Sentences with phrase «siege took»

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.

The Assyrians came again and after a three - year siege took Samaria, the Israelite capital, and carried the people away (2 Kings 17).

Shrek, however, is not in the castle when the siege takes place.

How long did the entire siege take?

Not exact matches

The Algerian army carried out a dramatic final assault to end a siege by Islamic militants at a desert gas plant on Saturday, killing 11 al Qaeda - linked gunmen after they took the lives of seven more foreign hostages.

The assailant's motives are currently unknown, although he has demanded to speak with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and to have the flag of the Islamic State (ISIS) delivered to the café where the siege is taking place.

When a group of radicals took the city of Münster in 1534, they formed a polygamous death - cult centered around charismatic leaders who duped their followers into a disastrous siege, in the hope of initiating the End Times.

In the week following, Maxwell's social media pages were under siege from people who took offense to the idea that men should be taught not to rape.

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.

First since the citizens of Washington were under siege by the British military including the firing from the British Navy on fortified positions around the city with troops on the ground burning the city to the ground it would more appear that the citizens had already taken cover in the city.

As for Hezekiab, the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, as well as the small cities in their neighborhood, which were without number, — by escalade and by bringing up siege engines, by attacking and storming on foot, by mines, tunnels and breaches, I besieged and took.

Lutherans and Roman Catholics joined in a siege of the city, took it, and wiped out the defenders.

Even when the siege is briefly lifted, while Babylonian forces frightened Egypt home again, Jeremiah declares once more Yahweh's totally negative Word — the Chaldeans will return, take this city, and burn it with fire (see 37:4 - 10).

We can't let a Tea Party agenda prevail — it would take us back decades to a world where workers are denied rights, women are denied access to contraception coverage, and where the environment is under siege».

MPs should be making their voices heard by asking foreign secretary William Hague what new measures he proposes be taken in order to better protect Syria's beleaguered civilians, especially the 220,000 suffering in sieges.

He is taking part in a panel discussion in parliament today to discuss Syria's sieges, chaired by Mark Durkan MP.

«I am thrilled at the opportunity to provide a voice and forum for New York Democrats to speak out and take action on issues that are important to us — many of which are under siege by the current administration in Washington,» he said.

The allegation that policemen drafted to the House of Assembly complex to forestall the foretold violence stood akimbo while thugs laid siege on the legislature, brutalized Hon Friday Sani Makama, a duly elected lawmaker, and disrupted the activities of the Assembly should not be allowed to go unpunished.The National Assembly should also investigate the criminal act and take appropriate steps that would prevent the re-occurrence of such intimidating act in future.»

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.

Yes, Hogwarts takes a quite a serious beating, with the whimsical school reduced to rubble as Voldemort's armies commence their siege with help from trolls and spiders, storming the grounds on the hunt to slaughter as many hapless students as possible.

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.

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.

Walter Baltzer's thriller Family Under Siege stars Mel Harris as Fay Baxter, a mother who must defend her family after they are taken hostage by three bad guys.

Being one of those guys who took Dungeon Siege 1 and 2 really serious, i must say i was disappointed....

Ron Howard's «The Missing» takes place in 1886; «The Alamo» revisits the 1836 siege; and «The Last Samurai,» starring Tom Cruise, details an epic slice of Japanese warrior culture circa 1875.

In this no - brain flick we find Earth under siege by giant spaceships which take to destroying every major city one by one.

However in typical fashion, I found myself on a team full of level 3's against a team of level 11's, but at least my team were all equipped with the roller, besides me, so while they laid siege to the map, covering it as much as they could, I took up another sport, Hunting Inklings.

Dark and repetitive, the action sequences are routine and incomprehensible (Even a faux one - take siege on the terrorist headquarters doesn't make much sense on a logistical level, because director Babak Najafi just wants to show off the gimmicky camerawork).

Find enough, and you can take part in a new type of limited - time quest called a Siege.

Readers of a certain age will remember the dramatic Iranian Embassy siege of 1980, which saw six armed men storm the diplomatic building in south Kensington and take 26 people hostage.

But with more than five foes on your screen it does take a while to get used to constantly firing and transfering from target to target, something you have rarely needed to do before in Siege.

Or take a game like Rainbow Six: Siege which effectively has no real single player component.

The climactic siege, which takes up roughly a third of the film, benefits from sensible, easily followed geography.

Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Gabriel Byrne, Natacha Regnier Program: Special Presentations Headline: It Fails Us Now Scott's Take: Once upon a time, Costa - Gavras was rightly considered one of the great political filmmakers, turning his rage over real - life abuses of power into docudramas like Z, State Of Siege, and Missing.

However, as it tends to happen, the brand was starting to grow stale with its button mashing gameplay supplemented by a capture and siege based mission design which is why Koei Tecmo decided to take it off into a brand new direction by introducing the concept of an open world Dynasty Warriors game.

In this interview, Animation Director Scott Mitchell takes us through Rainbow Six Siege's single - player mode, an introductory campaign known as»...

In The Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale [2007] takes up the middle spot here.

The Lords of Death have returned and with the green, fertile lands of the overworld under siege it's up to you to take the fight beneath the earth.

If you manage to take the Kulve Taroth down, you'll be able to scavenge weapons right from its body, but even if it escapes, you'll get rewards when the siege ends.

Matthew Heinemann's City of Ghosts takes place in another sieged Syrian city, IS stronghold Raqqa, focusing on the city's citizen journalist network, Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS), a group that records and releases in secret from this controlled zone, at considerable risk.

Considering how widespread the lootbox system has become, appearing even in single player games like Middle Earth: Shadow of War and Assassin's Creed: Origins (though in the latter they can only be bought with in - game currency, not real money, and are thus an example of lootboxes done right) and continuing to be popular across multiplayer titles like Overwatch and Rainbow 6: Siege, it's not a far - fetched assumption that Take - Two was planning something similar for Red Dead Online.

Another man is forced to take on a heroic journey when a band of marauders attacks his town and kidnaps his wife In the Name of the King - A Dungeon Siege Tale.

Wage war using swords, bows, siege weapons, and even take control of giant avatars of the gods and lay waste to enemy cities.

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).

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On 29th July O'Brien led the siege of a cottage in Ballingarry, County Tipperary, in which some members of the constabulary had taken refuge.

John Keegan takes us inside Berlin in the Spring of 1945 during the most intense city siege in history.

Also during the Civil War the 102nd Pennsylvania Infantry chose Jack as its mascot where he took place in nearly every regiment battle in Virginia and Maryland and was included in such battles as Antietam, Spotsylvania and the siege of Petersburg.

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