What's the difference between besieger and leaguerer?
Besieger
Definition:
(n.) One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
Example Sentences:
(1) In practice they are so elastic that they have been used to deny pasta to besieged Gazans.
(2) Access to besieged areas was a condition of a truce brokered earlier this year by the US and Russia , but the Syrian government has continued to ignore requests for aid deliveries, humanitarian officials say.
(3) Around 800,000 people died of starvation in one of the most horrific chapters of the war as the city was besieged by the Nazis for two and a half years.
(4) Commanders in the besieged Libyan rebel enclave of Misrata have complained that Nato has ignored requests for air support during a week of heavy attacks by pro-Gaddafi forces.
(5) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(6) At home, he’s besieged by leadership speculation of sufficient intensity to see his conservative allies resort to public verbal knife-fights.
(7) By creating an environment of intolerance – one could even say outright hostility – towards an already besieged community, the laws have fostered a surge of anti-gay violence across the country.
(8) Speaking after a day of high-level intelligence briefings with British officials in London, Abbott described the unfolding atrocity in northern Iraq as a "humanitarian catastrophe" and said Australia would provide humanitarian aid to Yazidi refugees besieged by Islamic State (Isis) forces on Mount Sinjar in northern Iraq.
(9) The UN waits too long to get access to one besieged area even though international law clearly permits it,” argues a Syrian involved in below-the-radar humanitarian work – the sort that comes, unlike government assistance, with no strings attached.
(10) They have kept the city open and have reopened it when it was besieged.
(11) The tank fired round after round, trying to help the besieged soldiers, but it didn't move forward, fearing the IEDs planted by Khalil and his men.
(12) Glee and American Horror Story impresario Ryan Murphy returns with this camptastic take on the slasher genre where a sorority house is besieged by a killer.
(13) Hefazat-e-Islam officials say they will "besiege" Dhaka next month if the government does not agree to their demands.
(14) When Egypt's security forces stormed the besieged al-Fath mosque in central Cairo almost two weeks ago among those arrested were four siblings with joint Irish-Egyptian nationality – three women aged 21 to 28, and their brother, 17.
(15) We haven’t heard the leader of the Labour party speak out enough to demand UK airdrops to besieged civilians who are dying in their thousands.” A Labour spokesman said: “Jeremy has repeatedly condemned the Russian military intervention and bombing campaign in Syria and called for an independent investigation of evidence of war crimes.
(16) Kenneth Feinberg, the US treasury department official who is scrutinising pay packages at bailed-out banks, said that Lewis – besieged by regulatory investigations and lambasted by shareholders – should get no salary or bonus for the year.
(17) Matthew Pennycook is MP for Greenwich and Woolwich Louise Haigh: ‘Bringing down Corbyn would be an act of betrayal’ Facebook Twitter Pinterest Louise Haigh New Labour was a response to a Tory party in tatters, besieged by scandal, its fiscal credibility in ruins, tired and out of ideas.
(18) But within months, as the bodies piled up in Syria, that support would start draining away, leaving Akhras besieged by criticism and questions about the regime's judgment that he has struggled to answer.
(19) Are we fighting for a better understanding of what is going on in our sport or are we trying to get power?’” Saddique Shaban (@SaddiqueShaban) No let up in Kenyan athletes siege at Roadha House as besieged officials watch in awe.
(20) Iraq's prime minister has urged people in the besieged city of Falluja to drive out al-Qaida-linked insurgents to pre-empt a military offensive that officials said could be launched within days.
Leaguerer
Definition:
(n.) A besieger.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iceland’s players are in there bobbing up and down like a bunch of non‑leaguers ecstatic at being drawn against Everton in the third round of the Cup, a reminder of the miniature scale of this obsessive social experiment.
(2) Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer first openly gay active pro baseball player Read more “People keep saying I’m brave.
(3) The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said Denson, with the help of former major leaguer Billy Bean, reached out to the newspaper to tell his story.
(4) Milwaukee Brewers minor leaguer David Denson has become the first openly gay player on a team affiliated with major league baseball.
(5) 10.25pm BST The list Just to reconfirm, here is a list of those who were suspended today for their links to the Biogenesis of America anti-aging clinic which was accused of providing MLB players with performance-enhancing drugs: Major League players Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees Everth Cabrera, SS, San Diego Padres Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Francisco Cervelli, C, New York Yankees Jesus Montero, C, Seattle Mariners Jhonny Peralta, SS, Detroit Tigers Jordany Valdespin, INF, New York Mets Minor leaguers players Sergio Escalona, P, Houston Astros Fernando Martinez, OF, New York Yankees Jordan Norberto, P, free agent Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Cesar Puello, OF, New York Mets All players will serve suspensions of 50 games starting immediately with the exception of Jordan Norberto, whose suspension begins when he signs with a team, and Alex Rodriguez, whose suspension of 211 games begins on Thursday and is pending an appeal.
(6) The good news is the success rate of the surgery which, judged by those major leaguers that make it back to The Show, approaches 80%.
(7) Wilson says that unlike most major leaguers who are usually the best guys on their team by the age of 11 or 12, he didn’t have the physical tools to match his peers until he was a sophomore in college.
(8) 8.12pm BST The list First things first, who is suspended: Major League players Alex Rodriguez, 3B, New York Yankees Everth Cabrera, SS, San Diego Padres Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Francisco Cervelli, C, New York Yankees Jesus Montero, C, Seattle Mariners Jhonny Peralta, SS, Detroit Tigers Jordany Valdespin, INF, New York Mets Minor leaguers players Sergio Escalona, P, Houston Astros Fernando Martinez, OF, New York Yankees Jordan Norberto, P, free agent Antonio Bastardo, P, Philadelphia Phillies Cesar Puello, OF, New York Mets Updated at 8.27pm BST 8.06pm BST MLB suspends 13 players for involvement in drug scandal Major League Baseball has suspended 13 players due to their involvement with Biogenesis of America, the now closed anti-aging wellness clinic accused of supplying performance-enhancing drugs to MLB players.
(9) Delabar would be an unlikely All-Star, one with a story – which Canada's National Post describes as: Struggling minor-leaguer throws pitch and fractures elbow.
(10) The symptoms and findings were quite similar to the previously reported involvement of the medial epicondylar epiphysis or "Little Leaguer's elbow.