Sentence examples for a prolonged attack from inspiring English sources

It provokes, Stott writes, "a prolonged attack of ­anxiety".

His father Edward Lowe, 83, was killed in a prolonged attack at the family home in Walkden, Greater Manchester in October 2003 after a drinking session.

The UN and aid agencies fear a prolonged attack could drastically worsen already dire conditions in the city, home to 600,000 people.

In a prolonged attack on the media's news values, he said the press was guilty of devoting more column inches to the death of white, middle-class victims than those from ethnic minorities.

Over four days, Kristy, who was visiting his sister with his siblings from France, was tortured with metal bars, a chisel, a hammer and a pair of pliers in a "prolonged attack of unspeakable savagery and brutality", the court heard.

Jiang's cultural reform movement gradually grew into a prolonged attack on many of the leading cultural and intellectual figures in China and culminated in the Cultural Revolution that by 1966 had begun to sweep the country.

The strategic location of the traffic department - close to several key police units as well as the country's parliament - suggests it could have been chosen as a launching pad for a more prolonged attack, the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul says.

Military commanders at the Pentagon have already drawn up a detailed series of options for striking Iraq in what would very likely be a broad, prolonged attack on Mr. Hussein's Republican Guards and on the sites thought to house chemical and biological weapons, officials said.

Chief among those assaults, he said, were September's 20-hour siege of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul and a similar prolonged attack on the landmark Intercontinental Hotel in the capital three months earlier.

A 16-year-old boy has suffered serious facial injuries in a "vicious and prolonged" attack in Annan.

Four police officers accused of a "serious, gratuitous and prolonged" attack on a British Muslim man are to face prosecution.