Sentences with phrase «long siege»

Instead this celebrated author has been reduced to a kind of billboard upon which almost any cause can be advertised, and it is in this purely functional guise that he is recognized in India, whether by supporters for whom «Salman Rushdie» represents the long siege of free expression in that country, or detractors who gain visibility for a variety of unrelated agendas by threatening him.

Bonniksen also had to worry himself about family during the week - long siege of flames.

He boarded the windows, apparently preparing for a long siege, but as police surrounded the schoolhouse, Roberts shot all 10 girls before killing himself.

They invoked Sarajevo, the Yugoslavian city that had hosted the Winter Games a decade earlier and, as a result of the war in the Balkans, remained under what would be the longest siege in modern history.

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

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Ironically, Ackman's 3 - year - long «for profit species of holy war,» as Parloff dubs the investor's extended Herbalife siege, has forced the company to shake off many of its most unsavory operations, like its dogged lead generation businesses.

For so long a master of the siege - mentality, Mourinho must recognise that he and his new club are fast being surrounded on all sides.

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.

However, certain complex bases are able to endure by themselves for long periods because they are able to provide food, water and other life support necessities for their inhabitants while under siege.

When passenger balloons first took to the skies in the late 1700s, they inspired scientific and metaphysical inquiry as well as feats of derring - do: During their century - long heyday, balloons were instrumental in both establishing the field of meteorology and breaking the siege of Paris during the Franco - Prussian war.

Apsell acknowledged that science has been under siege of late, with a sizeable percentage of the public still believing that researchers continue to disagree over long - settled evidence on climate change, for example.

The science had long been under siege from other disciplines that chipped away at its claim to be the study of matter and its interactions.

OK, long time - wimey story short, the Doctor is contacted by a young woman named Oswin who says she crash - landed and has been under Dalek siege for months, making souffles to pass the time.

Many senior dating over 50 sites promise love and perfect matches, here at Buzz50 Senior Dating we try to focus on you In 2009, another long - assumed gender difference in mating — that women are choosier than men — also came under siege.

Yesterday, we posted a chart that Josh Fischer at Snap Interactive (STVI: OTC BB) sent us based on analytics from their dating website Are You In 2009, another long - assumed gender difference in mating — that women are choosier than men — also came under siege.

In 2009, another long - assumed gender difference in mating — that women are choosier than men — also came under siege.

Blitzkrieg 2: Fall of the Reich spans three major offensives from the final days of fighting on the Eastern front and covers both the Soviet and German campaigns in the long «Siege of Budapest,» «Fortress Kurland,» and the Soviet «Operation Bagration.»

Escaping after Richard is dispatched by an arrow to the neck during the last stages of the siege, Robin and company make their way to England under the guise of the deceased knight Robert Loxley (Douglas Hodge), long - absent husband of Blanchett's Marion; just prior to his death, Richard entrusts Robin with his sword to return to his father at the family estate.

How long did the entire siege take?

Before long they are under siege by the devil worshippers, who blend in seamlessly with the south's small town populations.

I waited quite a long time for the next installment to the awesome Dungeon Siege series.

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.

Dramatising the notorious 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight from Tel Aviv that culminated in a week - long standoff between the Israeli government and Palestinian and German terrorists associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Entebbe — which takes its name from the Ugandan airport terminal where the siege took place — makes for an oddly unsatisfying drama given the high stakes involved.

It comes at the end of a long night, and it's the one most keenly anticipated by the producers themselves who now have their moment of glory as the people for whom this award represents years of agonising work and instances of what Jerry Maguire called the «up - at - dawn pride - swallowing siege that I will never fully tell you about».

It isn't long before our hero winds up getting pulled through a wormhole which dumps them ten years into the future, erasing their memories along the way and landing them in a new village under constant siege and buckling under internal pressure.

«THE SIEGE» is a long - winded thriller that, like so many Hollywood movies now, boils down to the «money shot,» the gut - grabber that's played big in the ads and coming attractions.

