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poet's paper; and the siege of the town, with the tragedies of the wooden horse, were all but a piece of poetry.

In the court, Dick found a part of the garrison, busy with preparations for defence, and gloomily discussing the chances of a siege.

you may cut down trees that you know are not fruit trees and use them to build siege works until the city at war with you falls.

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

For the next two days the city felt as if it were under siege.

With economies around the world under siege, it could be at least a year before any of his fiscal policies dramatically affect stocks.

Out of the dull loneliness of siege, the stroll in the fresh nature of space, bathed in the New Year sun and breeze.

Foam mattresses are piled against the walls and the children have not seen the light of day since the siege began on February 4.

"If it is under siege for a long time that country's currency gets destroyed, so gold in that country's currency will take off, " he said.

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.

Prior to the Soviet siege of Stalingrad, the German supply disruptions, and then the heat of battle, only a few ounces of bread a day.

None of this would matter quite so much if the country were secure, but Iraq is still under siege.

A siege of the city of the enemy, the city residents to get together to discuss common fight against the enemy's approach.

He said businesses and consumers alike were struggling to contend with tumultuous markets and a financial-services industry under siege.

The country was in a state of siege, and tanks were lined up in front of the Presidential palace.

The Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years.

Soon after the siege, Wallace decided to move with his wife and the collection to London.

Wallace guarded the collection throughout the siege of Paris and the uprising that followed, and he gave millions to help survivors.

Although some gangsters escaped the siege via storm-water drains, others are reported to have been ferried out in police cars.

Egypt's president, Hosni Mubarak, was annoyed but ordered his troops to let them in, saying they were "starving due to an Israeli siege" .

The general's own men were falling sick through continued hardship , so he gave the order to raise the siege on the beleaguered city .

As the boat comes to a stop at last, you find yourself in a town under siege.

This quarter seemed to have been singled out for punishment during the second siege.

They watched over the powder-blue synagogue - just a 10-minute walk from the Taj Mahal Hotel, where the siege had ended.

Lost the elephant has lost salt groups of young people driven to distraction in the back, spoke of the siege lay it out.

Freshwater animals are under siege all over the planet, and the species-rich Southeast is no exception.

In the Russian republic of North Ossetia, the only man to go on trial for the Beslan school siege, has been giving evidence in court.

The communications minister said the military assault force sent to end the siege had first sought a peaceful end.

This weekend many were shot after trying to break the siege to bring supplies.

A heavy beam used in ancient warfare to batter down the walls and gates of a place under siege.

Correction of a bug that sometimes, during a siege, crashes all the clients of one of the two teams.

Gather up your belongings to leave the land, you who live under siege.

Perhaps the oddest thing about Muhammad was his phone call to Al Jazeera on Sunday, as rebels began to lay siege to Tripoli.

Log cottages are sinking into a soil which gives up evidence of the siege: cannon shot, wooden shovels, barley blackened by fire.

When he rode from Bracken's siege camp to the gates of Raventree, Peck went before him with a peace banner.

They told me that at the end of the second week of the siege the US troops swept through the Jolan.

Car makers are under siege and vilified for taking the company jet to a mandated government performance .

The city has been under siege for weeks, but Gaddafi loyalists have continued to offer fierce resistance.

It is suffering from a four year old siege, the destruction from Israel's war and now a continued siege, with no sign of any real abatement.

It has burrowed its way out of Israel's siege, with a web of tunnels from Gaza into Egypt.

In the West, Grant was bogged down in his protracted siege of Vicksburg.

Another swarmed through a shopping mall throwing grenades, triggering a siege that ended with the building engulfed in flames.

Freshwater animals are under siege all over theplanet, and the species-rich Southeast is no exception.

But after a year's siege, they surrendered with only 40 out of 900 alive. A handful joined the Manchus as mercenaries.

In Gaza, Jamal al Khudari, who heads the Palestinian Committee for Lifting the Siege, said the destination is clear.

Ylaya: If I had known the rebels had such charm the siege would have been raised more rapidly. But what of Isabel's fanatical troops?

Lott Dod was the Trade Federation representative in the Galactic Senate during the events of the siege of Naboo.

Which isn't to say that men aren't susceptible to disease, but I don't know that they live in a permanent state of health-siege like we do.

Log cottagesaresinking into a soil which gives up evidence of the siege: cannon shot, wooden shovels, barley blackened by fire.

There was no massacre at Srebrenica, nor even a siege of Sarajevo.

