The phrase "assailed from" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe being attacked or criticized from a particular direction or source.
Example: "The politician felt assailed from all sides during the debate, facing tough questions from the audience."
Alternatives: "attacked from" or "criticized by".
It has been assailed from every side for the way it has run TARP.
Minaya, meanwhile, is being assailed from all sides for his misfired shot at the messenger.
She is assailed from all sides, by friends and enemies alike.
A29 Governor's Changing Fortunes Governor Pataki, who coasted to a third term five months ago, today is being assailed from all sides.
As Wail Qasim rightly argued, such a step would be hugely oppressive to benefits claimants at a time when they are being assailed from all sides.
Yet before the conference the debate over public services was remarkably stormy, with the Mr Huhne approach being assailed from right and left.
But the backdrop of this year's big game is undeniably gloomy, with the N.C.A.A. scrambling to keep the whole assailed-from-all-sides system from imploding in a fireball of hypocrisy.
The suspicions around Linda Sarsour, a community worker from Brooklyn and one of the high-profile Muslim women being assailed, rose from family members who had been in Israeli jails and were possible supporters of radical groups.
Trujillo is described by one character as "the devil," who had inflicted more suffering on the country than it had sustained "in its history of Haitian occupation, Spanish and American invasions, civil wars, battles among factions and caudillos, and in all the catastrophes — earthquakes, hurricanes — that had assailed Dominicans from the sky, the sea, or the center of the earth".
Looking through a small aperture, I saw one of the birds waddling about in a very excited manner over the sand-covered space, which was perhaps 2 by 3 feet square, and it was so much interested in its own performance that it did not notice me, although I made some noise trying to fight off a swarm of mosquitoes which assailed me from all sides.
Despite the cacophony of gasps, wails and screeches that assailed him from all four sides, that clunk sticks in the mind of Lehmann to this day.
