Sentence examples for assailants for from inspiring English sources

Many sailors gladly joined their assailants: for them, a short life as a pirate sounded better than ill-paying drudgery.Mr Rediker's boldest claim is that piracy was as much about liberty as plunder.

Detectives investigating the brutal beating of a Jersey City man in Manhattan's theater district believe that the attack began after the victim asked one of his assailants for a cigarette and then admired his jewelry, the police said yesterday.

The third attorney, George Nares, concentrated on the societal problems of prosecuting Canning for perjury, implying that other victims of crime would be less likely to pursue their assailants, for fear of being prosecuted themselves.

Sergeant Roe and his cousin grappled with the assailant for the pipe.

Although she is fully willing to waive her anonymity, the Guardian is unable to identify her or her alleged assailant for legal reasons.

The school suspended the assailant for eight months, but Gilchriese said it took four weeks to remove the defendant from campus.

Will you text before you get mugged, so that your body can be located the next day, or will you ask your assailant for a timeout, so you can use your phone-a-friend lifeline?

In another case, the complaint claims, the university refused to explain to one victim the reasoning behind its suspension of her assailant for a single semester -- a punishment she felt was too light.

In those situations, they are taught how to intervene in ways that can be non-confrontational, employing tactics such as creating a distraction -- telling the would-be assailant, for instance, that his car is being towed.

The phony shooting comes less than a month after a Colorado man told police that he was stabbed by an assailant for looking like a "neo-Nazi," only to later admit that he had fabricated the whole thing and actually just stabbed himself.

"Impunity for assailants of journalists and broadcasters is escalating the tensions and contributing to the deterioration of the security situation," Mijatovic said in a statement from OSCE headquarters in Vienna.