Those men, best represented in my view by Tokyo's governor, Shintaro Ishihara, speak as if they are under siege.

My master is about to lay siege to one of our enemies$ castles.

This will power down the enemy unit for 10 seconds, from which you can lay heavy siege upon it.

It would be the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare.

The city has been under government siege for the last seven weeks, leading to a growing humanitarian crisis.

In recent months, people in Gaza believe the international community began to direct its attention elsewhere, neglecting the siege of Gaza.

"It could have ended Misrata's siege many days ago, " he said.

My noblemen are adorning their armour. Soon they will be ready to SIEGE .

The couple began to feel 'under siege' and unsafe in their own home.

Many Indians suffer from a siege mentality, believing that China is out to encircle it by building alliances with Pakistan and Nepal.

One is a love letter written by a boy to a girl he met in a convoy of vehicles while being evacuated from Sarajevo under siege in 1992.

"Today, I can tell you that feel kind of good, " said Zlatko Lagumdzija, a former Bosnian prime minister wounded during the siege.

At a time when the party is already under siege over Iraq, failure to win credit for economic growth could prove costly.

Hamburg's government is laying siege to a noble and ambitious idea of education that is still possible within the state school system.

The conflict included the Srebrenica massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and a deadly, 44-month siege of Sarajevo.

Even as the death-toll from the protests approaches 600, demonstrators in a dozen other towns have rallied to break the siege of Deraa.

Eighteen months under siege had already drained hospitals of medicine and working equipment. Now fuel for the generators has nearly run out.

The architecture of a castle, a careful siege, and best tactics in the field are not a mystery to you.

However, after the siege, Boone was charged with treason since he had apparently lived quite happily among the Shawnees for months.

Soviet infantrymen move across snow-covered hills around Stalingrad, on their advance to lift the German siege of the city in early 1943.

Matthew Paris's description of Dover as the key to England was made in his account of the great siege of 1216.

Under siege, its monopoly is secure. There is, meanwhile, no mechanism to negotiate a way out of this impasse.

The siege of Gaza might not look like the siege of Stalingrad, but a siege it is.

Poison food: This reduces the amount of food stores a town or castle has for waiting out a siege.

But as the siege of the White House intensifies, his task gets ever harder.

Grant preferred a traditional approach in relation to military tactics, with a particular interest in siege warfare.

Gather up thy shame out of the land, thou that dwellest in a siege.

Our soldiers laid siege to the enemy fortress.

But after seven years of hounding by local youths, the siege became unbearable.

The council wants to persuade the authorities in Sirte, the colonel's birthplace, to surrender rather than submit to a lethal siege.

As the siege of the port intensified, he was given command of a naval gun battery.

We want a small set of light and unarmored ground units to perform better against siege tanks.

Then you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem with your arm bared and prophesy against it.

Before the siege he planned to open another factory, for chips. He travelled abroad, bought the machinery and shipped it to Israel.

After a prolonged siege, the town was rendered up to the insurgents.

Worse still, as David Cameron highlighted in Turkey, Gaza is totally separated from the rest of Palestine by a brutal siege.

At his siege of Argos in 272 BC, King Pyrrhus of Epirus flew upon his enemies.

Depicting a few weeks in the final year of the Greek siege of Troy, Homer's epic glitters with bronze spears and the blazing sun.

In Misrata, which withstood a three-month siege and is the country's third city, similarly sturdy groups have been formed.

But after a year's siege, they surrendered with only 40 out of 900 alive.

The only artillery that a siege works cannot produce are cannons, which require an entirely different specialist and workshop altogether.

The enemy didn't dare to attack him inside those sacred walls, and they finally got tired of the siege and left him alone.

People carry away a man injured in by a shell which fell near the television station during the siege, March, 1993.

Turn your face toward the siege of Jerusalem and with bared arm prophesy against her.

Some Gazans fear that Israeli merchants will sell cheap produce in Gaza, as they used to before the siege.

The siege golem is not as powerful as the Iron Dragon in melee combat, but much more efficient during sieges .

This helps explain why Chinese leaders act more like people under siege than like people on an expansionist warpath.

Mr Makhlouf and his circle, whose interests, bankers say, may account for a third of Syria's economy, are under sanctions siege.

Iraqi officials surveyed the aftermath of the siege at the Our Lady of Deliverance church, expressing shock at the extent of the carnage.

American Revolution (1781): the British under Cornwallis surrendered after a siege of three weeks by American and French troops.

