Sentence examples for siege means from inspiring English sources

The siege means there is nowhere for them to escape".

An elaborate television campaign that showed a Santa Claus under siege, meant to introduce a Sony Web site, has been canceled before the commercials ever ran.

A good day under siege meant I was given an expired can of food with worms in it.

Furthermore, the long siege meant that the Continental Army had to move on Quebec City with winter setting in, and with many enlistments nearing expiration at year's end.

The Prussians destroyed captured forts instead of using them for their own defence, so the end of successful sieges meant that large Prussian forces did not have to stay near their home and were then free to operate in other parts of Prussia, raiding the Culmerland and Kuyavia.

The collective post-9/11 siege mentality means we seem to have jettisoned the Geneva conventions.

He is one of the founders of a proclaimed "popular campaign for security in the buffer zone" that seeks to crack Israel's siege wall by means of peaceful protest.Week after week his followers march into the 300-metre-wide perimeter zone which Israel declared off-limits after last year's assault on Gaza.

Ukrainian officials stated that this meant siege of their forces inside Crimea would be lifted until that date.

The fact that most members of Koresh's group chose not to leave during the siege does not mean that they were less cultlike — just the opposite.

The rebel victory in Ramouseh, while technically ending the siege, does not mean there will be immediate relief for residents of east Aleppo.

"When we say lift the siege, what we mean is that everyone in every neighborhood could get to work and everyone would make money, and then those people would go shopping," said Nabil Abu Muaileq, chairman of the Palestinian Contractor's Union, which represents more than 300 companies in Gaza.