Sentence examples for full siege from inspiring English sources

"We are under full siege.

"It is a full siege there, impossible to send any kind of medical aid," he said.

Aid workers say a full siege of Aleppo could create a massive humanitarian catastrophe.

Its magazines contained over 25 thousand cannon rounds, almost 900 thousand musket and rifle rounds and enough provisions for several months of full siege.

Finding that to occupy the town would require a full siege, for which they had insufficient troops, they occupied St Servan, where they burned over one hundred vessels including thirty privateers.

Amid this week's fighting, regime forces were able to cut off a vital supply line to Turkey, raising the spectre of a full siege of the city of Aleppo.

We're supposed to see Snow White and The Huntsman as an epic – a rain-drenched, mud-spattered epic, full of siege engines, burning villages, and all sorts of borrowings from The Lord of the Rings and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.

The idea is that only by waging a full-scale siege on a system with an authorized break-in can its true level of vulnerability be determined.

One of the raids, on a farmhouse in central Java, was a full-blown siege, although in the aftermath only one body was recovered by the police — that of Mr. Ibrohim, according to the tests announced Wednesday.

Our oceans and lands are under full-scale siege.

During this period Srebrenica was under full-blown siege by Serbian forces and receiving supplies for its 40,000-odd residents on an airdrop-by-airdrop basis.