Sentence examples for under siege to from inspiring English sources

The actress now playing the abused, confused Laura was under siege to "look perky".

They would send a half-dozen outgunned commandos into a city under siege to take it back?

In modern times, the Catholic Church has been under siege to an unprecedented degree, as much by internal rifts and abuses as by unbelief and competing Protestant sects.

That's because Lear himself is unmatched as a portrait of a forceful, commanding personality under siege to the destructiveness of age.

They climbed onto trucks, loaded weapons and accelerated away, barreling through darkness on nearly deserted roads toward a city under siege, to reclaim one of their own.

In the meantime, Israel, Egypt and the international community have put Gaza under siege to isolate and weaken Hamas, ideally leading to its overthrow or collapse.

There are a lot of war references in it, a lot of references to a country under siege and to a wasteland left behind".

More than 250,000 people are estimated to be living under siege, according to the most recent report by a U.N. independent commission of inquiry on Syria.

The measure "was clearly an attempt to put the entire Latino community under siege, and to a certain extent it has succeeded," Mr. Gutierrez said.

The ability to adequately treat infectious diseases is increasingly under siege due to the emergence of drug-resistant microorganisms.

On Tuesday, at least several hundred civilians were allowed to leave Muadhamiya, where rebel forces remain under siege, according to various reports.