For a time, she was compelled only by the all - consuming desire to start a family with him; but that desire would soon be complicated by her struggles to conceive, and her hopes of becoming a mother would in turn be interrupted by the coming of the brutal Balkan war and the longest violent siege of a city in modern history.

While I personally love local co-op games, it has long been a problem for games like Dungeon Siege to offer co-op that doesn't interfere with the flow of the game.

Enjoyable for what it is, Dungeon Siege III will entertain for as long you can stand it.

Learning to spell English takes longer than learning to read, because around 4,000 common words contain spellings which are irregular (bed — head, said) or completely unpredictable (speak, speech, seize, siege), while only 2,000 words have letters with irregular sounds (out — group, couple).

The National Education Association, long a target of conservative criticism for its stands on political and social issues, is under siege again — this time for its advice to teachers on handling the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Napili Gardens is nestled just south of Kapalua Resort in Napili, a small beach town that still feels and looks like a throwback to the 60's when it still held the quiet charm of Maui long ago before the siege of highrise resorts took over the oceanfront landscape that you'll find 15 minutes further south in Kaanapali.

Attacking siege ladders will no longer clip through the gate house in the siege on Bovianum battle during The Invasion of Samnium chapter in Prologue Campaign.

Other new features include changes to the Survival Battlegrounds challenge progression; more rewards for the players who login up to 20 times a month, play long games, or beat a Survival level; and improvements to the game's walkthroughs, including a new tutorial for Siege mode.

Still, I can't seem to shake the feeling that Rainbow Six: Siege, as refined and fun the gameplay is, isn't going to have a very long lifespan.

This beacon of salvation is Rainbow Six: Siege and, despite offering much of what long - time fans have come to love about the series, there are a few areas where avid fans may feel that Ubisoft have dropped the ball in their quest to get what is admittedly a niche subsection of the FPS genre out to a wider audience base.

If you can't wait any longer and want an incentive to pick up a pre-order, Steam is running a special promotion for Alpha Protocol — sign up for a pre-order and you'll be gifted a free copy of Space Siege for the PC!

«Ultimately, the Siege game mode has a small hardcore group of players, but it isn't building a healthy long - term community around itself.»

Some come up with overly generic names (Massive Action Game), some with unnecessarily long ones (Peter Jackson's King Kong The Official Game of the Movie), and some with ones that shouldn't be touched at all, as is the case with Under Siege.

Toxic interactions have long been a problem in Rainbow Six Siege.

As has long been known, Rainbow Six Siege's fourth DLC pack will add a new, Japanese - set level as well as two new Japanese operators for players to play as.

It was also a good month for games with long tails as Grand Theft Auto V (# 7), The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (# 9), and Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege (# 10) continue to hold onto their slots in the top ten.

Ubisoft has announced today that Rainbow 6 Siege, the latest entry in the long running tactical shooter series, will be releasing all over the world on October 13, 2015.

«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.

After the continuing success of Rainbow Six: Siege's approach to DLC, Ubisoft has now announced that it will no longer be selling...

It seems Ubisoft's strategy is keeping Rainbow Six Siege relevant for far longer, and that's something dedicated players will no doubt be happy about.

That may be wishful thinking, but as we've seen from other Ubisoft games like The Division and Rainbow Six Siege, long - term support for a game can go a long way in building and maintaining a loyal community of fans.

For only launching with eleven multiplayer maps Rainbow Six Siege does a great job of keeping your attention for a long time.

Yes you heard that right, the long time PC franchise Dungeon Siege is making its way to consoles and PC according to Square Enix's announcement today.

It's always the worst news to hear when your overly excited for a new game to be released, but sometimes it's for the best and thats what Ubisoft announced today regarding Rainbow Six Siege, no longer will it be hitting shelves on October 13th instead being rescheduled for a later date of December 1st.