Sentence examples for about to assault from inspiring English sources

We had a Qaddafi regime that was moving against its own people in a coordinated military fashion and was about to assault a very large city on the promise that it would show" what Colonel Qaddafi himself called "no mercy".

On August 15, as they were about to assault the much smaller Japanese forces defending the island (about 40,000 samurai and other fighting men), a massive typhoon hit, wrecking the Mongol fleet and once again foiling the invasion attempt.

If you find that you are about to assault a woman, you can hand the whistle to your buddy, so s/he can blow it to call for help.

Fraternity-only parties also cut the legs out from underneath one of the most touted solutions to campus sexual assault, bystander intervention (where friends intervene if they think a peer is about to assault or be assaulted) because it's easy for women to lose their friends, and even sadder, because the prevailing culture imposes social pressures not to intervene.

Barb gave me a look like she was about to physically assault me.

This "sleepy, obscure country town" is about to be assaulted, to use the words of Matthew Harrison Brady, by "a wicked attack from the big cities of the North".

Plus, with the recent Apple TV update that added a bunch of features, it seems the Apple is about to make another assault on the living room.

The second man, Gregory Gill, 21, also of South Jamaica, was about to sexually assault the girl when two patrol officers noticed the cab, a 1997 Lincoln sedan, about 8 a.m., the police said.

I was scared, but he said what we were doing was "normal," as if he was playing house with me, not about to sexually assault me.

The changes erased those provisions, giving people license to use lethal force if they "reasonably believe" they are about to be assaulted.

Frontier legend Davy Crockett (played by Wayne) and his men arrive in San Antonio, Texas, and volunteer to help defend the Alamo, a hopelessly outgunned mission-turned-fort that is about to be assaulted by Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna's Mexican army.