Sentence examples for besieging this from inspiring English sources

While his army was besieging this great fortress, he signed armistices with the duke of Parma, with the duke of Modena, and finally with Pope Pius VI.

This was a headquarters of the pro-Qaddafi forces besieging this city.

Afghanistan's first major battle of the post-Taliban era ended tonight when the soldiers of the warlord besieging this strategic city south of Kabul ran out of ammunition and fled the battlefront in clouds of dust, cursing the warlord to his face for his callousness in committing them to a fight they were doomed to lose.

He besieges this self with queries and accusations that seldom elicit a response.

Eight thousand fighters just besieged this small town in the middle of a vast expanse, razing huts, burning granaries, stealing tens of thousands of cows and methodically killing hundreds, possibly thousands, of men, women and children hiding in the bush.

When their rural army base is besieged, this warring group embarks upon a road trip towards London, during which Melanie's true nature will be doubted, fought over and gradually revealed.

DUBROVNIK, Croatia — It is a sign that the global financial crisis has hit the Adriatic when Croatia is reaching out to its former enemies: for the first time since Serbian and Montenegrin forces besieged this historic port city in 1991, businesspeople here are publicly appealing to Serbian tourists to help rescue the economy.

Despite rapid advances in technology, efforts to besiege this robust pathogen seem to fail.

In Trump's statement about Charlottesville Saturday, he refused to specifically condemn the white supremacists who besieged this picturesque college town.

"What they did on 20 November was unforgivable … For the next 10 days we were besieged in this base.

Guns, food, everything imaginable entered the besieged city this way, as a raw but evocative video played at the entrance room attests.