Sentence examples for assailed from inspiring English sources

Following the publication of 'Lycra Louts', Kate was assailed by angry emailing activists.

As he has for months in prospective campaign stops in the early voting states, and throughout his political career, the former mayor of Burlington, Vermont, on Wednesday assailed an economic system that he said has devolved over the past 40 years and eradicated the nation's middle class.

The distinction, once routinely taught in primary schools but now assailed on all sides, especially by train and tube announcers, is being lost duffel bag, duffel coat The fabric was named after Duffel, a town in Belgium dugout Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (or wherever), first mention; thereafter the duke and duchess.

Goya's depiction of a sleeping man – the artist – assailed by monsters of the night is an image of reason's frailty made at the end of the Enlightenment, the great 18th century movement that sought to change the world with encyclopaedias, scientific demonstrations and the first factories.

Last week, talking to the culture, media and sport select committee about the future of the BBC, Hall was assailed by the honourable member for Shipley, Philip Davies.

It finds itself assailed by a pretender to the throne in the shape of Gossip Girl star Blake Lively's Preserve.

Everyone is entitled to their theory as to what went wrong: mine is that from last week's Question Time debate in Leeds, where Ed Miliband was assailed about Labour's alleged overspending, the die was cast.

What a relief The alliance tries to strike back A mysterious death A government assailed Is it a waning influence?

Consumers are assailed every day by messages from companies telling them to get thin.

Those rights are cherished, yet dismissed; defended by a dedicated crew of lawyers and the odd politician, but worn carelessly by most and regularly assailed by blundering governments.

Europeans have been there before, starting with the stream of English public schoolboys who assailed the peak between 1924 and 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary, a New Zealander, and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, a Nepalese, finally reached its summit.In the 44 years since then, Everest has been climbed by hundreds of people.