The phrase "a savage assault" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a violent or brutal attack, often in a figurative sense to emphasize the severity of the action.
Example: "The news reported a savage assault on the peaceful protest, leaving many injured and shocked."
Alternatives: "a brutal attack" or "a vicious assault".
On the other, it can be read as a savage assault on bungled US policy during the first Gulf War.
And that was just the opening salvo in what seems in retrospect a savage assault by the gods of the theater on one of its most favored sons.
And the authorities never vigorously investigated a savage assault and rape that occurred in Central Park two days before the jogger was attacked.
Egypt was accused of making a savage assault on free speech on Sunday, after its cabinet drafted a law that criminalises the reporting of terrorism statistics that differ from those the government provides.
Mark Ravenhill has taken Voltaire's laconically witty satire on 18th-century philosophy and turned it into a savage assault on modern myopic optimism and a meditation on the nature of narrative.
Among them was 37-year-old Yusuf Idris, who bought a $40£2626) home-made musket and joined his friends in a civilian vigilante effort after a savage assault in 2013 turned Baga into Nigeria's new ground zero against Boko Haram.
The author, Peter Baker, reminds us that some of the neighbors who witnessed parts of her rape and murder from their windows likely mistook the savage assault by a stranger for a man exercising his rights over "his" woman.
Immediately after news of the savage assault broke, an apprehensive public leapt to the conclusion that the perpetrators were driven by an obvious motive: they robbed a child of his sight to turn a quick profit in China's thriving black market for organs.
But he didn't show it to a commission that he formed in 1997 to reassess police-community relations after the savage assault on Abner Louima in a Brooklyn station house.
"I don't think they've lost their edge," he said of Anderson and Graeme Swann, whose respectable overnight figures were dented by a savage early assault from Watson.
It's a lethal line, spinning self-pity out of cretinism, and, at moments like this, with innocence cozying up to indifference, you realize what a savage, Swiftian assault Baron Cohen could, if he put his mind to it, launch at our moral unknowingness.
