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Besiege meaning
To beset or surround with armed forces for the purpose of compelling to surrender, to lay siege to, beleaguer. | To beleaguer, to vex, to lay siege to, to beset. | to assail or ply, as with requests or demands.
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The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi in an interview on on Citi FM on Tuesday said they would besiege the BoG office after their 21-day ultimatum given the Governor and his deputies elapses.
Young says that for the past seven months, she and her family have been trying to besiege the city to evict Murray, but has been repeatedly told to wait for an official order.
According to the Haryana police, Punjab Congress MLA Kotli and other leaders were going to besiege the Haryana CM’s house in protest against stopping the farmers from going to Delhi.
Protesting French farmers 'besiege' Paris by blocking all major highways with their tractors, demanding just prices and loosened regulations.
How many of those who besiege the statues want ethical universalism, and how many just want superior status for themselves?
But with the slow pace of NIN registration, pensioners struggle to receive their NIN, and are now besiege NIMC centres for capturing.
He said that the reason of besiege was not clear for him.
After various changes of fortune, the Carthaginians managed to besiege Syracuse itself, but were eventually pushed back by a pestilence.
Alfonso tried to besiege the city in the following September, but failed.
Battle of Alesia In the Battle of Alesia (September, 52 BC), Caesar built a fortification around the city to besiege it.
Burgrave Filips of Wassenaar and the other local noblemen of the Hook faction assumed that the duke would besiege Leiden first and send small units out to conquer the surrounding citadels.
From there they headed west to besiege the fortress of A'zaz on 15 May.
He marched and proceeded to besiege Rome, blockading it so that no one was able to leave the city.
However, Pompey managed to besiege his camp, but could not prevent his enemy from breaking the encirclement and retreating further east.
In " The Time of the Doctor ", the Daleks are one of the races that travel to Trenzalore and besiege it for centuries to stop the Doctor from releasing the Time Lords.
Mongol warriors using trebuchet to besiege a city.
Nabopolassar attempted a counterattack, marched his army into Assyria proper in 616 BC, and tried to besiege Assur and Arrapha ( Kirkuk ), but was defeated by Sin-shar-ishkun and chased back into Babylonia.
Otto proceeded to besiege Rome, taking Leo with him, and when the Romans eventually surrendered to Otto, Leo was reinstalled in the Lateran Palace as pope.
Parliamentarian troops were sent to besiege Portsmouth by land ; the guns of Southsea Castle were fired at the royalist garrison in the town.
Reaching Euboea in mid-summer after a successful campaign in the Aegean, the Persians proceeded to besiege and capture Eretria.