Sentences with phrase «under siege for»

That was good news for a company under siege for what my colleague Ingrid Lunden described without exaggeration as ``... perhaps its biggest security scare in its history.»

The Affordable Care Act was under siege for much of 2017.

But this summer, Valeant came under siege for its aggressive drug - pricing policies, its voracious appetite for acquisitions, its high debt level and its ties to a dubious pharmacy partner.

Fast forward to last week and the governor was under siege for his program to purge from the state email system all electronic correspondence that was over 90 days old.

Benue State was completely under siege for two years.

United's five game winning run also includes narrow wins over Stoke and Crystal Palace in which their goal was under siege for large periods and their winning goal over Stoke was offside.

Not exact matches

Civilians under siege by Assad regime forces and its supporter foreign terrorist groups, wait for their evacuation in Aleppo, Syria, on Dec. 20, 2016.

None of the panelists suggested a fix for the problem other than that journalists must continue doing their jobs as if they were not under siege.

7 million: Americans who, in 2017, qualified for the cost - sharing subsidies currently under siege.

Unfortunately, the supply of capital for main street small businesses is under siege.

Experiencing the kindness of strangers offered relief to Mormons who had been feeling «a little under siege,» said Bennett, who first got to know Romney through church in 1978 and worked with him for five years at Bain & Company, a global consulting firm that Romney eventually led as CEO.

For the ancient Hebrew, so often under siege from foreign powers and alicted by apostasy from within, the promise of the Messiah was a hope and joy that sustained him throughout his difficult history.

In light of the denial of «the gospel» as a technical term for this message by GES advocates and the insistance that «Jesus guarantees eternal life to whoever believes in Him» by itself, without any substantiating truth such as His crosswork or Deity, constitutes the message by which sinners are saved, for consistency, Hodge's book should be retitled to «The Promise of Eternal Life Under Siege».

Even the title of Zane Hodges book, «The Gospel Under Siege» refers to this very thing — not NT revelation in general — but to the specific message that must be given to the lost and received by the lost for salvation.

Spagnuolo went to the Giants as defensive coordinator in 2007 and used the Double A as a foundation for the pressure defense that sacked Tom Brady five times and kept him under siege all night in New York's 17 — 14 upset win in Super Bowl XLII.

He lives on Dickson Street in North St. Louis, a neighborhood under siege: vacant, crumbling houses, bars where you could get your throat cut if you even walked in the wrong way, packs of sky - high dudes looking for a score.

He more than any other player saved the day for England when their goal was under siege and they hung on for a famous, but ugly, victory.

Bologna withstood Sampdoria's siege in the second half and added a third on the counterattack in the 73rd as Godfred Donsah ran from inside his own half before rolling the ball across for substitute Orji Okwonkwo, who had been on the pitch for under four minutes.

Home defender Benjamin Henrichs, still to open his account for his boyhood club, drove an effort straight at Dortmund's under - siege Swiss goalkeeper as the half - hour mark loomed.

We read the medal citations in the papers, but this is the unsanitised version - the reality of crouching in a slit trench under mortar attack, the agonising wait for helicopter support, the heat, the thirst, the dirt, the monotony of ration packs, the fear, the chilling sounds and smell of war.The theme of the book is set by Fergusson's intricate account of the Siege of Now Zad.

The White House, under siege over Trump's equivocal response to the incident, on Sunday condemned «white supremacists» for inciting the violence that led to one death.

The town of Have in the Afadjato South District of the Volta Region was under siege on Tuesday after one Kitsi Bright, a suspected criminal accused of terrorizing residents, escaped from lawful custody for the second time in six months.

«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.

Newark is a town under siege from outsiders ahead of Thursday's by - election for a seat in Parliament.

The Cuomo administration, for all its efforts, finds itself under siege as Bharara expands his corruption investigation.

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.

So, if the majority party is «under siege,» the math says 15 retirements represent risk for the Dems to lose their majority.

The governor told his guests that 12 out of the 23 Local Government Areas were under siege of the Fulani herdsmen, adding that it was impossible for farming and grazing to go along.

And now today's parliamentarians, and press, have done it again, with the town under siege from outsiders ahead of Thursday's by - election for the seat previously held by Patrick Mercer.

Governor David Paterson is under siege with a series of swirling controversies... the awarding of bids for the Aqueduct racino, his conversations with a woman who has accused a top aide to the governor of domestic violence, and the cloud over how the governor obtained Yankees» World Series tickets.

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 biggest ever study of Arctic pollutants paints a picture of an ecosystem under siege — with potentially grave consequences for denizens of Earth's northernmost reaches.

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.

There are no critic reviews yet for A Family Under Siege.

Subtitled The Golden Age, with Blanchett older and still looking good, her kingdom is under siege and she also has to juggle suitors for better and worse.

Two U.S. Navy officers clash aboard a nuclear submarine bound for Russia, while that country is under rebel siege.

-- which is currently busy dividing critical opinion with its deranged, allegorical depiction of a woman under increasingly heavy siege from within her own life — has been far less polarizing for regular movie - goers, who gifted it with a rare «F» grade via audience polling service CinemaScore.

Critics Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror.

Critic Consensus: Plunging viewers into the nightmarish hellscape of an apartment complex under siege, [Rec] proves that found footage can still be used as an effective delivery mechanism for sparse, economic horror.

That the world is once again under siege, is good news for Sam, who's already bored working for a tanning salon - toasted John Malkovich, funny and nearly orange in the split second of screen time he's given.

Featured prominently in the trailer, under siege from just about everyone, DMC probably stands for «Department of Mutant Control,» or something along those lines.

Whether you're in it for the ride, or the story of loved ones under siege, it's safe to say nobody could have expected Krasinski (after two unassuming features, including the dysfunctional - clan dramedy «The Hollars») to have this in him as a director.

Desperate times, however, call for desperate measures and with Asgard under siege from Malekith's forces, Thor's just about desperate enough to make a pact with his own personal devil — even if he does still hope that Loki can be redeemed.

These included new unit abilities for three of the units (Sassanid Knight, Sergeant at Arms, and Whirling Dervish), new castle physics (e.g. castle walls now break apart realistically and come apart stone by stone when under siege), and two new pieces of siege equipment (the War Wolf and Mantlet)

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.

Public school teachers, parents and administrators need to elevate the issue of how public education in this country is under siege and currently undergoing its greatest challenge for survival from the threat of privatization and high - stakes standardized testing.

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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.

The Leningrad symphony became a rallying cry, not only for the demoralized citizens of the city but also for people the world over, who were moved to contribute to Russian war relief efforts thanks to the stirring symphony that seemed to capture both the terror of living under Hitler's siege and the triumph of a people determined to survive.

The software development community has been under siege from so - called «patent trolls» for several years, and it is only a matter of time before a bunch of lowlifes find out that indie publishing is big business and there's money to be stolen from the hard work of artists via the legal system.