Sentence examples for siege includes from inspiring English sources

The middle of the June 1 lead New York Times story on the Israeli attack against the flotilla attempting to deliver aid to Gaza, in defiance of the Israeli blockade or economic siege, includes a brief paragraph stating that the blockade was imposed as a response to the "takeover [of Gaza] by force in 2007" by Hamas, "an organization sworn to Israel's destruction".

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

How will I take care of my family?" The ship's cabins, meanwhile, held many wounded Libyans evacuated from the siege, including four recent amputees.

At a meeting with diplomats in Jerusalem, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was peppered with questions about the purpose of the siege, including pointed queries from the American ambassador, Daniel C. Kurtzer.

Meanwhile leaders from around the world had expressed their concern over the siege, including Stephen Harper, the prime minister of Canada, which suffered an attack on its parliament by a suspected jihadist sympathizer in October.

"It beggars belief that many of the failures that were witnessed during the [2013] Westgate [shopping mall] siege – including the late deployment of specialised police – were repeated in Garissa," the paper said in a strongly worded editorial.

Twenty two people died in the siege, including the two attackers.

Twenty two people died in the siege, including several Americans.

Attorney Jim Frantz, whose firm the Frantz Law Group represents more than 1,100 claims tied to the October fire siege, including hundreds from the Tubbs fire, disputed the utility's conclusion.

The U.N. estimates almost half a million Syrians are living under siege, including in towns like Madaya and Moadimayet al-Sham, where dozens have died of starvation or from lack of access to medical care.

Three people were killed during the siege, including two civilians and a police officer identified as 44-year-old Garrett Swasey, a six-year veteran of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Police Department.