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And then on May 5th, 1945, the siege came to a sudden end when Holland was liberated by the Allies.
Decades after the "Hunger Winter," researchers documented that people whose mothers were pregnant during the siege have more obesity, more diabetes and more heart disease in later life than individuals who were gestated under normal conditions.
And in fact, one particular instance where I think that actually happens was the Dubrovka Theater siege in Moscow in 2002, which probably a lot of you, unlike most of my students at ADFA, are old enough to remember.
At one point during the 60-hour siege, the terrorists were going room to room trying to find additional victims.
During the Mumbai siege, terrorists were so dependent on technology that several witnesses reported that as the terrorists were shooting hostages with one hand, they were checking their mobile phone messages in the very other hand.
During this 60-hour siege on Mumbai, 10 men armed not just with weapons, but with technology, were able to bring a city of 20 million people to a standstill.
So here we have this incredible field, which has enormous hope for humanity, but much like IVF over 35 years ago, until the birth of a healthy baby, Louise, this field has been under siege politically and financially.
The siege went on for three and a half years, and it was a siege without water, without power, without electricity, without heat, without food, in the middle of Europe, in the middle of the 20th century.
I had the honor of being one of those reporters that lived through that siege, and I say I have the honor and the privilege of being there because it's taught me everything, not just about being a reporter, but about being a human being.
What it was, was the 20th anniversary of the siege, the beginning of the siege of Sarajevo, and I don't like the word "anniversary," because it sounds like a party, and this was not a party.
And the thing that struck me the most, that broke my heart, was walking down the main street of Sarajevo, where my friend Aida saw the tank coming 20 years ago, and in that road were more than 12,000 red chairs, empty, and every single one of them symbolized a person who had died during the siege, just in Sarajevo, not in all of Bosnia, and it stretched from one end of the city to a large part of it, and the saddest for me were the tiny little chairs for the children.
This little creature survives under siege like that, but not only does it survive, it has thrived.
Unspirited, un-African, uncultured, under siege in the streets.
From existing oral tradition, audiences knew the tales of the long siege, the epic duels outside the city walls, and the cunning trick that finally won the war.
When I arrived in Kiev, on February 1 this year, Independence Square was under siege, surrounded by police loyal to the government.
But then, in 48 BCE, Julius Caesar laid siege to Alexandria and set the ships in the harbor on fire.
It's possible the fire destroyed part of the sprawling collection, but we know from ancient writings that scholars continued to visit the library for centuries after the siege.
With the siege on Gaza, tunnels brought people all the basic needs like food, building material, other stuff we needed.
Yet, Debby Herbenick, a researcher at Indiana University, believes that girls' genital self-image is under siege, with more pressure than ever to see them as unacceptable in their natural state.
And with that, I would like to leave you with a quote from Arundhati Roy, and she writes ... "Our strategy should not be only to confront Empire, but to lay siege to it.
The siege, the wars, the bombs, the protests or the death toll.
Across cultures and time periods, there's evidence of survival cannibalism, when people living through a famine, siege or ill-fated expedition had to either eat the bodies of the dead or starve to death themselves.
This prolonged siege would be Christophe’s first encounter with violent revolution.
The story of an almost deserted police station under siege by an unseen LA gang, it was a minor hit on the drive-in circuit and garnered small praise from the few critics who cared, but it hardly set the film world on fire, unlike Carpenter's follow-up smash Halloween (1978).
And as for the battle scenes (which, in contrast to some commentors claims, do take up a good 15% of screentime)- they look like look like some some History Club from your local high school recreating a medieval siege, although the kids would no doubt put more passion into it.
When the people are layed siege on, cops have to team up with cons to survive.
Even if you're a fan of his i strongly recommend you keep away from this film and watch under siege or even on deadly ground instead.
Meanwhile, the hospital is under siege by a group of agitators who don't want it to turn a condemned building into a cancer center.
Like most people, when the siege at Waco was occurring I assumed that David Koresh was a completely evil madman who was leading a violent cult.
To add to his growing list of personal obstacles, his main reason for being, his hospital has come under siege by students and neighborhood protesters, incompetent doctors like Dr. Welbeck (Richard Dysart) and a mysterious MD. who is killing both patients and doctors alike, because he believes he is "the Wrath of the Lamb."
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