Sentence examples for of a growing siege from inspiring English sources

But the overriding impression was one of a growing siege mentality – a circling of the wagons.

But an even greater unilateralism, even a growing siege mentality, is to be avoided at all costs.

The siege has led to fears of a growing humanitarian emergency, with the International Committee of the Red Cross warning that thousands of civilians are trapped inside Qusayr, including many who are wounded and without access to medical care.

There is a growing sense of siege in the Hazara community here.

We feel in this country a growing feeling of siege mentality.

The Williamsburg of a hard-core group of New Yorkers, of course, who have come under siege by a growing army of upper-middle-class invaders.

However limited the Israeli action, the debate on loosening Mr. Arafat's bonds reflected a growing sense in at least part of the Israeli government that the siege was leading nowhere.

By mid-October a growing revolutionary army, initially commanded by Austin, had begun the siege of San Antonio.

Affable thirtysomething-founder Neno grew up during the Bosnian war and recounts his memories of growing up under siege with verve and black humour.

Here in California, their sense of siege grew more intense in September when Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law banning use of widely discredited sexual "conversion therapies" for minors — an assault on their own validity, some ex-gay men feel.

The speed and passion behind the bishops' response reflects their growing sense of siege, and their belief that the space the Catholic church once occupied in American society and the deference it was given are gradually being curtailed by an increasingly secular culture.