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• For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they believe wrongly that the Holy Spirit convicts believers of their sins.

  Joseph Prince

  Believe, Body Of Christ, Generations

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• What stays with you latest and deepest? of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

  Walt Whitman

  Panic, Engagement, Curious

  Walt Whitman “Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Concerning the prayer that mountains fall to crush and hide, Farrar , says: "These words of Christ met with a painfully literal illustration when hundreds of the unhappy Jews at the siege of Jerusalem hid themselves in the darkest and vilest subterranean recesses, and when, besides those who were hunted out, no less than two thousand were killed by being buried under the ruins of their hiding places."

  Frederic Farrar

  Crush, Prayer, Fall

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• Actors want to impress at the beginning, so you take advantage of that by suddenly saying, 'Right, you're here for two weeks.' What you're doing is creating a siege mentality.

  Danny Boyle

  Two, Creating, Actors

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• Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Taken, Heart

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• To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

  Saint Augustine

  War, Men, Worry

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• For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.

  Frank Delaney

  War, Taken, Together

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• Every funeral may justly be considered as a summons to prepare for that state into which it shows us that we must some time enter; and the summons is more loud and piercing as the event of which it warns us is at less distance. To neglect at any time preparation for death is to sleep on our post at a siege; but to omit it in old age is to sleep at an attack.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Distance, Sleep, Funeral

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• These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich, as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh, from their desks, at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Honesty, Integrity

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1811). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes”, p.115

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• Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.

  Janice Rogers Brown

  Family, War, Moving

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• This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra. The Americans are the people who are under siege.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, People

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• Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that the Japanese would embark on such a mad enterprise.

  Winston Churchill

  War, Taken, Army

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• When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

  Julian Fellowes

  Desperate, Lays, Hard

  "Jolly good Fellowes". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. November 27, 2004.

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• How can you lay siege to a whole country? Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Country, Military

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• Even when conservatives have all the marbles, they still act as if they're under siege. Now that they are under siege, it is no time for them to act as if they're losing their marbles.

  Maureen Dowd

  Political, Losing, Marble

  Maureen Dowd (2005). “Bushworld: Enter at Your Own Risk”, p.340, Penguin

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• Since 9/11 we've been engaged in wars around the world, and General [James] Mattis has been a leading battlefield commander in many of those theaters, including in the April 2004 siege of Fallujah, where the US Marines killed so many people that the municipal soccer stadium in the city had to be turned into a graveyard for the dead.

  James Mattis

  Soccer, War, Marine

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• We will save our Second Amendment, which is totally under siege.

  Donald Trump

  Second Amendment, Amendments, Under Siege

  "Donald Trump’s campaign has become one big airing of grievances". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Energy is under siege by the Obama administration.

  Donald Trump

  Energy, Administration, Under Siege

  Donald Trump during Presidential Debate at Washington University St. Louis, Missouri, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 2016.

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• We need a Supreme Court that in my opinion is going to uphold the Second Amendment, and all amendments, but the Second Amendment, which is under absolute siege.

  Donald Trump

  Second Amendment, Needs, Opinion

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• For siege works against bold and venturesome men should be constructed on one plan, on another against cautious men, and on still another against the cowardly.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Men, Should, Plans

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• I cannot imagine a worse job than being president of these Untied States in these most trying of times. President Barack Obama has been under siege from every side for the entirety of his time in office.

  Beth Broderick

  Jobs, Office, Trying

  "Obama and the Age of Unreason" by Beth Broderick, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I have been battering away at Saturn, returning to the charge every now and then. I have effected several breaches in the solid ring, and now I am splash into the fluid one, amid a clash of symbols truly astounding. When I reappear it will be in the dusky ring, which is something like the state of the air supposing the siege of Sebastopol conducted from a forest of guns 100 miles one way, and 30,000 miles the other, and the shot never to stop, but go spinning away round a circle, radius 170,000 miles.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Gun, Circles, Air

  James Clerk Maxwell (1990). “The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: 1846-1862”, p.538, CUP Archive

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• A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Taken, Law, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

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• childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.

  Kate Green

  Country, Taken, People

  Kate Green (1994). “Black Dreams”, Harpercollins

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• Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Home, Sacrifice

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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