| Conservatives tend to thrive on a sense of besiegement, a belief that they're surrounded on all sides by enemies seen and unseen who must be destroyed. |
| It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms. |
| Because political opponents do consider their antagonists competent, this besiegement is of the mind. |
| The narrative of besiegement manifests itself in both Westerns and combat films. |
| This anger and frustration stems from a sense of cultural besiegement, which they are finding can never be dealt with through the attainment of power alone. |
| But besiegement and cutting water supplies go back centuries. |