The terrorist siege of Mumbai left more than 170 people dead, including at least 18 foreigners, at ten locations.

Many are exhausted by Israel's continuing siege, but fear they would be inviting attack inside and out if they laid down their arms.

While the War in Italy was at a Standstill, Marcellus lead his legions to Syracuse an put it under siege.

The comic starts with a image of how Gilneas was and then turns to the Forsaken now laying siege to the Greymane Wall.

Once, in the scar, simba entice good friends to the border of the elephant nana's expedition, by the graveyard of siege hyenas.

Soon the place would be under siege from other wives without husbands also looking for work.

Poles focus on the Warsaw uprising; Jews on Auschwitz; Russians on the siege of Leningrad; Ukrainians on the great famine.

For the siege to be successful it needed to be over quickly before the main Russian army arrived.

Those terms, particularly lifting the siege of opposition-held territories, would give the rebels a reprieve, if not a military advantage.

In the 12 months since the siege, two new schools have been built nearby to replace the devastated building.

This week hundreds of protesters laid siege to the United Nations' compound in Colombo, trapping staff inside for eight hours.

The southern town of Deraa, where the protests began, remains under siege, with telephone communications and transport cut off.

During the siege of Leningrad in 1941-44, the Russian defenders were reduced to living at a level hardly better than animals.

Presenter of the Year Award at the 2004 Royal Television Society awards for his live coverage of the Beslan siege .

Libyan shelling kept rebels under siege as coalition forces pounded pro-government targets from the air and sea on Thursday.

So he shut himself up in his castle, whose impregnable strength was such as defied a siege.

We had barely stepped out of our car in Canada's northern Yukon Territory when the siege began.

In recent weeks , financial services companies on three continents have been under siege from short- sellers .

The Gazans are in effect under siege, with intermittent water and electricity and patchy supplies of medicine and food.

I ask Valera about the man standing trial, the only hostage-taker the Russian authorities say survived the siege.

Rebel forces drove Qaddafi's troops back from Misrata last month, ending the suffocating siege of the strategically located city.

After a three-day siege, the hair-raising showdown on Nov. 29 led to the death of the remaining militants, albeit at significant human cost.

They engender resentment from without and a siege mentality from within.

Then he set to work laying siege to her with letters.

Public input tray again and again to set a siege of the method, Mozi again and again blocked him.

They have tightened their siege of Misrata, 210km (130 miles) to its east, and pushed into rebel strongholds along the coastline.

The siege also puts pressure on Hamas to become reconciled with Fatah and return to the umbrella of the Palestinian Authority.

Now worried shopping centre chiefs, fearing a repeat siege of Santa, have taken "drastic" measures, issuing him with abuilder-stylehard hat.

The terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and the siege of Thailand's main airport have reminded the world that Asia is anything but a safe haven.

Building a Stone Wall greatly improves a settlement's ability to resist siege weapons over a wooden equivalent.

In these two short weeks we here in Nanking have been through a siege; the Chinese army has left, defeated, and the Japanese has come in.

All this, though, was before the Greek sovereign debt crisis saw the eurozone under siege.

On the same day, the United Nations peacekeeping forces convoy was "a large group of people" under siege, a soldier was injured.

When leftists protested that the tax rises hit a people already burdened by siege, they were hauled to jail.

Early March 1453, Mohammed II siege mortar bombs began to arrive outside the city Constantinople.

Palestinian officials have been unable to move the students into concrete classes because of the stifling Israeli siege on the Gaza Strip.

No wonder there is a siege mentality in newsrooms around the land.

Regional and Western policymakers have tentatively hoped that intra-Palestinian reconciliation would end the siege.

Only capital ships and Siege frigates are able to bomb planets.

Egyptian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hossam Zaki told VOA Mr. Mubarak called for the lifting of the siege.

Grant had great respect for Imperial General Jan Dodonna, who was noted for his insights and tactics on siege warfare.

In Brussels, the headquarters of the European project for more than five decades, a siege mentality has taken hold.

The cardinal's remarks highlight a siege mentality that may comfort the pope, but does not answer his critics.

It is like the siege of Paris in the FrancoPrussian War, when even the mice and sparrows were taken for food.

Chiang-Nan seven strangely lay siege to, fly the poison pinprick of a day bat in my double eye.

Correction of a bug that sometimes freezes clients program in siege attack.

