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  • verb Present participle of siege.

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Examples

  • "The best way to protect civilians is for Gadhafi to cease his ruthless, brutal attack on civilians from the west to the east, to withdraw from the cities that he is sieging and attacking and to leave power," she said.

    Libya Rebels Get Cash Injection From Contact Group 2011

  • "The best way to protect civilians is for Gadhafi to cease his ruthless, brutal attack on civilians from the west to the east, to withdraw from the cities that he is sieging and attacking and to leave power," she said.

    Libya Rebels Get Cash Injection From Contact Group 2011

  • "The best way to protect civilians is for Gadhafi to cease his ruthless, brutal attack on civilians from the west to the east, to withdraw from the cities that he is sieging and attacking and to leave power," she said.

    Libya Rebels Get Cash Injection From Contact Group 2011

  • Finally, in the most recent MISTBORN 3 annotations, Brandon mentions talking scenes and the number sixteen, the loss of half the sieging Koloss, and everyone's favorite Koloss, Human.

    Mistborn Minifigs Sale, Updates mistborn 2009

  • The bats would only beat the hens by out-sieging them and she doubted they could do it.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • The thing about 'sacrifice a night' is pretty key to much of the strategy of system sieging, particularly when warring alliances are out of synch timezone wise.

    Sleep is cancelled 2008

  • As you can see from the middle ages, the army that is laying the siege invariably wins unless there is deux ex machina style attack by an allied army to displace the sieging army.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Armenians and Guns: 2007

  • BRENT SADLER, CNN BEIRUT BUREAU CHIEF: Kyra, as you say, the sixth straight day of protests, and in fact the sieging of the prime minister's office complex not far from this demonstration, the Western-backed government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora -- strongly backed by the U.S. administration in this political battle for power in Lebanon that really does have strategic interests for the United States.

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2006 2006

  • Instead of sieging castles, players (even enemies) band together to fight (in game) a group or people that are not playing the game as it was meant to be.

    Archive 2005-12-01 Chris Deweese 2005

  • Instead of sieging castles, players (even enemies) band together to fight (in game) a group or people that are not playing the game as it was meant to be.

    "The Gaming Generation and Libraries: Intersections" -Constance Steinkuehler Chris Deweese 2005

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