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On the eve of the march, Uganda's main opposition leader, Bobi Wine, said security forces had besieged the Kampala headquarters of his National Unity Platform party.

From BBC • Jul. 24, 2024

Afghan officials said clashes were continuing in Kunduz, and a major military operation was planned to retake the strategically important city that the militants had besieged for months.

From Washington Post • Aug. 8, 2021

At a crowd of marchers near Barclays on Tuesday, Ms. Torres looked at her fellow protesters and saw a turning point after three months of hardship from an outbreak that had besieged the city.

From New York Times • Jun. 4, 2020

It took a lot of courage for Peter Lui to go down the sewage drain – but he thought it was better than surrendering to the police who had besieged Polytechnic University in Hong Kong.

From The Guardian • Nov. 27, 2019

The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez