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The emergency that exists nationally has arrived in Nevada right now, voting rights and the process of voting are under siege. – Athar Haseebullah	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Civilization itself is right now under siege and we can't be just politically correct. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the Russian Armed Forces and their proxies' continued targeting of Ukraine's civilian population and civilian infrastructure, as well as their siege of the city of Mariupol. – Rosemary DiCarlo	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Unfortunately, in the last 13 days, our city is under siege. – Rabbi Mendel Cohen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's going to get worse before it gets better because a lot of people that will start coming from the more eastern, northern territories have been bombed for a few weeks and under siege and will have a lot of health issues, will have no friends or families, they have no means. So this really needs to be addressed. – Victoria Spartz	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege, relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers. – Vadym Boychenko	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
It's my personal opinion that this guy is going to have to create some new crisis, do something to reset the strategic balance and force everyone to the table with him, it could be a combination of things, including a siege of Kyiv where 3 million people are being starved to death. – Marco Rubio	Found on CNN 2 years ago
This is a very big and great thing for us because we broke the siege of America and foreign countries. ... We are working with the help of God and our great mother Iran. – Nabiha Idriss	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation. – Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad	Found on CNN 2 years ago
On the morning of Wednesday, July 7, he called me and told me that, sadly, they got there to protect someone important but that they arrived late. He told me they were in a house, under siege and under fire, fighting. But he told me not to worry and not to tell our mother, that everything was going to be alright. – Jenny Capodor	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The magnitude of( Hamas) bombing is much bigger and the precision is much better in this conflict, it’s shocking what they’ve been able to do under siege. – Mkhaimar Abusada	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At a time when the AAPI community is under siege, this bill is an important signal that Congress is taking anti-Asian racism and hatred seriously. – Mazie Hirono	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
I do n’t understand how this is a story. How is she supposed to know who was on the other side of the door ? How is she supposed to know how many people were on the other side of the door ? This has nothing to do with anything AOC or whatever, but I kept trying to figure out how the people that were actually involved in that siege, and all the chaos, could be criticizing someone else who was involved in it, she was explaining how, what she thought was going on in her particular situation. – Don Lemon	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Portland is not a city under siege. Today, I went to a Starbucks downtown, ate lunch at one of the city's famous downtown food trucks, and bought a new pair of shoes at the mall. As I write this, I'm looking out of my hotel room at a bike tour riding by outside on the downtown street, to be sure, there have been protests -- peaceful during the daytime, and some turning violent at night -- for over 90 days, but the rioting has largely been confined to one city block downtown near the federal courthouse. Last night, protesters showed up at a police precinct a few miles from downtown and were dispersed by police after some protesters started throwing eggs and rocks at police cars. There has been periodic, localized violence, but nothing widespread. – Josh Campbell	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Ron Johnson allow for peaceful protesters, but Ron Johnson don't allow -- Ron Johnson don't allow peaceful protests to turn siege into siege. Listen, I don't want to see anybody lose their life, i don't want to see the violence continue. I don't want to see businesses burn down. I don't want to see economic destruction. I condemn it all. – Mandela Barnes	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Whatever is done, states experiencing these increases in severe illness and with health care facilities under siege need help and a plan B, because plan A, reopening with lukewarm or no adherence to masks or social distancing clearly did not work. – Jeanne Marrazzo	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Although Floyd was a trigger, the protests were as much about institutional racism and deaths of black people in police custody in the UK, the whole atmosphere has been enflamed by the terrible black death toll from Covid, which has left the community feeling under siege. – Diane Abbott	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Tell your congregation that... we have 350 million people in our country. They're proud Americans, and they respect what we're doing, even those that you don't think so much, like us, respect us, want to be with us, they're respecting our fight. And we are in a fight. Religion in this country and religion all over the world, certain religions in particular, are under siege. We won't let that happen. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Just as we believe in the First Amendment, we also believe in another constitutional right that is under siege all across our country. So long as I am President Donald Trump, I will always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms. – President Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
The women and children of this country are under siege. ... South Africa is one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman, with levels of violence that are comparable to countries that are at war. – Cyril Ramaphosa	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We are living under siege for more than 1-1/2 decades due to sectarian attacks, though all these checkposts were established for our security, we feel we were ourselves also cut off from other communities. – Sardar Sahil	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
PG&E's violations during the 2017 fire siege are extensive and disturbing, and go to basic requirements, such as the failure to maintain adequate records, we will consider all appropriate sanctions in response. – The CPUC	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think that Michael Wolff `` Siege gets crazier and crazier. That Donald Trump is more isolated, more alone. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Michael Wolff `` Siege. – John Berman	Found on CNN 4 years ago

The emergency that exists nationally has arrived in Nevada right now, voting rights and the process of voting are under siege.

– Athar Haseebullah

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Civilization itself is right now under siege and we can't be just politically correct.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The European Union condemns in the strongest possible terms the Russian Armed Forces and their proxies' continued targeting of Ukraine's civilian population and civilian infrastructure, as well as their siege of the city of Mariupol.

