Sentence examples for permanent siege from inspiring English sources

Certainly Castro felt himself under permanent siege, in an ongoing state of war, and this inescapably constricted his policy choices.

This week workers were constructing sturdier defences in the forecourt of the building, but there is a sense that all institutions critical of Mr Erdogan are under permanent siege.

The only thing which prevents the Sangin base being accurately described as in a state of permanent siege is that troops are able to come and go from the compound.

Xiao Shao, the hero of this tale of gay life and loss in Taiwan, reflects on pop culture, mortality and his alienation from a country under permanent siege as he mourns the death of a childhood friend from AIDS.

"The terrorists would like to carry their war into our cities and into our heads, to create a kind of permanent siege, to force their perverse logic of violence and hatred on us", the social democrat politician said.

Armed with walkie-talkies and body cameras, they guide women through a gauntlet of demonstrators who are hurling abuse and waving plastic foetuses outside the only clinic in the UK under permanent siege from anti-abortionists.

"In this film we will try to find the man behind the gangster stereotype and understand the challenges he faced as a young black man from Tottenham's Broadwater Farm Estate, an area which has lived in a state of semi-permanent siege since the murder of PC Keith Blakelock in 1985".

Until Israelis and Palestinians recognize the logical consequences of this simple fact, we will all live in a permanent state of siege — Gaza under an Israeli siege, Israel under an international and Arab siege.

These alleged tactics have left the black community of Madison "under a permanent state of siege," the suit says.

The successful British siege marked the beginning of permanent British control over the peninsular portion of Acadia, which they renamed Nova Scotia, and it was the first time the British took and held a French colonial possession.

The eight agencies call for all parties to the conflict to end the siege of civilian areas and ensure permanent humanitarian access.