Sentence examples for siege designed from inspiring English sources

Diplomatic relations between Russia and Turkey, backers respectively of the regime and rebels in Syria's civil war, also worsened with Moscow accusing Turkey of preparing to invade Syria and the Turkish Prime Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, claiming that Russian air strikes were paving the way for a siege designed to starve Aleppo, once the most populous city in Syria.

A scarily brilliant mastermind who calls himself the Professor assembles a group of highly capable thieves and plans an elaborate siege designed to take place over several days, which includes essential tasks for the dozens of hostages and a vow that no one will be hurt.

The Texas billionaire (ranked No. 209 on the Forbes 400 Richest Americans list) attempted to drive them out of the company in successive sieges designed to usurp the entire board, an assemblage including the colorfully loquacious and often zany Senator Alfonse D'Amato Alfonse D'Amato.

Though no warrior himself, he was adept at planning sieges and designing siege engines.

Valletta, today the nation's capital, was built after the lifting of that siege and was designed to be an impregnable fortress.

The Legal Services Act 2007 was the culmination of a process designed to lay siege to what was perceived to be the last citadel of the powers privilege and pretension of a special interest group, the legal profession.

The Johnson models, fortresses designed to withstand a siege of litigation, had triumphed.

Security officials say government forces are gearing up for an operation designed to break the siege.

This spoke not only of their impregnability, but also of their ample storage, designed to survive years of siege.

These abandoned defensible curtain walls for a fortified refuge, designed to outlast a raid, rather than a sustained siege.

Two neighbouring siege castles were built by Stephen as part of these operations, designed to contain Worcester Castle itself, one at Henwick Hill the other at Red Hill.