Beleaguered Castle

The daughter of Zion is left like a shelter in a vineyard, like a hut in a field of melons, like a besieged city.

And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

August 26 August 30 The Russian Second Army is surrounded and defeated in the Battle of Tannenberg.

The last enclave of the White Forces was the Ayano Maysky District on the Pacific coast.

So we are so lucky that we have resources like the Internet, where we can circumvent these institutions from the bottom up.

It happened, when Joab kept watch on the city, that he assigned Uriah to the place where he knew that valiant men were.

And it came to pass, when Joab observed the city, that he assigned Uriah unto a place where he knew that valiant men were.

If this triangle turned into a quadrangle with the addition of Russia, China would be boxed in from virtually all sides.

Saddled by a viral infection, drug related insecurity, and rising crime, Mexico feels like a besieged place.

Both try desperately to keep immigrants at bay, whether through cultural segregation in the UK or, in Japan s case, by mere rejection.

As a result of the armed conflict, the Nakhichevan Autonomous Republic has been under blockade and is linked to the rest of the country only by air.

What s true for great powers is doubly true for beleaguered Israel, which failed to dismantle Hezbollah s power over Lebanon.

Democracy returned to Spain in 1975, and the country soon recovered its place within Europe, just when Poland seemed trapped in its tragic history.

In '07 north Gaza drowned in sewage, now all of Gaza drowns in rain world still debates if there is a siege! http t.co PnIGUQslOk Nour Odeh ( nour_odeh) December 15, 2013

Through his visit to Jerusalem, Sadat shook away Israel s siege mentality and gave psychological living space to an otherwise claustrophobic nation in the midst of a hostile Arab world.

Four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens were killed when militants fired rockets at them as they were being driven to a safer location after protesters surrounded the consulate building.

With the conquest of Iraq by Suleiman the Magnificent in 1534, followed by Sultan Murad IV's capture of Baghdad in 1638, a large influx of Turks settled down in the region.

The arrest in February 2005 of two Kanak leaders over a blockade of the Goro Nickel mine construction site has raised concern about whether smooth implementation of the project can be achieved.

Mexico is trapped by a dense network of rent seekers and monopolies in sectors that are crucial for economic growth, including telecommunications, energy, transportation, and financial services.

On December 23, Mauritanian authorities arrested 16 teachers who had heckled the Education Minister in protest against their arbitrary transfer to remote posts, for having taken part in last year's demonstrations.

In 1855, Louis Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, built a fort at Medina which would be besieged by El Hadj Omar Tall, in an 1857 war against the sovereign of Khasso.

Could a person of color win power in other white majority countries? Could a member of a beleaguered minority transcend the circumstances of his birth to lead his or her country?

This way the occupation is in a losing battle. Those who follow social networks know that the Israeli propaganda is not yet able to neutralize or fight the social media army who support the Palestinian cause.

This part of rebel held Syria right outside of Damascus has been under siege since 2013, leaving residents to rely on food produced locally or smuggled in through tunnels or across checkpoints.

During the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip in the first part of the reporting period, the violence had killed 23 UNRWA pupils Israel had failed in its obligation to protect Palestinian children while protecting its own citizens.

I hear you and I know that you would want me to be strong, but right now, I am being sucked down, surrounded and suffocated by these raging emotional waters, craving to cleanse my soul, trying to emerge on a firm footing one more time, to keep on fighting and flourishing just as you taught me.

Now that the guerrillas are boxed in, what can Rajapaksa reasonably offer to them and ordinary Tamils? The Tigers leaders have committed crimes against humanity, and some of them engage in criminal activities.

In his first speech to the House of Commons as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill inspired hope in a beleaguered nation when he famously declared that he and thus Britain had nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.

But on the great issues of war, peace, and the balance of power, Europe seems trapped between an insufficiently cohesive foreign policy and uncertainty among individual countries about how to define and secure their national interests.

Saddled by a viral infection, drug related insecurity, and rising crime, Mexico feels like a besieged place. The noted columnist Miguel Angel Granados Chapa wrote last week All that s missing is for Mexico to get peed on by a dog.

Tell that to a colleague here in Nairobi who was trapped in the mall for five hours as gunfire echoed all around. She emerged unharmed to find that two members of her family were dead and a third wounded.