Sentence examples for primary siege from inspiring English sources

At the beginning of the primary siege, said Loraine Fulgham, she sat down and read the mailings from candidates -- particularly if the names on the outside were unfamiliar.

His primary objective was the raising of the siege of Stirling Castle.

Alan Sandals, a pension lawyer challenging Mr. Casey for the Democratic nomination in the May 16 primary, has argued that abortion rights are under siege and that the party must not waver in its defense.

Scholars disagree on the primary reason for Assyria's abandonment of their siege on Jerusalem.

And to hear him describe the siege of Leningrad, you might think bread was the primary motive for conflict.

Despite an injury siege that has knocked out many of the Braves' primary players, they have remained in the vicinity of first place in the National League East, and Estrada is a major reason.

Roseby's comments are particularly unhelpful at a time when all arts subjects are under siege in secondary schools and are even being squeezed out of primary schools.

Composed about (and partly in) Leningrad during the Nazi siege in 1941, it is an overtly programmatic score, couched in primary colors and evoking struggle, perseverance and ultimate triumph.

might be under siege from within her own party, with the announcement on Monday that she will face a primary challenger for her Senate seat in 2010.

However, Hezbollah's early primary focus was ending Israel's 18-year-long occupation of southern Lebanon following Israel's 1982 invasion and siege of Beirut.

Frankopan goes further, showing that the Crusade's primary military targets in Asia Minor - Nicaea and Antioch - required large numbers of men with experience of siege warfare; precisely the sort recruited by Urban during his preaching in France in 1095-6.