give battle.

Over the past year, Iraqi forces have slowly clawed back territory from IS. Facing a militant organization that proclaimed itself a state, Iraq's security forces battled IS with conventional military tactics: cutting supply lines, besieging cities and measuring victory in square kilometers.

Rebels claim this truce does not apply to the town, which lies between the besieged cities of Donetsk and Luhansk.

As Mr Pollack says, most besieged cities fall bloodlessly; but, when they do not, terrible fighting tends to ensue.

They dodge shrapnel and bullets on the front lines; they spend months in besieged cities rife with snipers.

At the meeting, countries also pledged millions of dollars worth of food and medicine to help people in Syria's besieged cities.

The government armies went on the defensive in besieged cities, partly out of fear that demoralized divisions would defect in the field.

Those drones, though, will operate only on the frontlines separating the rebels and the government forces, with the justification of protecting civilians in besieged cities like Misurata.

ABDUL RAHMAN, a protester in Damascus, on an international meeting that called on Syria's government to halt its attacks on besieged cities. [A1].

Ban expressed grave concern over the escalation of violence in Libya and called for a ceasefire and the relief of besieged cities.

In a country of strong local identities, protesters have organized rallies in support of other besieged cities like Dara'a, in the south, and Baniyas, on the coast.