“under siege”造句，怎麼用under siege造句

In 2 Kings 7 we find an intriguing story about Samaria under siege.

Knoxville, Tenn., will soon be under siege by men in mirrored sunglasses lugging beer kegs and yelling "Wassup!"

Shashank Joshi, an associate fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, a British think-tank, says the capital is not hermetically sealed but is effectively under siege.

This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: On what are you basing your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?

Late last month, holed up in the Hotel du Golf in Abidjan where he had been under siege since the election by forces loyal to Mr Gbagbo, Mr Ouattara decided it was time to resort to his own forces.

In an ironic coda to Big Bang, which saw the stock-exchange' s member firms gobbled up by foreign owners, the LSE— since2001 a listed company itself— is under siege from NASDAQ, an American exchange, which already owns25% of its shares.

The city held out for six months under siege.

Despite the once successful Save the Rhino project, rhinos are under siege.

Well into this dark night in Iceland's history, parliament remained under siege, and the vigil resumed this morning.

"Usually suspended by ropes from the roof of a movable shed, the timber was swung Back and forth by its operators so that it Banged against the structure under siege."

armed capture of a place under siege

While trading operations have revived earnings, the brokerage business remains under siege.

Haute couture, what remains of it, is a little like a fragile ecosystem under siege by modern tastes and habits, and by couturiers who are stuck in the past.

For the next two days the city felt as if it were under siege. Rocks and dustbins blocked many of the roads.

Now it is Finkelstein's theory that is under siege.