Sentences with phrase «lay siege to»

The war may be over in Europe, but, as this scenario plays out, we learn that the Nazis were actually preparing to lay siege to America.

Build the fantasy city of your dreams and experience an engaging world, but beware: monsters are waiting to lay siege to your domain.

Plus you can lay siege to random people online and get plenty of loot for that.

In the strategy portion, the player visits locations, trade for money, upgrade equipment, accept missions, engage enemies on the field or lay siege to towns.

Basically, you get to watch a decently well shot bit of live action footage where Talion and his Orcs lay siege to a fortress and have a bit of a...

The main hub, Lions Arch, lay siege to the villainous Scarlet Briar.

This time around, the Nurgle worshiping Warriors of Chaos have joined forces with the relentless Skaven ratmen to lay siege to the realm of men.

The marines took abandoned guns from Fort Guijarros and used them to lay siege to Old Town San Diego.

Constantinople, 1203: As the rapacious armies of the Fourth Crusade lay siege to the city, a secretive band of Templars infiltrate the imperial library.

Think of yourself as a one man army trying to lay siege to a giant stone fortress.

When a murderous street gang lay siege to an isolated, soon to be decommissioned police station, officer Austin Stoker finds himself in the unenviable position of having to team up with Darwin Joston, a dangerous criminal currently in the police station cells, to defeat the gang.

With Thanos» army of Outriders coming down from the skies to lay siege to Wakanda, fans had questions about the mysterious African nation.

Set in modern - day Los Angeles, it concerns a mob of crazy guerilla gunmen who lay siege to a soon - to - be-closed police station, trapping a single cop (Austin Stoker) and a couple of secretaries (Laurie Zimmer and Nancy Loomis) inside.

As the most recent in a long line of caesars, a young Roman child, Romulus (Thomas Sangster), is poised to inherit the throne — until Germanic forces invade, lay siege to the city, and brutally murder his parents.

This time around, he's saving the President from terrorists who lay siege to a state funeral in London.

Cesare marches his fearsome army to finish what Juan started - lay siege to Forli.

These lighter moments laced throughout are much - needed as events take an intense, dark turn when the weakening Voldemort assembles his army to lay siege to Hogwarts.

Testimony from captured rebels recounts that Yupanki ordered the men of Collata and neighboring villages to lay siege to the capital of Lima, with the goal of placing his brother — or more likely himself — on the throne of Peru.

Just because one is safely inside an embassy, even if there is little to no risk that the host nation would lay siege to the embassy, one can not smuggle out a person inside of a diplomatic pouch.

Despite the best efforts of the home fans, who tried to roar their team forward, West Ham failed to really lay siege to the Leicester goal in a disjointed second period that was lacking in quality.

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

Anyone noticed how we don't lay siege to the opponents box no matter how lowly the team?..

unwilling to join, they lay siege to Jerusalem in the hope of deposing Ahaz.

When Ahaz refused, they lay siege to Jerusalem in the obvious hope of deposing him and, with Judah under a ruler of their own choice, forming an allied army to meet Assyria.

For 300 years, the church continued to lay siege to the gates of hell.

We do not lay siege to the gates of hell to fight against the people we find there.

«Anonymous has now decided to lay siege to your site in response to the doctrines, liturgies and the precepts, absurd and anachronistic, that your organization, (which) is for profit, propagates and spreads worldwide,» a statement in Italian on the blog «ufficiale di Anonymous Italia» read.

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.

Demanding higher wages, a 40 - hour workweek and recognition of their union, about 2,000 employees lay siege to the Hilton Works mill.

It hasn't been a great quarter for consumer PCs, with Windows 8.1 several months away and tablets (mainly Apple's iPad) laying siege to the computing market.

When U.S. activist investor Elliott Advisers laid siege to Italy's dominant phone company this month, a shiver went through the country's corporate sector.

The move likely appeased Whole Foods» shareholders, who had been laying siege to the company's executives for relatively poor performance, but moreover it served as a harbinger of significant disruption in the grocery market.

A generation later, the Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem in 576 B.C. and the defeated Jews were moved to the area of Babylon.

When, in the late sixties, the Romans laid siege to Jerusalem, the Christians fled to Pella, a gentile town east of the river Jordan, where they survived for a time.

Sulayman's army laid siege to Vienna and forced Archduke Ferdinand to pay tribute.

Sennacherib boasts, «As to Hezekiah, the Jew, he did not submit to my yoke; I laid siege to forty - six of his strong cities, walled forts, and to countless small villages in their vicinity, and conquered them... «10 No pride remained in Jerusalem.

And your right let's be realistic stoke, west brom, us, Southampton even palace was laying siege to their goal.

laying siege to their box leaves very little space for us to pick them off without hoping for a mistake or lapse in concentration..

city laid siege to burnleys box, crystal palace box and lost both games..

I must say that I was really impressed with the display from our EPL title rivals Leicester City, who never gave up and laid siege to the West Brom goal for large parts of the game.

The lacklustre feel that has loomed over Madrid's setbacks in LaLiga this season was not present as they laid siege to the Athletic goal, only to find a well - known figure in inspired form.

Eriksen skied a half - volley over the crossbar, Kane sliced wide when unmarked and with just the goalkeeper to beat and the Palace keeper denied Aurier, Ben Davies and Kane as we laid siege to the home side's goal.

Arsenal were laying siege to the All - Stars goal early doors, but Smith's side held firm, with a headed clearance from referee Howard Webb helping to alleviate the pressure.

Both struck the post but it was Andriy Yarmolenko's miss that will live longest in the memory, the Ukrainian blazing over from eight yards out as BVB laid siege to the Wolfsburg goal in the second half.

In November, militants from the group also laid siege to a hotel in Mali, killing 21 people.

Recall that soldiers on an assignment of the Operation Python dance laid siege to Nnamdi Kanu's residence on Tuesday.

A group of protesters on Monday laid siege to the premises of the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) in Abuja, demanding for an end to the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki.

In May 2015, the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) laid a siege to Mr Kashamu's residence in Lagos in a bid to arrest and send him to the U.S. to face drugs charges.

The secret police arrested Dasuki yesterday after laying siege to his residence for about a month and restricted his movement.

Recall that the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in May 2015 laid a siege to Mr Kashamu's residence in Lagos in a bid to arrest and send him to the U.S. to face drugs charges.