| 1 | Bloomberg NewsYou may have read somewhere that Yahoo's board has been under siege. | |
| 2 | Finding himself under fire from all quarters, he had no alternative but to abandon his scheme for the time being. | |
| 3 | As domestic consumption booms, China' s export-oriented manufacturers are under siege. | |
| 4 | This idiom is used metaphorically to mean to be in a helpless and critical situation, surrounded by the enemy on all sides. | |
| 5 | President Obama has again demanded that the embattled Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi step down. |