Besieging

High water and dangerous rip currents have been besieging much of the West coast from southern California to Oregon since Thursday, caused by a series of powerful storms that have been making their way ashore from the Pacific Ocean.

Russian forces have been besieging Bakhmut for months in the longest battle in more than a year of war.

Despite the paucity of food, medical, and fuel supplies, hospital personnel have defied orders to vacate the facilities or leave their patients unattended, and Israeli forces have been besieging the three hospitals in and around Jabalia for several weeks.

The burial area in the Nasser hospital was built when Israeli forces were besieging the facility last month.

The mayor of Beit Lahia said that Israel is besieging areas in northern Gaza and preventing the entry of food and medicine with the aim of forcing residents to flee.

Making matters worse, angry mobs began “besieging the commissary stores, destroying liquor, intent perhaps upon pillage, and swaying to and fro in whatever momentary passion possessed them,” reported a local newspaper editor.

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) alliance, which is besieging the area, said it did not yet know if any IS fighters were among the passengers.

This has resulted in a gold rush with illegal panners besieging the province causing serious land degradation.

Waves of refugees and migrants are now besieging countries.

KOTA KINABALU: A senior Sabah Umno leader said Sabahans made the right decision to accommodate the Peninsular-based political party into Sabah in order to solve the political quagmire besieging the state in the early nineties.

Once we were back in the car — the event ended, as usual, with a throng of fans besieging Smith for autographs, photos and writing advice — I asked whether she felt she had been successful in her goal of finding ways to communicate across divisions.

A besieging army, encamped in possibly squalid field conditions and dependent on the countryside and its own supply lines for food, could very well be threatened with the disease and starvation intended for the besieged.

Additionally, Tallard had insisted on besieging the little town of Villingen for six days (16–22 July), but abandoned the enterprise on discovering the approach of Eugene.

Ammianus refers to a great number of Roman soldiers who had not been let into the city and who fought the besieging Goths below the walls.

Beaten, Gondebaud left Lyon and took refuge in Avignon with Clovis besieging it.

Conrad's army marched south, besieging Pavia, but the city walls blocked the attackers.

Davis (2006), p. 236. Ward's men drove off the troops besieging the church, but rather than return to Goliad, they delayed a day to conduct further raids on local ranches.

Death Memorial cross said to mark the spot where King Malcolm III of Scotland was killed while besieging Alnwick Castle in 1093.

He left the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, except three corps detached to form the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony.

However, only part of the besieging force left for Rome and, under continued siege, Capua fell to Rome soon afterwards.