Sentence examples for a spirited attack from inspiring English sources

In 1960, Jane Jacobs's "Death and Life of Great American Cities" sparked a spirited attack on the modernist concepts of master planning that then prevailed.

"Smith provided a spirited attack on mercantilism for its extraordinary restraints, but he did not extend the attack to government and law in general.

In Against Moral Responsibility, Bruce Waller launches a spirited attack on a system that is profoundly entrenched in our society and its institutions, deeply rooted in our emotions, and vigorously defended by philosophers from ancient times to the present.

With criticism of the police infusing the Democratic race to succeed him, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg on Tuesday offered a staunch defense of the New York Police Department, as well as a spirited attack against its critics.

He won Labour cheers for a spirited attack on the Coalition's economic record in which he lambasted George Osborne for unveiling a "Budget which people won't believe from a Government they don't trust".

Man Booker prize-winning author Hilary Mantel delivered a spirited attack on her critics after the BBC was condemned over plans to broadcast her "mischievous" short story on the imagined assassination of Margaret Thatcher.

But a draw seemed a fair result after a spirited attacking performance from two sides making light of the absence of some of their most creative players.

Miller announced his intentions by crashing Finn over long-off for six as he led a spirited counter attack with Kleinveldt, who replaced the injured Dale Steyn.

Does he know about your spirited attack on the S.E.C.? If not, do you think he would approve?

The four soloists, separate from the choir, sang with clarity and earnestness; the violins of Concert Royal played with spirited attack.

New York's spirited attack on the notion that it deserved anything less than the entire island got an attentive but skeptical hearing today.