But on Fridays Homs feels like a city under siege. Yellow plastic signs, rocks and dustbins are set up as roadblocks.

The Bulgarian government has offered children who survived the siege holidays in its Black Sea resorts.

This is the dilemma of modern city living situation, but also in modern literature will be difficult to get out of a siege.

All basic siege units( Mortar Teams, Catapults , etc. ) have had their night sight increased to1100 from1000.

The Horde and Alliance will battle head-to-head for control of strategic resources to lay siege to the keeps of their opponents.

The fiction thriller "City Under Siege" , directed by Benny Chan and featuring Aaron Kwok and Fanny Shu, released thrilling stills.

Some Strongholds build Escape Tunnels for a quick retreat during a losing siege.

On the Israeli left, the Gaza siege has long been seen both as impolitic and morally indefensible.

The Swarm Guardian is similar to the original Guardian, acting as a flying long range siege unit.

By the time the siege ended , the citizens were nearly starving .

They surrounded both the Taj and the Oberoi complex and a prolonged siege began.

More than 300 adults and children were killed after terrorists took siege of a school in Beslan, Russia.

Qian my writing features like the "Siege" , because I admire his deep without explicit yelled curse.

The battalions held out for three months under siege.

Then Machabeus, and they that were with him, cheerfully laid siege to the fortress four days.

Li Xiangyang wit organized guerrilla siege once again, fear of losing the city from Li Zhuang Matsui finally turning back.

In one room, a teacher refused to open the door, unsure whether the siege was over. The police pushed it open.

Women standing on edge have two state of being: roaming about or defending against a siege .

It is meant to bombard players and buildings from a long distance, it's also equipped with a ram to siege buildings.

Among other things, it may well loosen the siege of Gaza, which Mr Mubarak's government tacitly enforced.

In "State of Play, " that kind of dogged journalism is under siege from owners who want a better return on their investment.

The siege, in which d' Aubusson was wounded three times, enhanced his renown throughout Europe.

After this gruesome tale the easing of the siege comes as an anticlimax.

The international investors who have put the eurozone under siege are placing two mutually supportive bets.

The Planetary Fortress's splash damage will not hurt friendly units but the splash damage of Siege Tanks still will.

The siege of the rebel army headquarters in Benghazi Western planes tanks and armored vehicles were hit.

But the proposal said government troops must first withdraw from cities they now control and end their siege of areas under rebel control.

The week-long airport siege cut off Bangkok's air links and wreaked havoc on Thailand's tourism industry and export-dependent economy.

When Menelaus learnt it, he was very angry and decided to lay a siege to[3] the city of Troy and get Helen back.

The siege is lost , but the war is far from over .

Even if Israel opens the crossings, some of the siege's harshest aspects will stay.

Laying siege to the Ashen Order's mountain fortress would be a waste of time and resources.

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

Draw water for the siege, strengthen your defenses! Work the clay, tread the mortar, repair the brickwork!

All basic siege units (Mortar Teams, Catapults, etc. ) have had their night sight increased to 1100 from 1000.

Last week, hungry residents at one camp laid siege to a truck delivering grain and began carting away sacks of food.

He didn't figure in any of the battle scenes, being a guy who hated war, amid he wasn't in the toughest of the siege of Atlanta shots.

With his close friend Adar Tallon, Dodonna wrote the book on starship combat and siege tactics.

Win Isle of Conquest while controlling the Cobalt Mine, Oil Refinery, Shipyard, Siege Workshop and Zeppelin Base.

The Americans say they do accept this. But they have also led an international boycott and economic siege of the new government.

The city of Misurata is enduring a medieval siege, as Qaddafi tries to strangle its population into submission.

Some have predicted another siege of parliamentary maneuvering in order to delay adoption of these improvements.

fierce shot bloodthirsty killers , to break the siege.

Soviet troops launch a major counter-offensive in the Leningrad area, breaking the siege and taking Shlisselburg.

Colonel van Cortlandt was promoted to brigadier general following acts of valour at the Siege of Yorktown.

The moment Cairne dies, Magatha orders her tribe to begin a night siege on Thunder Bluff and the surrounding towns.

Chechen group involved in the Beslan school siege in 2004 took responsibility and its leader promised more attacks.

Filmic depictions often involve a small group of individuals under siege from the undead or fleeing a flesh-eating mob.

Flying planes completed their tasks, and strive to break the siege!

Small sacrifices in exchange for a favorable situation, and the siege!

