Sentence examples for siege about from inspiring English sources

An estimated 330 people died in the siege, about half of them children.

On Monday, on the third day of what would prove to be a four-day siege, about a hundred and fifty people made their way across uncharacteristically empty roads to Nairobi's National Museum.

Under siege about his league, David Stern was told at a news conference that Elvin Hayes, who coached in the game between rookies and second-year players, had called the league's young players immature.

In 1887 she published a novel, Taken by Siege, about literary life in New York.

In a surprise result, declared at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Patchett beat the two favourites - Sarah Waters's London crime novel Fingersmith, ranked by bookies William Hill at 2-1, and He len Dunmore's The Siege, about the battle for Leningrad, which was given odds of 5-2.

Now it seems clear that the siege was about more than disabling the plant, and that holding hostages for ransom was not part of the plan.

This is what the siege is all about," Delattre told reporters before the meeting.

Singapore has a siege mentality about disease, much as it does about other security issues, because it exists in a microbiologically turbulent region.

More than 10,000 people died in Sarajevo during the siege, including about 1,500 children.

The siege began about 3 P.M. on Thursday, after undercover detectives began a stakeout of the 18-unit apartment building.

By the end of the siege, only about 40,000 east Aleppians were still living there, of a pre-war population of about 1 million.