Sentence examples for a broadside on from inspiring English sources

He quickly took aim at Wall Street speaking fees — the acceptance of which have become one of Clinton's major vulnerabilities with Democrats — and delivered a broadside on the family that runs Wal-Mart, whose board of directors once included Clinton.

Mr Chrétien faced a broadside on June 3rd, when he gave Parliament his version of the break.

The Lib Dem conference also heard the party's leader, Nick Clegg, launch a broadside on its Conservative coalition partners.

It came after Mr Grayling launched a broadside on the Government's handling of law and order, using violent crime figures to back claims of a broken Britain.

Chris Patten, former chair of the BBC Trust and the Tory party, delivered a broadside on behalf of "besieged" former colleagues.

Alice Bhatti, a Karachi nurse with mysterious healing powers, is at the center of Hanif's blistering comedy, which delivers a broadside on the socially sanctioned butchery of women and girls in Pakistan.

Secretary General Kofi Annan and international law experts rose to a strong defense of United Nations war crimes tribunals for the Balkans and Rwanda today in response to a broadside attack on them on Thursday by the Bush administration's ambassador for war crimes.

"Seattle's Ordinance reflects a broadside attack on the fundamental premises of independent contractor arrangements, as well as the nascent on-demand economy that relies on it," the chamber wrote, in a statement announcing the litigation Thursday.

A recent afternoon yielded a newsprint broadside on the sale of Starrett City, a mock-marketing presentation of T-shirt and baseball-cap designs for the Obama campaign ("Barack n roll!"), and a tacked-up clipping from the Times, listing service personnel newly killed in Iraq, the ages of the dead illumined in highlighter: 21, 22, 21, 21, 22, 26, 27.

A recent afternoon yielded a newsprint broadside on the sale of Starrett City, a mock-marketing presentation of T-shirt and baseball-cap designs for the Obama campaign ("Barack n roll!"), and a tacked-up clipping from the New York Times, listing service personnel newly killed in Iraq, the ages of the dead illumined in highlighter: 21, 22, 21, 21, 22, 26, 27.

Sometimes it can be a broadside attack on a particular orthodoxy.