Hassan Nasrallah

The real danger to the world's resistance movements is the attempt to distort reality and to place the blame on the resistance groups' actions without allowing them to portray their perspective, thus ignoring the reality of the occupation and the siege, like the situation in occupied Palestine.

Lebanese Revolutionary

Susan L. Taylor

We don't have time to waste. Our communities are crumbling; our children are under siege. Failing schools and a for-profit prison-industrial complex are sucking the life out of black homes and communities. We are not going down like this!

American Editor

Lionel Richie

Exactly when people are in turmoil is the time that the entertainment business has always been at its best. Because people don't want to be reminded every day that they are under siege, or that they're not having a great time of life.

American Musician

Gareth Southgate

The players can associate playing for England with enjoyment, fun, and not being under siege and feeling everything is against them. There's an energy and a connection back. That's important in the short, mid, and long term as well.

English Athlete

Ismail Haniyeh

The liberals and free people of the world will not like to see the Palestinian people living under siege. We have received indications from the international community that they will not stop their aid.

Palestinian Politician

Jasmila Zbanic

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.

Bosniak Director

Mauricio Macri

The world is under siege, in conflict, but it is enthusiastic about Argentina.

Argentinian Statesman

Haris Pasovic

Art is a primal need - even under siege, especially under siege.

Theodore C. Sorensen

We remain essentially a nation under siege.

American Lawyer

Noam Chomsky

American Activist

Used to describe strategic military encirclements in historical or current events.

Warfare Term

Indicates a scenario with a high level of intensity and struggle.

Intensity

Can be used metaphorically for situations that feel like being trapped or surrounded.

Not Literal

Figuratively represents personal challenges or persistent problems.

Personal Struggles

Extends to social and emotional contexts, implying persistent stress.

Extended Use

Used in modern settings to describe relentless or ongoing issues.

Contemporary Problems

Relates to a significant and continuous attack of illness on a person.

Health Crisis

Gives a dated or old-fashioned tone to discussions about health.

Archaic Tone

 said he thought his speech should have been more substantive and more truly authentic and I would say no I really thought it was and and then he said well what did you really think this speech was about and I said well I was just watching a siege and I thought it seems so great and then I just was noticing

What I learned at...

 that lived through that siege, and I say I have the honor and the privilege of being there because it's taught me everything, not just about being a reporter, but about being a human being. I learned about compassion. I learned about ordinary people who could be heroes.

Janine di Giovanni: What...

 this field has been under siege politically and financially. Critical research is being challenged instead of supported, and we saw that it was really essential to have private safe haven laboratories where this work could be advanced without interference.

Susan Solomon: The...

 The siege of Baghdad laid bare a longstanding for centuries, the caliphs had ruled mostly symbolically. Local leaders throughout the empire had grown more powerful, and they refused to pay taxes, spending the money on their own courts instead.

The rise and fall of the...

 while a war raged on cities were under siege hundreds of people fled to shelter at an international peacekeepers base they protected the civilians as celica and anti-balaka forces traded fire next morning we were told that more than

Inside a Civil War Most...

 Terrorists are doing this. A search engine can determine who shall live and who shall die. This is the world that we live in. During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that

Marc Goodman: A vision...

 His was a strict understanding of justice." "Multiple accounts show his army's brutality going beyond ripping unborn children from mothers' wombs, using prisoners as human shields, or moat fillers to support siege engines,

History vs. Genghis Khan...

 researchers documented that people whose mothers were pregnant during the siege have more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease in later life than individuals who were gestated under normal conditions.

Annie Murphy Paul: What...

 actually got a very distinctive profile there are two clusters of skyscrapers with much lower buildings in the middle this is a direct result of the a siege

Manhattan Island PIPE Earth...

 And not all of them are bad. I love my country, despite the terrible situation we live in -- siege, poverty, unemployment -- but there is life.

Siege

Warfare Term

Intensity

Not Literal

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