– Rosemary DiCarlo

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Unfortunately, in the last 13 days, our city is under siege.

– Rabbi Mendel Cohen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's going to get worse before it gets better because a lot of people that will start coming from the more eastern, northern territories have been bombed for a few weeks and under siege and will have a lot of health issues, will have no friends or families, they have no means. So this really needs to be addressed.

– Victoria Spartz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The city is in a very, very difficult state of siege, relentless shelling of residential blocks is ongoing, airplanes have been dropping bombs on residential areas. The Russian occupants are using heavy artillery, including Grad multiple rocket launchers.

– Vadym Boychenko

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It's my personal opinion that this guy is going to have to create some new crisis, do something to reset the strategic balance and force everyone to the table with him, it could be a combination of things, including a siege of Kyiv where 3 million people are being starved to death.

– Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is a very big and great thing for us because we broke the siege of America and foreign countries. ... We are working with the help of God and our great mother Iran.

– Nabiha Idriss

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I don't think I paused to process what had happened on 9/11, because I was too busy responding. I couldn't grieve, because I felt under siege, everything changed suddenly. The ground beneath our feet was shifting. At the same time, there was no way as an Bangladeshi American, Berkeley-educated Muslim woman I would cower in this situation.

– Nadia AhmadNadia Ahmad

Found on CNN
2 years ago

On the morning of Wednesday, July 7, he called me and told me that, sadly, they got there to protect someone important but that they arrived late. He told me they were in a house, under siege and under fire, fighting. But he told me not to worry and not to tell our mother, that everything was going to be alright.

– Jenny Capodor

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The magnitude of( Hamas) bombing is much bigger and the precision is much better in this conflict, it’s shocking what they’ve been able to do under siege.

– Mkhaimar Abusada

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At a time when the AAPI community is under siege, this bill is an important signal that Congress is taking anti-Asian racism and hatred seriously.

– Mazie Hirono

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I do n’t understand how this is a story. How is she supposed to know who was on the other side of the door ? How is she supposed to know how many people were on the other side of the door ? This has nothing to do with anything AOC or whatever, but I kept trying to figure out how the people that were actually involved in that siege, and all the chaos, could be criticizing someone else who was involved in it, she was explaining how, what she thought was going on in her particular situation.

– Don Lemon

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Portland is not a city under siege. Today, I went to a Starbucks downtown, ate lunch at one of the city's famous downtown food trucks, and bought a new pair of shoes at the mall. As I write this, I'm looking out of my hotel room at a bike tour riding by outside on the downtown street, to be sure, there have been protests -- peaceful during the daytime, and some turning violent at night -- for over 90 days, but the rioting has largely been confined to one city block downtown near the federal courthouse. Last night, protesters showed up at a police precinct a few miles from downtown and were dispersed by police after some protesters started throwing eggs and rocks at police cars. There has been periodic, localized violence, but nothing widespread.

– Josh Campbell

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Ron Johnson allow for peaceful protesters, but Ron Johnson don't allow -- Ron Johnson don't allow peaceful protests to turn siege into siege. Listen, I don't want to see anybody lose their life, i don't want to see the violence continue. I don't want to see businesses burn down. I don't want to see economic destruction. I condemn it all.

– Mandela Barnes

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Whatever is done, states experiencing these increases in severe illness and with health care facilities under siege need help and a plan B, because plan A, reopening with lukewarm or no adherence to masks or social distancing clearly did not work.

– Jeanne Marrazzo

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although Floyd was a trigger, the protests were as much about institutional racism and deaths of black people in police custody in the UK, the whole atmosphere has been enflamed by the terrible black death toll from Covid, which has left the community feeling under siege.

– Diane Abbott

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Tell your congregation that... we have 350 million people in our country. They're proud Americans, and they respect what we're doing, even those that you don't think so much, like us, respect us, want to be with us, they're respecting our fight. And we are in a fight. Religion in this country and religion all over the world, certain religions in particular, are under siege. We won't let that happen.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Just as we believe in the First Amendment, we also believe in another constitutional right that is under siege all across our country. So long as I am President Donald Trump, I will always protect your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

– President Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The women and children of this country are under siege. ... South Africa is one of the most unsafe places in the world to be a woman, with levels of violence that are comparable to countries that are at war.

– Cyril Ramaphosa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are living under siege for more than 1-1/2 decades due to sectarian attacks, though all these checkposts were established for our security, we feel we were ourselves also cut off from other communities.

– Sardar Sahil

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

PG&E's violations during the 2017 fire siege are extensive and disturbing, and go to basic requirements, such as the failure to maintain adequate records, we will consider all appropriate sanctions in response.

– The CPUC

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think that Michael Wolff `` Siege gets crazier and crazier. That Donald Trump is more isolated, more alone.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Michael Wolff `` Siege.

– John Berman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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