Sentence examples for assail a from inspiring English sources

The controversy was a godsend for the Republicans, who could assail a female candidate without being accused of sexism.

How about television commercials, the most naked blade in a capitalist's armory, being used to assail a government that has reintroduced market forces?

Among the many scars of the recession, the most intolerable should be the pangs of chronic hunger that still assail a stunning 14.5 percent of the nation's households, according to the Department of Agriculture's latest survey.

At one point the police fired dozens of canisters of tear gas to beat back a crowd of 300 stick-wielding demonstrators trying to assail a hotel housing foreigners.

OO Law Professors Issue Takedown Of Decision Striking Fracking Rule - dozens of law professors banded together this week to assail a federal court's recent decision striking down the Obama administration's hydraulic fracturing rule.

Critics assailed a trail of deaths and injuries that followed him, including some involving family members.

Government officials assailed a national strike, which went into its second day, as futile and unproductive.

Most of all, they have assailed a basic plank in China's reform platform: improved and stable relations with America.

Mr. Stevens was assailing a proposed amendment to a bill in the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; he is the committee chairman.

Now North Korea's official news agency has assailed a plan by the South Korean military to stage a live-fire exercise from Yeonpyeong Island, perhaps as early as Saturday.

The pitch will underscore the Republican obstructions Mr. Obama has faced, and a time when critics across the political spectrum are assailing a "do-nothing Congress".