1.   Almost ten years had passed since they had first laid siege to the town, and it seemed as strong as ever.

2.   He laid siege to the fortress and gradually weakened it to the point of collapse.

3.   In less than two generations, since the Second World War, they have laid siege to the academic world.

4.   As crowds in Khartoum celebrated, an SPLA spokesperson in Nairobi said that the SPLA had now laid siege to Torit.

5.   And over it all is a past that has laid siege to every sanctioned notion of what a family can or should be.

6.   And second,she has a special prosecutor armed with subpoena power laying siege to the East Wing.

7.   Beltway gossips had been tittering about how Gingrich was planning to take power in the town to which he had successfully laid siege.

8.   A secret militia lays siege to New York City.

9.   A year later, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI laid siege to the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas.

10.   But McCain said he changed his mind when the Serb leaders in Bosnia laid siege to Srebrenica, feeling that only US military pressure would bring peace.