'assail' is an English word that can be used in written English.
It is a verb that means to attack someone or something with harsh or aggressive words or actions. For example, "The protesters assailed the mayor with cries of 'shame!'".
She resembles Kato – played by Burt Kwouk, in the Pink Panther films – who is under instruction to assail Inspector Clouseau at any time, which of course means when it is least wanted.
Assuming that Iran is indeed developing nuclear weapons to assail Israel, what better way for Israel to respond but with a clever bit of software, called Stuxnet, to incapacitate Iranian nuclear facilities, such as uranium-enrichment centrifuges at Natanz?
That would have afforded him a good perch from which to assail the government.
Mr Barak made a first, awkward attempt, saying that Labour would assail the "pig capitalism" of the right.
Instead she abandons her pain, drops out of the present into the 15th century, and finds another world in which the inner life takes external shape in myth where devils assail the spirit and angels drive them off, where painted saints listen, and where the journey of the soul passes literally through Venice on its way to Jerusalem.
Yet the biggest danger facing Western finance is not a fall in its earning power but a loss of faith in how it works.Two criticisms assail the industry, one based on fairness and the other on efficiency.
If we make no redress within forty days, the twenty-five barons may distrain upon and assail us in every way possible, including denial-of-service attacks and spearphishing, with the support of the whole ecosystem of the land.Both we and the tech barons have sworn that all this shall be observed in good faith and without deceit.
Minutes later, Russia's Vladimir Putin staged an off-the-cuff press conference in Brazil to assail the sanctions' legitimacy.
Their lobbying efforts and public campaigning are being trumpeted by a number of political groups such as MoveOn.org, which likes to assail Republicans and capitalism.
Mr Khatami's own tactful and amiable style has protected him from the fierce assaults that assail his allies.
But perhaps speedy results should be expected from a firm where the main shareholder, Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, is also the boss of Ferrari.Poltrona Frau has managed to persuade investors that a luxury brand can protect it from the troubles that assail the Italian furniture industry.
