The phrase "atrocious assault" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a particularly brutal or shocking act of violence or aggression.
Example: "The news reported an atrocious assault on a local shopkeeper that left the community in shock."
Alternatives: "horrific attack" or "appalling assault".
He was also convicted on a charge of "atrocious assault and battery" in that same episode.
However, Ban Ki Moon raised the specter of summary executions taking place in a Friday speech in which he blasted Assad government for its "atrocious assault".
According to a 1957 clipping from The Newark Evening News, his wife, Johnnie Mae Ford, was sentenced to Clinton Reformatory on a charge of "atrocious assault and battery" after pouring lye on her husband while he slept and then stabbing him in the back three times.
Appleby reiterated that the jury must consider separately the four assault charges (atrocious assault and battery, assault on a police officer acting in the line of duty, assault with a deadly weapon, and assault with intent to kill), each of which carried a total maximum penalty of 33 years in prison.
Victim blaming, or the act of finding the victim at fault in a sexual assault case, is an atrocious occurrence in our society.
That such guns can be sold legally to civilians is an atrocious idea, and renewing the federal assault weapons ban that lapsed in 2004 would be a good place to start attacking the problem.
Just hours after the armed assault, Gingrich appeared on Fox News to announce that the atrocious armed assault is "part of a pattern.... an increasing intensity of hostility on the left".
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon had earlier spoken out on the situation, describing an Israeli assault on the densely populated Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza as "an atrocious action".
Many suffer atrocious abuses at the hands of their smugglers: they are robbed, sexually assaulted or simply abandoned in the desert.
