Sentences with phrase «under siege of»

What it couldn't achieve in the Red and Brown form is under the siege of its Green form.

But the area is under a siege of a different type.

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 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.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue, on Friday, said that people of the state live in fear and still under siege of Fulani herdsmen.

He listed the local government areas already under the siege of the invading Fulani herdsmen to include Agatu, Guma, Buruku, Kwande, Logo, Gwer, Gwer - West, Tarka and Makurdi.

The statement said while Ogun «was under the siege of violence and politically - motivated killings» during OGD's reign as governor, Kashamu «fights his political battles in the court of law and public opinion using his God - given resources.»

moment in the early afternoon, those hours when everything seems to stop under the siege of the sun and surrender to the fierce peak of its beaming light.

Not exact matches

Restaurant owners who spoke to Fortune stood in solidarity with their immigrant employees who participated in the nationwide «Day Without Immigrants» strike, which organizers hoped would highlight their importance to the American economy and daily life at a time when they feel under siege following the election of President Donald Trump.

Musk should look at the team Trump has put in charge of the country's climate - and - energy future and draw the obvious conclusions: Valid climate science is now officially under siege, and sustainable or renewable energy sources are about to lose out big - time to Big Oil.

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.

«In a world in which our attention is increasingly under siege, better focus makes it possible get more work done, in less time, at a higher level of quality,» the two write.

EMC is the leader in storage systems but has seen that power base under siege by more nimble players that got into flash storage faster than EMC did and don't have to protect an aging base of disk storage the way EMC does.

The essential concept of the public sphere is under siege from legal and extra-legal adversaries alike seeking to divide and conquer democracies by microtargeting neighbors into parallel realities using the tools of internet advertising and social media marketing.

Nothing about the events of the last few days suggests that the system is under siege.

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

Cicero might legitimately be cited in a «conservative» context because he lived in a moment when everything was «going to hell» and he was trying to preserve traditions under siege at the crashing of his own civilization.

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.

And that's exactly how Christians act these days - as though they are under siege every moment of every day by the secular nonbelievers.

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.

This remnant has wrested a Jewish state from the catastrophe and despair, but the state has been under siege since the day of its birth.

Under the suffering of the siege it does not prove to be heroic or virtuous.

Pyramid - type organizations of all types are under siege to a large degree because people communicate easily in new and interactive ways.

Holloway argued that when the objects of are experience are «plumbed to [their] depths by empirical science the last bastion of Greek... philosophy was and is under siege» (Perspectives in Philosophy, Vol.

In communities under siege from plague, wars and malnutrition, the Virgin's breast was a symbol of God's loving provision of life, the nourishment and care that sustain life, and the salvation that promises eternal life.

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.

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.

I will say this... Hodges» book, The Gospel Under Siege was at one time in my life hugely influential as was The Reign of the Servant Kings.

Instead of responding to a generous Israeli offer, they have turned to senseless violence, putting Israel under siege and bringing calamity on themselves.

Dr Ernest Marshall, a co-founder of the clinic that has been open since the early 1980s, told the AP: «We have never been under siege like this.

San Salvador was still cluttered with rubble from October's earthquake, leaving the impression of a city under siege.

The consolation addressed to Hezekiah certainly relates to the end of the siege but only as a kind of accessory conclusion, the real point being the renewing of the covenant between the Lord and his people under the rubric of «the remnant.»

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».

Yes, it does, and always will, but making war on religion — even on one of them — is the worst thing we can do, because the faith under siege would merely go underground.

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.

During the final three years of Zedekiah's reign, Jerusalem remains under Babylonian siege and Jeremiah remains the outspoken prophet of the impending tragedy as Yahweh's act of judgment.

The gates of hell are under siege.

Joan was then allowed by the king to lead the French army against the English as the city of Grisans held by the French was under heavy siege, on the point of losing the battle.

My hometown of Santa Rosa was under siege.

They are a fun bunch, the directors of Brisbane Markets, the wholesale food business under siege by VGI Partners.

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 Truman Show was a dystopian look at a fraudulent - utopia, a modern Greek tragedy about a baby not yet having left the womb, already condemned to the fate of an entire lifetime under the glare of thousands of cameras» 24 - hour, 7 - day - a-week siege.

... the border line aggresiveness of MSU's response is not what one expects from an under siege institution.

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.

Finally, liberals were PRIMED to act — they've spent all August and part of September under siege from conservatives, at least judging from media coverage.

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.

Parts of the Ashanti region, particularly Kumasi, have come under siege from gangs suspected to be armed robbers in recent time.

Maybe it is just the current label that is attached to «the migrant» that is suffering under the gloomiest siege of EU - UK relations and a migration debate that has reached, at times, new toxic levels.

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.

With New York's population of ash trees under siege against an invasive species, environmental officials are working to stop the invasion of another wood - eating pest.