Sentence examples for siege policy from inspiring English sources

Israel wants to deflect attention from the siege policy by depicting the organizers as terrorists and their campaign as a mission to help arm Hamas.

"A lot of these industries that you could rely on to produce and generate some independent dynamism for the economy have also suffered because of the siege policy," Munayyer said.

That year, she cast the swing vote to remove Chancellor Fernandez, who came under siege for his policy of distributing condoms to high school students, and for his support for the Children of the Rainbow curriculum, which some saw as endorsing homosexuality.

About 100 Israeli 12th graders, they informed us, had signed the 2008 Shministim letter, a document that spelled out their reasons for refusing military service including "Israeli 'defense' methods at checkpoints, 'targeted' killing, roads for Jews only, sieges, land seizure policy which annexes occupied territories into Israel and trampling on Palestinian human rights..

By a ruthless policy of siege and assassination, Cesare brought the north of Italy under his control; he conquered the duchies of Romagna, Umbria, and Emilia and earned the admiration of Niccolò Machiavelli, who used Cesare as the model for his classic on politics, The Prince.

Galvanized by Trump's threat to liberty, they rapidly assembled legal theories and commenced a still unbroken siege of Trump's bigoted policy.

The Aleppo campaign was marked with great brutality, particularly in the last few months when pro-government forces placed the eastern rebel-held districts under siege and pursued a relentless policy of aerial bombardment that deployed weapons such as bunker-buster bombs and phosphorus.

That policy came under siege from the Koch brothers who, through Americans for Prosperity, indirectly supported school board candidates who campaigned on reversing the busing for diversity program.

When institutions such as the vote, the courts, labor standards, anti-discrimination laws, regulations against monopoly power and reckless finance, and anti-poverty policies are under siege, a significant swath of the public, and particularly nonwhites and those with low incomes, has little recourse against the actions of those who would disenfranchise them.

The latest siege is an expansion of the closure policy that restricts Palestinian movement, a policy that has been in effect since 1993.

If a new regime were to do nothing more than open its border to Gaza Mohamed ElBaradei, for one, says the siege should be lifted American and Israeli policy towards the Palestinians would be severely disrupted.