(n.) The camp of a besieging army; a camp in general.
(n.) A siege or beleaguering.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beleaguer.
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.
Siege
Definition:
(n.) A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
(n.) Hence, place or situation; seat.
(n.) Rank; grade; station; estimation.
(n.) Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.
(n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.
(n.) Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.
(n.) The floor of a glass-furnace.
(n.) A workman's bench.
(v. t.) To besiege; to beset.
Example Sentences:
(1) Waco, Texas, will forever be known for the siege that began in February 1993 when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms raided a compound owned by the Branch Davidian religious sect to investigate allegations of weapons hoarding.
(2) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(3) 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.
(4) Libraries were already under siege before the recession struck.
(5) As we settle down to chat in the deputy prime minister's ramshackle constituency base at 85 Netherfield Road, Sheffield, it is hard to dispel the impression that he's still a man under siege.
(6) Meanwhile Burnham is a blue Scouser, and nobody really hates Evertonians because they make sweets, and haven’t beaten anyone of note since Prince Rupert’s siege of 1644 .
(7) In 1993, at the Branch Davidian religious compound outside Waco, Texas, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms didn’t wait for the sect leader, David Koresh, to leave before attempting to arrest him and got into a gun battle that claimed 10 victims and led to a disastrous 51-day siege culminating in dozens more deaths.
(8) Madaya is an example of where over a million Syrians remain under siege with extremely limited medical evacuations today.” Speaking on behalf of the Syrian NGO alliance, Fadi Al-Dairi, the co-founder of Hand in Hand for Syria, told the Guardian: “We have been cooperating with OCHA, but we would add our points and OCHA Damascus would remove them.
(9) He didn't even mind the National Front turning up and sieg-heiling during gigs, which seems enormously sporting of him, given his raft of horrifying stories about experiencing racism in 60s and 70s Britain, and the scars he still bears as the result of a racially motivated 1980 knife attack.
(10) The noise was back and so was the siege, the ball thrown into the area, bodies flying.
(11) Sydney siege inquest: hostage pleaded with police to storm Lindt cafe urgently Read more They had taken cover after the final group to escape the siege had successfully fled in the early hours of 16 December 2014.
(12) The mood did not improve in 1980 when Iran's London embassy was taken over by Iraqi-backed gunmen before the siege was dramatically ended by the SAS hostage rescue.
(13) Killer Mike and Talib Kweli both appeared on news channels such as CNN and Fox to offer measured words on the situation (Killer Mike: “We have essentially gone from being communities that were policed by people from the communities to being communities that are policed by strangers, and that’s no longer a community, that’s an area that’s under siege”), while Common interrupted the MTV Video Music Awards to deliver a considered monologue on Ferguson , calling for a moment of silence “for Mike Brown and for peace in this country and in the world”.
(14) The second half came to resemble a siege, with Tottenham committing numbers forward and creating openings, and Newcastle struggling to escape their half.
(15) So they'll free a few hostages, but continue siege?
(16) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(17) Ohler’s book may well irritate some historians; he makes flippant remarks and uses chapter titles such as “Sieg High!” and “High Hitler”.
(18) The inquest heard at times harrowing detail about how gangs of local teenagers and children, some as young as 10, had the family "under siege".
(19) An orderly process of dealing with asylum claims at the earliest point would be infinitely preferable to desperate families laying siege to central European railway stations, risking their lives clinging on to vehicles at Calais or suffocating in vehicles transporting them across borders.
(20) He says incidents like that which left Omran Daqneesh stunned and bloodied are all too common in a city under siege The pictures of the injured five-year old Omran Daqneesh have shocked the world, but doctors in Aleppo see dozens of desperate children like him every week, often with worse injuries and many entirely beyond help.