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Even today, people holed up in windowless offices before glowing computer screens may not see their fellows for the better part of each day.

The enemy was holed up in a few isolated strongholds.

Are they willing to feed and sustain Libyans holed up in those areas through such a prolonged stalemate?

By the next evening, the conspirators were holed-up in an engine house.

Meanwhile, a defiant Mr Gbagbo, holed up in the presidential palace a stone's throw away from his rival, clings tenaciously to power.

Just as I expected, he was holed up in his room, refusing to even talk to his family members.

The Brits, holed up in a Benghazi hotel compound with one of the generals, are trying to help with that.

She also holed up in her bedroom with a 12-gauge shotgun and a pistol, while she put a bottle in her three-month-old son's mouth.

The enemy was holed up in a few isolated strong-holds.

After the bank robbery, the criminals holed up in a disused factory.

After a day's motoring, John found a room for rent and holed up in the house.

The army will have nothing of it, so former Maoist fighters are still holed up in United Nations-supervised cantonments.

If you're under siege and holed up in a relatively safe place, be wary of anyone urging you to make a run for it.

I actually found myself asking this question a lot while writing this book, holed up in my office in front of a computer for a year.

By the time he and I dueled, he had been retired and holed up in that dungeon of his for decades.

He spent evenings holed up in his bedroom writing his own programs.

Another bad hit, and the UN, holed up in its fortresses, will wonder about being in the country in any numbers at all.

The ousted president, who has been holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa for ten weeks, called for a boycott.

Gunmen are holed up in a high-rise building overlooking the city centre, exchanging gunfire with police.

But in Mingora the Taliban still rule the roost, standing eyeball to eyeball with soldiers holed up in government buildings.

They said they were well-supplied with money and arms by their leaders holed up in Pakistan.

Indian commandos are still battling militants holed up in a hotel in Mumbai.

She's holed up in her penthouse apartment.

Rescuers are drilling three shafts to the part of the mine where the men are holed up and then plan to hoist them up.

It is not just Osama bin Laden who has been holed up in remote exile. His ideology of global jihad has also retreated.

Each evening they holed up in separate rooms of their home reading or watching TV alone.

The Ahmar family have around 400 men holed up in Sana'a in a gothic-style mansion, pockmarked with bullets and crammed with ammunition.

LL: Well, if you have to be holed up somewhere, your apartment is a pretty good place. At least it is comfortable.

Not only does it contribute to depression, but if you're holed up all by yourself, people who might have job leads will forget you're there.

Mr Zelaya is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa, the capital.

He holed up inside the house and begged his wife to hide him whenever he heard a siren go by.

A month after that, we were holed up in his family's home near campus.

By all accounts, for the past five years he has been holed up in the leafy environs of Abbottabad, without phone or e-mail.

He has been holed up in the commercial capital, Abidjan; Mr Gbagbo has defiantly dug in there too.

The gang (was) holed up in the mountains somewhere.

Suresh Kalmadi, a major figure in the governing Congress Party, is holed up in Jail 4.

He is still safe as a guest at the Brazilian embassy, where he holed up after sneaking into the country a month ago.

She is like awounded beast, holed up in her cave, terrified of taking even one step out intothe night.

The killer was still holed up in the city.

President Gbagbo is holed up inside the fortress-like presidential mansion with his last remaining allies and the Republican Guard.

Days after most of their classmates left for home, Mr. Liu and Ms. Li were still holed up last week in their classrooms.

Groups of hotel guests and staff remained holed up throughout the Taj, parts of which were on fire.

Holed up in his room.

Later, Christina regains consciousness at the apartment where the duo are holed up.

It will take three to four months for a 30-ton drill to gouge a 2, 200-foot tunnel down to the chamber where the men are holed up.

The dawn assault on the fortified camp was methodical, and met only scattered resistance from gunmen holed up inside.

On Monday Mr Abhisit rejected their calls from the army barracks where he was holed up, fearful for his security.

Pursued by arrest warrants, the runaways holed up at an Oklahoma motel, offering visiting reporters interviews, cigars and whisky.

The government said it retook control of the rebellious central town of Rastan Sunday after hunting down "armed terrorists" holed up inside.

Most hated going out alone and preferred to stay holed up at home to avoid sneers from their peers.

A group of armed antiregime protesters remain holed up inside the important oil city.

Chris holed up with Michael, teaching him how to bait the hook and cast the line.

This is the cottage where the bandits once holed up.

Companies are groups of people and in order to thrive they need to spend an inordinately large amount of time holed up together.

Or is he holed up in some secret bunker deep beneath Tripoli?

Instead, we're holed up in this closet until he leaves. I thought you said he wouldn't be home until 6:

One more ailing ex-terrorist holed up in a ratty house in remote Pakistan, watching old videos of himself;

She holed up with her hanDlers and family in a just built apartment complex in the working class suburb of Bankstown

There are these memories of people that go for days and days and days holed up inside of their little ranch houses,