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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.

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

"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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

The battalions held out for three months under siege.

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

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

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

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

The town held out for four months under siege.

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

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

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

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

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

The last refuge for investment bankers is under siege.

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

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

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.

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

In 1683, Vienna (the capital of Austria) was under siege by over a hundred thousand Ottoman Turks.

When Galland translated the Nights, the Ottomans had recently put Vienna under siege.

But will he use it to stabilize Pakistan's nuclear arsenal should it come under siege?

Fed chairman Ben Bernanke and those who helped him save the country from depression are now under siege.

Towns in the east were under siege, making military protection the immediate concern.

The city was kept under siege until the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton, under siege from the right, declared that "the era of big government is over. "

One way to stay functional is to avoid returning fire--no matter how under siege you feel.

Gaza was under siege before and remains so after the war.

As smoking advertising is banned in many areas, smoking cigarettes will be under siege.

The finless porpoise is an icon of an ecosystem under siege.

As darkness fell across it, Deraa was a city under siege.

Misurata, Libya's third-largest city, remains under siege, with power and water cut.

Heroes at castles under siege can no longer hire new troops.

It reported that China's developers are under siege as property prices collapse.

When the critical moment when the city is under siege, you can become invincible empire!

Finally, with Atlanta under siege, Confederate forces set fire to their own munitions stores.

Food and baby formula is smuggled into towns still under siege, including Rastan and Telbiseh.

Syrians in Aleppo and Daraa reportedly are under siege again.

But these days, public higher education is very much under siege, facing even harsher budget cuts than the rest of the public sector.

You can't recruit units while under siege, but you can still summon them.

Local Democracy under Siege by Dorothy Holland, et al.

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

As we speak, Harrogath is under siege by Baal's demons. Catapults rain death just outside the town walls.

Bloomberg NewsYou may have read somewhere that Yahoo's board has been under siege.

Foreign aid-workers in Kabul feel under siege.

In addition, "over-fishing has taken a serious toll, and the national parks are under siege. "

The eurozone is under siege from the markets.

But these days UNDP staff feel under siege.

Africans say they feel under siege.

There is a sense that the place is under siege.

The abbey is under siege. Send help.

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

It can mount a defense when under siege, and warn its neighbors of trouble on the way.

And Israel's goods are cheaper and better quality because they are not produced under siege.

How long must this reef live under siege?

We should try our best to send supplies to the city that has been under siege.

With the euro under siege, is this the time for more Europe?

Troy was under siege for ten years.

Japan's Forests Under Siege: How Foreign Capital Threatens Our Water Source

Armed capture of a place under siege:

No response on any level, red alert this vessels under siege

Unions and Communities under Siege

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