Israel says the siege on Gaza is about security and making sure the deposed government of Hamas doesn't get its hands on any more weapons.

He wished now that he had never undertaken the siege of Miss Wilkinson's virtue.

There is no doubting its epic scale. Launched on September 8th 1941, the siege was the deadliest in history.

The events in Baida, following the airport siege, may provide a preview of the rough justice that could follow any regime dissolution.

Unlike them, he had no siege mentality, and needed no Berlin Wall to huddle behind.

The town held out for four months under siege.

Whereas Gaza was once plugged into Western economies, the siege has forced it to find other financial moorings.

The emperor is not Chinese but the generals, troops and money used, siege weapons, equipments and supplies ante mostly Chinese.

In the following context the public order will drop: center is infested by bandits, under siege, being raided and looted.

In the first few months of the siege, food could be purchased, albeit at exorbitant prices.

Shelling the city relentlessly and starving its citizens, Mladic lays siege to Sarajevo.

1949 - Chinese Civil War: The Red Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last KMT-held city on mainland China.

From then until the end of the half, Porto laid siege to Benfica's goal.

He and Pemberton signed the surrender agreement on July fourth. The siege of Vicksburg had lasted forty-seven days.

I have no desire to live in a city under siege. Let us be off!

Artillery Captains should no longer have too many Siege Engine production slots (they should have 3).

I love, often violates rules siege, my teacher always copy rules 20 times, I had to hold together with three pens.

Cannonsand explosives were far more effective than prior weapons of siege, blowing away many traditional fortifications.

Jayson Locklin is a nineteen-year-old soldier who escapes a village siege during the United Nations' 'Police Action' in East Timor.

For tactical reasons as well as moral ones, Israel should lift its economic siege.

Instead, he went to battle against Mr. Ouattara. He was captured after a siege of his residence by French and United Nations troops.

You will need wagons and mounts to carry the resources, same goes with building siege weapons.

Truckloads of Israeli biscuits are entering Gaza. Israel says this is part of its so-called decision to "liberalise" the siege.

He laid siege to her and finally won her hand.

They will also have found Mr Obama's overtures unhelpful in enforcing national unity, much easier when Iranians feel under external siege.

Good chances had gone begging for both sides before Japan took the initiative in the final minutes and laid siege to the North Korean goal.

First things first, siege weapons will be available for you.

As domestic consumption booms, China's export-oriented manufacturers are under siege.

Indeed, by the end of the siege in the spring of 1944, nine of the institute's self-appointed seed guardians had died of starvation.

Like the siege says, "the people of the town desperately want to rush out, and the people desperately want to blunt outside in. "

The first reliable description of the disease appears during the Spanish siege of Moorish Granada in 1489.

Gradually, hide from the nuclear mohism ink, be WeiZhuang completely under siege, mohism is under three hundred years the biggest disaster.

Despite their bravery, some made efforts to belittle their role in the defense of the siege.

Sichuan's major earthquake, resulting in tens of thousands of people under siege in the ruins.

The police laid siege to the building.

The last refuge for investment bankers is under siege.

It is the stress of a people living in a city under siege.

Many have laid siege over the years, only to return home licking wounds in frustration.

Pain signals originate at the site of injury but soon lay siege to the entire nervous system.

BETTER SIEGES ! The entire siege warfare experience has been improved, making sieges more fun and easier to get into.

Terrans excel in defensive situations where their bunkers and siege tanks really shine.

Damaging siege weapons as a priest is really hard, is there any plan to fix this ?

Early in April, NATO bombed in Bosnia again, this time to stop the Serbs siege of Gorazde.

The overlap is really no more different than a Siege Tank and the Yamato Gun ability or the Reaver and the Psi Storm from Brood War.

That gave us some breathing room because we were under siege that first week.

With the siege of Warsaw , Poland finally capitulates and surrenders .

ASEAN has been struggling for survival in the siege of great powers ever since its establishment.

When you join the castle siege, you are able to get the honor point.

However, crisis can spur action. Right now , Beijing feels it is under siege, so it is taking steps to address the quality issue.

Despite its corruption, Khartoum has been under siege for refusing to merely be a proxy.

The world is under attack with terrorists laying siege to all the major cities in the world.

Nothing is happening about the destroyed homes, because we live in a continuing state of economic siege.

They have absolutely no right in international law to declare an economic siege on Gaza, to harm the civilian population.

Why is Google, a company under siege from competition on every side, spending $168 million on building a solar energy project?