Sentence examples for for siege from inspiring English sources

They didn't vote for siege and blockade and unemployment.

Neo-Nazi skinheads may turn up as well, to fight on one side or the other.As a result the town is preparing for siege.

Oates's fellow American Claire Vaye Watkins was selected for Battleborn, set in her home state of Nevada, and Canadian Tamas Dobozy for Siege 13, a series of linked stories alternating between second world war Hungary and a community of Hungarian émigrés in the contemporary west.

Local trees were cut down, and stone quarrying begun to provide ammunition for siege engines.

Also, autumn was not considered a suitable time for siege operations.

In Athens and Corinth, records show desperate attempts to re-build the city walls, as they prepared for siege.

They picked targets popular with westerners, including a Jewish house of prayer, and dug in for sieges at the Taj Mahal and Oberoi-Trident hotels.

They were reserved primarily for sieges and were rarely used in open battles.

Mortars were useful for sieges, as they could fire over walls and other defenses.

Mortars were useful for sieges, as they could hit targets behind walls or other defences.

Cannon were being used for sieges in the 1320s, and hand-held guns were in use by the 1360s.