He even declined to lay in supplies in case of a siege because he was sure that God would provide.
Fearing the possibility of a summary trial and execution, the Protestants proceeded instead to Perth, a walled town that could be defended in case of a siege.
The castle complex, particularly the Waist Quarter, contains numerous warehouses that were used to store rice, salt, and water in case of a siege.
Phips' defeat was complete and disastrous; fortunately for the French, since food was lacking to feed the large force assembled to defend Quebec in case of a prolonged siege.
Joining him on the shortlist for best novel are Andrew Miller, another Booker nominee, for Oxygen, and Helen Dunmore, whose book The Siege, like McEwan's Atonement, mixes memory with traumatic events of the second world war, in her case the siege of Leningrad.
Many 20th-century historians have stressed the potential military strength of Castle Rising; R. Allen Brown, for example, concluded that "defence ... was the overwhelming consideration in [its] design and construction", and argued that the keep would have been used as a final refuge in the case of attack during a siege.
In the United States, fewer than 10 years after the use of thermal imaging in the Waco, Texas Branch Davidian siege, the watershed case of Kyllo versus United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001) held that thermal imaging constituted a "search" against which individuals had a right to both due process and privacy.
As emergency cases back up in Gaza's hospitals, other crises that have built up over the 11 years of siege and conflict are being brought to light.
