Sentence examples for on a siege from inspiring English sources

To do that, he had to exercise stronger controls because he did not have "the unrivalled prestige Ataturk had won...The approach of the [second] world war brought on a siege mentality and a siege economy".Thus Turkey turned inwards for decades, its leaders fiercely determined to preserve the work-in-progress that Ataturk had left them in 1938.

Some of its people see the intervention force purely as a deterrent to ensure that the rebels never again embark on a siege of Goma.

Yes there were bottles being flung about, but there were also rows of officers in full riot gear, as though closing in on a siege.

McClellan's plan for a rapid seizure of Yorktown was foiled when he discovered that the Confederates had fortified a line across the Peninsula, causing him to decide on a siege of the city, which required considerable preparation.

Overnight on Wednesday, the government poured reinforcements into important positions in the capital, and anxious residents stocked up on staples in anticipation of a siege.

The nation's mid-year economic outlook was delayed on Monday due to a siege situation in Sydney.

The British dug in for a siege but, on the night of August 29 30, Washington evacuated the entire army to Manhattan without the loss of supplies or a single life.

Then on Friday, a siege at a kosher supermarket, four hostages confirmed dead, the murderers apparently linked to those behind Wednesday's carnage.

"The American insistence on coming and having a siege on a couple of million people in one area and striking them with warplanes and shelling them randomly — many innocent people will be killed through this operation," Mr. Qumi said.

From here on, we are in a siege movie.

Nearly 60 people had died on Sunday night in a siege on a Syrian Catholic church not far from Mr. Laith's shop.