Sentence examples for assail as from inspiring English sources

The end result is a piece of legislation that critics on the right can credibly attack as too similar to Obamacare for them to support, and those on the left can assail as a giveaway to insurance companies that reduces the numbers of Americans who have coverage and contains no mechanisms to control health-care costs.

She's historically tough on crime, making her hard to assail as excessively liberal, and on top of that, she's already been vetted by the Senate for her appointment as the attorney general.

That means that Mr. Chirac's control of the presidency and Parliament may be assailed as flawed.

Assailed internally as well as externally, Ava and the Toungoo dynasty fell in 1752.

It was a vista that assailed us as vigorously as the steep ascent we had made to reach the pass.

Islam has been assailed as an intrinsically violent faith.

The columns were later assailed as tacky and were ripped out.

And yet Mr. Bloomberg has been repeatedly assailed as being insensitive to those families left behind.

A new Constitution was passed in 2008 in a referendum that was widely assailed as a sham.

He flashes a peace symbol that, in conjunction with his imposing stature, could predictably be assailed as a gang sign.

This may surprise UK parents, assailed as they are by the notion of education as a competitive race.