Sentences with phrase «siege begins»

Each round of Siege begins with a pre-match prep period, in which the attackers survey the area with drones, and the defenders fortify their base by setting up traps and barricades.

According to the Human Rights Watch, prices for basic food have increased sharply since the siege began.

[5] The siege began when the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), accompanied by several members of the media, attempted to execute a search warrant at Mount Carmel Center ranch, a property of the religious sect Branch Davidians located in the community of Elk, Texas [6][7] nine miles (14 kilometers) east - northeast of Waco, Texas.

The Waco siege began on February 28, 1993, and ended violently 50 days later on April 19.

The pirates must have buried it hastily when the siege began, and they never got a chance to retrieve it.»

The siege began 20 years ago this year, in 1992, and lasted for 1,395 days making it the longest siege in modern warfare.

Not exact matches

When Philip threatened to lay siege to the city of Corinth and all its inhabitants hastily bestirred themselves in defense, some polishing weapons, some gathering stones, some repairing the walls, Diogenes seeing all this hurriedly folded his mantle about him and began to roll his tub zealously back and forth through the streets.

It was a miss they would quickly regret as Barca began to lay siege to Alisson's goal.

The beginning of the siege, where the police station is peppered with hundreds of bullets, is particularly well - done: in the absence of real ammunition, Carpenter uses pyrotechnic charges to disturb office materials in a unnerving way.

One of the more welcome pleasures of «Landline» is that it takes place in 1995, right before mobile phones began their siege upon the general populace.

Tom Clancy s Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue America s sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart - pounding action from beginning to end.

People will disagree, already one of my dearest friends and editors has begun the siege against my stance but I don't care.

At the same time, laying siege to a city has its own connotations and may remind, much like Batman Begins, of modern - day terrorism and 9/11.

Tom Clancys Rainbow Six Vegas 2 is your last chance to rescue Americas sexiest city from an escalating terrorist siege that will force you into heart - pounding action from beginning to end.

Shaun begins to redeem himself the next day, when he and Ed finally figure out that England is under siege.

Dawn replaces Wyatt with Matt Reeves, who after years of toiling in B - movies (e.g.. Under Siege 2: Dark Territory) and television (he created the WB college drama «Felicity»), began commanding feature film respect with both his lucrative no - name 2008 monster movie Cloverfield and the acclaimed but poorly - attended Let Me In, a 2010 remake of the Swedish vampire film Let the Right One In.

On March 30 of that year, as the siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was closing in on its sixth month, a half - dozen heavily armed Iranian Arab gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington and threatened to begin systematically killing all 26 hostages if their demands weren't met.

Sadly, The Siege, which begins as a well made thriller with an intelligent grasp of geopolitics, winds up muddled, goes crazy, descends into the usual Hollywood hoopla of unbelievable escapes from fiery explosions and impossible Mexican standoffs.

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There's something a little unsettling about the opening scenes of Ben Affleck's latest directorial effort, Argo, which consists of a recreation of the original siege of the US Embassy in Iran that began the Iran hostage crisis.

Right away we begin to get the feel of a town under siege, a town where life - birth to death - must go on, despite the gathering forces jockeying for pre-eminence in what will become a bloody civil war.

Publisher: Marvel Comics Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Oliver Coipel Cover: Oliver Coipel «Siege pt 1»: Things are about to change in the Marvel Universe yet again, and it begins here in Siege.

Set during the Trojan War, the ten - year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles.Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege; the earlier events, such as the gathering of warriors for the siege, the cause of the war, and related concerns tend to appear near the beginning.

Investors who couldn't get their money out began to panic, and other mutual funds now find themselves under siege.

Beginning with an interactive live - action film directed by Neil Huxley (Avatar, Watchmen) and shot by Director of Photography, Fabian Wagner (Game of Thrones), the «Campaign That Never Forgets» faithfully recreates the award - winning Nemesis System, driving viewers to make key story decisions during the siege of a fortress in Mordor.

The Kulve Taroth Siege quest will begin rolling out for Monster Hunter World players starting from April 18th

Human civilization (which doesn't sound like it's doing all that great to begin with) has come under siege by gigantic creatures who live beneath the surface of the Earth, and it's up to you to create and control powerful mechs to fend them off.

«We are grateful to the millions of players who have supported us for so long, and thanks to you, we are beginning a new year of Siege with a lot of exciting content ahead.

Rainbow Six: Siege replaced the canceled Rainbow Six: Patriots, after Ubisoft realized it would release during the beginning of the new console generation.

Nintendo has ignored much more impressive / visible displays of popularity in the past, including < a href ="http://starmen.net/stonehenge/"> 33,000 + petition signatures , < a href ="http://starmen.net/siteinfo/media.php"> at least half a dozen magazine appearances (that list is missing 2 or 3), M1 +2 being the # 1 import back in 2003, the 213,000 unique visitors to the < a href ="http://mother3.fobby.net/"> MOTHER 3 Fan Translation blog over the past 7 months, and of course all of the calls and letters they've been bombarded with since the < a href ="http://starmen.net/ebsiege/"> EB Siege began 10 months ago.

The show draws inspiration from a passage from Plutarch's Life of Alexander, so beginning: «I write not histories but lives: the showiest deeds do not always delineate virtue and vice, but often a trivial action, a quip or a prank, will reveal more of character than the fiercest slaughters, or greatest parades, or sieges of cities.

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Beginning with just one meter of sea level rise, our nation would be physically under siege, with calamitous and destabilizing consequences.

Dragon Quest II begins with a demonic siege on the kingdom of Moonbrooke, one of many kingdoms founded by the hero of Dragon Quest I, by the mad priest Hargon and his apocalyptic cult.