Sentence examples for population under siege from inspiring English sources

Is it logical to tell a population under siege what they should or should not accept?

"They are not that different, we have many of the same circumstances, a population under siege," Sarah Leah Whitson, director of Human Rights Watch's Middle East and North Africa program, told VICE News.

Any such initiative must include resources to pursue war-crimes charges against the perpetrators of hospital bombings, as well as against government actors who deny access to food assistance to populations under siege.

The importance of balanced protein-calorie malnutrition in early life has been studied in two natural experiments based on the starvation experience of populations under siege in the second world war (Dutch and Leningrad studies) and one small randomised controlled trial of supplemental nutrition from Guatemala.

All 29 schools in Yarmouk, whose population is under siege and where many are starving, are closed.

Over 16,000 people from minority populations remain under siege in enclaves surrounded by armed groups.

Many Emiratis - who number perhaps less than 10percentnt of the expat-dominated population - feel under siege.

The Israeli closing of Gaza has added markedly to the difficulty of daily life here, with long lines for cooking gas and a sense across the population of being under siege.

A city-commissioned study from earlier this year, found that many people of color in Pasadena — a city of roughly 140,000 where African Americans make up 11% of the population —  reported feeling "under siege in their neighborhoods" and alienated from police. .

Many civilian casualties have been caused by what Human Rights Watch has termed "the abusive and disproportionate use of force", where the populations of towns under siege have been left without food, water, electricity and medical help and 200,000 people have been forced to leave their homes.

As a result of the changes, as well as plans to continue allowing logging of native forests, a recent report by the National Parks Association said endangered koala populations in NSW were "under siege".