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Today they are all besieged and threatened with summary execution.

They were blockaded, and all but Veracruz surrendered.

One plan is to starve them into submission.

The besieged endured three weeks of the Siege of Cawnpore with little water or food, suffering continuous casualties to men, women and children.

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For the past 6 months, the people of Madaya have been living under siege.

To be sure, we are besieged by a relentless aggressor.

Besieged by Communists or Islamists, people feel a sense of belonging.

Inside the city, the Serbs controlled most of the major military positions and the supply of arms.

Fighting has also arrived in Damascus, encircling the main centers of power.

And in Iraq, Sunni Muslims feel under siege from the country s majority and now ruling Shia.

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The asseiged had barricaded the door and, from the beginning, taking it would be difficult.

ISIS claims it is there to help the besieged refugees of Yarmouk Camp.

According to a witness, Robert Lajugie, from the surrender of the besieged, I saw the bodies of the victims.

His sympathizers glorify Chávez as a defender of the poor besieged by a selfish, coup plotting elite.

We do not need to create even more paperwork and administrative hassle for already beleaguered farmers.

Charles of Blois and Bertrand du Guesclin came to the rescue of the besieged city but were decisively defeated at the Battle of Auray on 29 September 1364.

A yr after the world's inaction for these thousands starving in besieged Yarmouk, Isis has entered the camp. Syria pic.twitter.com tUWFAww4HF The Syria Campaign ( TheSyriaCmpgn) April 1, 2015

If they are besieged, bombed and murdered, how will the earth be made salty again?

Two years later, children in southern Damascus are eating crumbs off the street as they starve under siege.

During the summer, Coligny had secretly dispatched a number of troops to help the Protestants in Mons, who were now besieged by the Duke of Alba.

Six months and Assad militia used all kinds of explosives and missiles to destroy the besieged neighborhoods of Homs.

She saw the vol au vent blockaded behind a bush, besieged, going to swell the bellies of the three thousand wretches who were asking for bread.

During the Russo Japanese War, he participated in the siege of Port Arthur, where he lost his left arm to shrapnel.

The police's extreme reaction towards the protesters has left Afghans living in one of the most insecure cities in the world feeling besieged.

Creativity and wit are helping the people under siege to resist the policy of starvation that the regime is imposing on them. But even the scarce ingredients they have managed to find are running out.

Even though the author praised modern Turkish Istanbul as a cosmopolitan tourist hot spot, this extensive article described the event mainly from the viewpoint of the besieged Christians.

What Christ is being born among us today, when all the brothers about whom he will question us on judgment day are besieged, trapped and killed in the camps?

The winter, which has already begun in the besieged cities and villages, threatens people with famine and death from cold.

The siege lasted around two months until at the end of March two ships arrived and brought food that would permit the siege to continue for a much longer time.

Aware of your country apos s struggle for human rights, I strongly urge you to do everything possible in order to save the besieged residents of Sarajevo.

In that regard, the participants in the London Conference had recognized that besieged towns and villages could no doubt be regarded as concentration camps.

Genovese Governor Felice Pinelli, elected on 1 April 1728, learns that Farinole, Patrimonio, Saint Florent, and Algajola are besieged and that Corte and Rogliano have fallen into the hands of the Corsicans.

The MRF will benefit its hundreds of thousands of supporters will once again feel threatened and under siege, and the party ranks will be brought into line for the upcoming elections.

If they do, Greece s brave, beleaguered citizens can at least take comfort in knowing that many people elsewhere will be spared the same unnecessary sacrifices.

The most ferocious fighting is still concentrated around the provincial capitals of Kuito Bié and Menongue, respectively, which have been besieged by UNITA for more than eight months.

For the last 7 years, the people of Gaza have been living under an illegal Israeli siege with devastating restrictions on the movement of people and the flow of food, fuel, and all other critical materials.

It seemed as if the violent storm had produced a truce between the besiegers and the besieged, and that the cannon were silenced by the louder detonations of the storm.

Renzi has also offered austerity beleaguered citizens short term palliatives, such as a tax cut that gives an extra 80 ( 109) to Italy s lowest earners.

This will be destined for all civilian victims of the events, although the House is well aware of the difficulties of getting relief supplies of food and medicine into the besieged camps.

VAN DER LEK (ARC). (NL) Mr President, the dreadful situation of the Palestinian refugees in the camps in the Lebanon shocked the whole world. For years these people have been victims of the hopeless conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians.

Cyrus Harding evidently could not resist fifty ruffians, all well armed, who, either by penetrating by main force into Granite House, or by starving out the besieged, could obtain from them what they wanted.