Sentences with phrase «laying siege»

We are laying siege to the citadel of the APA.

We are laying siege to the APA.

But the Nokia 7 Plus at the moment has the benefit of being in a relatively uninhibited zone, with nothing from the likes of Xiaomi and Samsung laying siege to it.

The game's protagonist, BJ» Terror Billy» Blazkowicz will team up with a group of resistance fighters set out to push back the occupying Nazi forcing laying siege to America.

Break free from linear levels of the original game with a fully explorable «Metroidvania» style overworld, laying siege to a diabolical cloning facility with varied and detailed environments.

Released recently on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One after razing and laying siege to PC gamers for years, the console version of this middle - age multiplayer melee sets its trebuchet's sights on Braveheart - caliber brawls, only to deliver a spectacle worthy of an evening at Medieval Times.

The general gist is that you find yourself in Shanghai as a rogue general is laying siege to it for reasons that are never really explained, and must protect a Chinese V.I.P..

Meanwhile laying siege to city walls can feel like a drag as cannons, bombards and howitzers all take a considerable amount of time to punch through.

Laying siege to one fortress after another, Genghis called upon his cunning and imagination to crush each enemy in a different way, to overcome moats, barriers, deceptions, and superior firepower — until his army faced the ultimate test of all.

Laying siege to the Fit EV's «gas pedal» provides an FDA - approved helping of torque that's enough to put a smile on even the most fervent electric car detractors» face.

Your formerly cordial Ferrari host waves frantically and shrieks as if 007, wearing Team McLaren Nomex and brandishing an assault rifle, is laying siege.

The unforgiving evaluations, the intolerance for excuses, the talk of saving lives: These are the ever - present reminders that Canada and the staff are a band of rebels fighting against the corrosive culture of poverty laying siege to the families just outside our four walls.

Laying siege to Earth's most beloved locations, this is Roland Emmerich's most perfect replica of the disaster flicks of the 1970s.

Laying siege to a fortress is an option in a menu, instead of something that you see manifested on the screen.

If it's initially distracting that these tweakers are played by slumming Ivy Leaguers (James Franco, Kate Bosworth), director Gary Fleder — a dab hand with knotty, workable pulp (Kiss the Girls, Runaway Jury)-- proves admirably patient in revealing character and place, and it helps that those laying siege to our hero's self - timbered abode never quite react in the way expected of goons in a Jason Statham movie.

His action scenes recall not just comic - book splash panels, but also heavy - metal album covers: beefy viking - like warriors leaping into slow - motion battle, dragons tearing across skies, a towering fire demon laying siege to a city.

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.

But it's only a matter of time before Thor is summoning his potent hammer and laying siege to Surtur and anyone else in his path while the all too fitting sound of Led Zeppelin's «Immigrant Song» flares.

What meager employment is to be found is the high - risk work of boarding skiffs and laying siege on barges ten times their size, David and Goliath style.

In the first film, Mike saved the president (Aaron Eckhart) from terrorists laying siege to the White House.

Still, laying siege to cancer cells» supply lines may cast a wider net than targeted therapies aimed at rare oncogenic mutations.

Dasuki was picked up by the operatives of DSS yesterday after laying siege to his residence for about a month and restricted his movement.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

With all the RCC's riches being horded and their hierarchies living in lives of humble luxuries, I'm sorry but I can not rightly commend such religious liars who would rather pilfer and lay sieges upon the emotionally despondent and financially poor... Give all that you have obtained by years of pilferage and give it back to your flocking poor oh pabulum pope... Only then will Christ Jesus find mercies upon your religion's unholiest vespers...

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.

4 Thou also, son of man, take thee a tile, and lay it before thee, and pourtray upon it the city, even Jerusalem: 2 and lay siege against it, and build a fort against it, and cast a mount against it; set the camp also against it, and set battering rams against it round about.

3 Moreover take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face against it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it.

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.

«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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Following the setback, Crooks» team rallied and laid siege on their opposition's goal, with Mousa Dembele abandoning his defensive midfield post to fire a shot wide.

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.