"acts of assault" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to any type of physical or verbal attack against someone. For example: "He was convicted of several acts of assault against his former employer."
The official definition of "coercive and controlling behaviour" is an act or a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used by an individual to harm, punish, or frighten their victim.
Since the late 1970s, these groups have carried out eight murders, 17 attempted murders, 41 bombings, 175 arsons, 100 butyric acid attacks, 663 anthrax and bioterrorism threats, four kidnappings, 178 burglaries and 191 acts of assault and battery.
The behaviour captured in this definition includes: "… a pattern of acts of assault, threats, humiliation and intimidation or other abuse that is used to harm, punish, or frighten their victim".
"Journalists are not above the law and have no right to incite a riot or engage in acts of assault or vandalism," the advocacy group's executive director, Bruce Brown, wrote in February.
To obtain a restraining order, "it was necessary to provide the court with evidence of specific acts of assault, battery, intimidation and threats of harm," says Harry Fain, an L.A. divorce attorney for 45 years and a former chairman of Family Law for the American Bar Assn.
But they did find a couple of troubling links: Men who were stressed about not feeling masculine enough had the highest rates of DWIs and were more likely to commit severe acts of assault (those involving weapons and/or causing injury).
The court felt Suárez's ban broadly fitted the crime – having "committed an act of assault" – but believed extending it beyond the pitch was excessive, even taking into account it was the third time he had been found guilty of biting an opponent after incidents with PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal and Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic.
At what point and under what conditions did settling local scores in the bitterly divided state mutate from a justifiable wartime action to a criminal act of assault or murder?
This post-hoc cut score change is a pernicious act of assault on schools, students, parents and teachers in New York State.
The show was undeniably offensive to some people, but to make the obvious point, there's a big difference between art and representation on the one hand and committing an actual act of assault or violence on the other.
Clearly there are few to no consequences for a rapist even if they are caught in the act of assaulting a defenseless, unconscious person.
