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  • Besieging the regime in Damascus will not stop at the irreversible sequestration and abandonment of the regime, but shall also include preparatory measures for the prosecution of its leaders for committing crimes against civilians.

    Raghida Dergham: Turkey and Iran's Tug on Syria Raghida Dergham 2011

  • Besieging the regime in Damascus will not stop at the irreversible sequestration and abandonment of the regime, but shall also include preparatory measures for the prosecution of its leaders for committing crimes against civilians.

    Raghida Dergham: Turkey and Iran's Tug on Syria Raghida Dergham 2011

  • Besieging Islamist parties that have come to power through a democratic vote, as the US has done with Hamas, or allowing local proxies to rig the vote so as to deprive them of power, as happened in Egypt, only strengthens their hand and increases their popularity.

    A New Deal in Pakistan Dalrymple, William 2008

  • Besieging troops of the Croatian Defense Council (HVO), together with Serb forces, have had the Muslims surrounded since early May.

    Mostar: A Glimpse Of Hell Frozen Over 2008

  • Besieging the offices of a Hamas-run television station.

    CNN Transcript Jun 13, 2007 2007

  • VIEW FAVORITES yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Besieging Ourselves'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = '"American troops in Iraq sit on their Forward Operating Bases; in effect, we are besieging ourselves," writes military analyst William Lind.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Besieging Ourselves 2006

  • SARAJEVO - Besieging Bosnian Serbs seem determined to sever

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1993

  • Modern Fortification, or the Elements of Military Architecture, practised and designed by the latest and most experienced Engineers of this last Age, _Italian_, _French_, _Dutch_ and _English_; and the manner of Defending and Besieging Forts and Places; with the use of a

    The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

  • Besieging artillery was, of necessity, required: we commenced with field artillery.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • "Besieging castles is more in your line than in mine."

    The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890

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