Sentences with phrase «under siege on»

Under siege on multiple fronts and with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. at her side, Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz declared Thursday she's not afraid to stand alone on the Iran deal.

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.

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But the Russian and Syrian bombs are being dropped indiscriminately on the opposition - controlled east, where more than 250,000 civilians are under siege.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

On the club level, his place in the first team is under siege.

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.

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.

«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.

Mr. President, my zone is under siege and I would continue to say it on this floor of the senate.

Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court also in Abuja had granted the ex-NSA bail on November 3 in the charges of unlawful possession of firearms but the bail was on November 4 scuttled by the SSS who instead of obeying court order laid siege on his Asokoro Residence and placed him under house arrest.

«I think that there should be a very serious pushback on the perception that crime has worsened and that we are a city under siege and that we need stop - and - frisk back,» said Rev. Al Sharpton, arguably Mr. de Blasio's most prominent and controversial supporter.

Ugbokolo, the host town to Benue State's second highest educational institution — the Benue Polytechnic — has come under a strange, violent siege on...

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

A statement from Force headquarters, signed by Acting ACP Olabisi Kolawole, confirming the arrests, noted that «Bandits numbering about 20 had on Thursday 19/11/2015 held the Estate under siege as they robbed about three banks before escaping through the waterways.

Ms. Scozzafava had been under siege from conservative leaders because she supported gay rights and abortion rights and was considered too liberal on various fiscal issues.

Right now, the Urban Justice Center is holding a news conference on Forsyth Street, where vegetable vendors say they are under siege.

Dasuki asserted that the siege on his house ought to be immediately removed and that as a result of the aggression of the Federal Government, his life has been under constant threat.

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.

On many fronts, Oz is a land under siege.

The first large outbreak — in 2007 on Yap Island in Micronesia — infected 70 percent of the island's population but was only identified because scientists had been deployed there on the assumption the isle was under siege by dengue.

But off the island's shore, it is under siege from the beautiful, exotic lionfish, which is encroaching on the world's second - largest coral reef.

But the idea that natural selection can operate on groups, and can produce group - level adaptations, has been under siege in a philosophical and semantic war among biologists since the 1960s.

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.

«Tower Block» is a riff on «Assault on Precinct 13» but where Carpenter's film had a police station about to be shut down which found itself under siege from an L.A gang, here it's a London tower block which is on the verge of being demolished.

The movie cuts between these two facets of the same world to present a unified portrait of lives under siege, cutting between interviews with the two men, harrowing portraits of the violent forces in their lives (especially on the Mexican side of the border) and fly - on - the - wall representations of the main figures on the job.

Saw VI and Saw 3D: The Final Chapter director Kevin Greutert helms the»80s - set psychological thriller that centers on an estranged family who hires a cult de-programmer (Dorff) to get back their teenage son from a murderous cult, only to find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.

Beast's focus is less on a small, closed - minded community under siege by a murderous stalker than it is on one young woman besieged by her own closed - minded family.

Fascinating, forcible, and rough, Saulnier offers a punk rock variant on Rio Bravo — with a likeable rabble impossibly endangered in an under siege scenario — that's also in analogous tradition... Read more»

The main plotline focuses on Rowan and Lianna, a Prince and Princess from the Aytolis Kingdom, as their homeland comes under siege from an evil dragon

The main plotline focuses on Rowan and Lianna, a Prince and Princess from the Aytolis Kingdom, as their homeland comes under siege from an evil dragon Velezark and evil enemy kingdom.

It's a tight, little affair, nothing on the Gothic level of Scorsese's swampy psychothriller, a movie that doubles down on the toxic relationships of a broken family under siege.

In a piece I wrote over a decade ago, I ridiculed Hollywood's obsession with remaking Die Hard, as in «Die Hard on a cruise ship» (Under Siege).

S.W.A.T.: Under Siege is coming to DVD, Blu - Ray, and Digital on August 1st!

CULVER CITY, Calif. (June 19, 2017)-- When the drug war hits home, the tables are turned in the explosive action - thriller S.W.A.T.: UNDER SIEGE, available to own on Blu - ray ™, DVD and Digital August 1 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.

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.

Cultures under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma, edited by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Marcelo Suárez - Orozco and Utrecht University Professor Antonius C.G.M. Robben, draws on the work of anthropologists, psychologists, and psychoanalysts to look at the complex, overlapping ways that societies and individuals come to grips with the traumatic effects of violence, humiliation, discrimination, and feelings of historical injustice.

«School district shuts down information after Stoneman Douglas shooting» via David Fleshler of the South Florida Sun - Sentinel — The Broward school district's repeated, emphatic — and it turns out, false — statements that Nikolas Cruz had not been in a controversial disciplinary program fit a pattern of an institution on the defensive and under siege.

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And as the plates pull apart, the pressures of ruling a kingdom under siege are weighing on Aquaman and Mera as well!

But Mabbot - who exerts a curious draw on the chef - is under siege.

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.

Invisible walls, a lack of jumping, and the famous «impossible to scale slight incline» make players feel like they're more on a predetermined ride than traversing the ruins of a planet under siege.

Falkreath Hold on the other hand, is a township being held under siege by the warlord Domihaus the Bloody - Horned.