Sentence examples for a small assault from inspiring English sources

Each of these artists was a small assault on hip-hop's self-conception and self-presentation.

This fortification, which consisted of two strongpoints 500 m apart, had been captured on October 9 by a small assault force while Fort Lakekan had been evacuated without any combat on October 8.

Appointed to be commander of the Austrian winter cordon, Dagobert Sigmund von Wurmser ordered a small assault column under the command of Colonel Wilhelm Klebeck to attack the village of Dittersbach.

The weapons included a MAK-90 and a Ewbank, both semiautomatic assault rifles, and a M-11, a smaller assault weapon that is like an Uzi, said Eric Harmon, who prosecuted the case.

It's like a small-scale assault with an X-wing — you can get in there past the shields when it's wrapped in science fiction.

BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's official media reported a series of attacks against government buildings on Monday, including two bombings that targeted two security headquarters in the northern city of Idlib and a small rocket assault on the Central Bank in downtown Damascus.

Horio Yoshiharu then guided Kinoshita Hideyoshi and the small assault force around to the back of the mountain, where they climbed the steep slopes by the light of a full moon.

The purely defensive forces created in 1954 are still constrained from acting in too offensive a manner: last year, a smaller mock assault by Japanese and American forces on an island near Okinawa was canceled because of local opposition.

"If they were after something specific, or were truly seeking entry, you'd think they might use a different tactic, one that's been employed elsewhere — such as a bomb followed by a small-arms assault," the official said.

The Kargil operation was part of Pakistan's policy, pursued for two decades, of weakening India through insurgency and small assaults but avoiding an all-out confrontation that Pakistan would lose.

The Germans fired mortar rounds and machine guns at the paratroopers and attempted small assaults on their positions throughout the night.