Nevertheless, what was involved was a significant military assault on the territory of a sovereign state on the one hand, and on the other hand, the real possibility of nuclear weapons in the hands of Saddam Hussein.
Since the United States -- and New York in particular -- is the second largest market for ivory after China the new legislation, which also strengthens civil and criminal penalties, is a significant direct assault on the ivory market.
"This is a fundamental assault on one's conscience".
Training did not have a significant effect on HCPs' beliefs about sexual assault.
The director refers to a detail in the film that I had noticed and thought significant: the climax, a two-pronged assault on a crowd of Germans in a Parisian movie theatre, is, in fact, a suicide attack.
Today's attacks were a significant intensification of the assault on Mr. Arafat and his authority.
All the familiar ingredients are there – from the imprecision of the deadly allegation to a series of hugely significant issues becoming lost in a foggy assault on a party leader.
The case was a significant moment in the early civil rights movement, spurring the creation of the N.A.A.C.P.'s Legal Defense Fund and spearheading a nationwide assault on residential segregation.
The assault marks a significant escalation in the long-running insurgency Nigeria faces in its predominantly Muslim north, with Boko Haram extremists mounting a coordinated assault on soldiers using military-grade weaponry.
Like a brutal assault on a teammate.
