Examples of besieged

• In concert, they besieged the municipal offices to demand reimbursement in cash and threatened to withdraw their labour if this was not conceded.

• Agricultural colleges and experiment stations, however, were increasingly besieged with letters of inquiry from the public30 and it became impossible to ignore the organic movement.

• It begins with a defense of the very enterprise of economic methodology, which is besieged on two different fronts.

• Everybody asked to go to the city, so that the centre of the dominant bureaucracy and aristocracy could be besieged.

• Furthermore, in competitive races, candidates may be besieged by larger numbers of interested and engaged activists.

• As the noon prayer concluded, he was besieged by a swarm of "the poor, beggars, and women" who were hoping for alms.

• Bureaucrats find themselves besieged with requests they no longer have either the official authority or the personal financial means to fulfil.

• And for learners, who sometimes must feel besieged by their mistakes and failings, this is no small thing.

• When besieged, they put military survival ahead of civilian protection.

• Consider a society besieged by rising crime rates.

• The anniversary sermon extolled her virtues, poverty and constant battle against the devil and moved churchgoers to tears, many of whom besieged the nuns for her relics.

• They are the last of the besieged.

• Perhaps it is because of its implication in the besieged, but still hegemonic construction of gender that the fantasies surrounding concealment become so extreme, and so inclusive.

• There are few practices that can rival the genetic engineering of animals as both a symbol of nature besieged and as a catalyst for the mobilization of animal rights protest.

• Howrah bridge was blocked and the station besieged by continuous crowd.