The phrase "attack launched on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing military actions, cyber attacks, or any aggressive initiatives against a target.
Example: "The attack launched on the enemy's stronghold was meticulously planned for months."
Alternatives: "assault initiated against" or "offensive carried out on".
That was the purpose of the attack launched on Verdun on Feb.
I recalled the story told to me by our colleague cameraman Ammar Hamdan, who was detained together with three of his colleagues as they covered the brutal attack launched on Zawiyah by Gaddafi's troops.
But it would be safer, perhaps, from the sort of attack launched on it by Saddam Hussein 24 years ago.No sign of the ayatollahs falling, then?The American administration's hope that sanctions and other pressures will eventually force a change of regime in Tehran looks, in the foreseeable future, forlorn.
A British attack, launched on September 18 on the front between the Vardar and Lake Doiran, prevented the Bulgars from transferring troops westward against the right flank of the penetration; and by September 19 the Serbian cavalry had reached Kavadarci, at the apex of the Crna Vardar triangle.
Or perhaps the right phrase is "self-conscious and vaguely embarrassed". This conversation was sparked, as media junkies will know, by a bizarre attack launched on Michael Kinsley, now the editorial and opinion editor of the Los Angeles Times, by Susan Estrich, a self-styled feminist.
The cyber attack launched on Nov. 24 shut down Sony's computer network and exposed company secrets.
The attacks launched on the protesters since then by organised mobs are both disturbing and predictable.
Twitter is the platform where media gets its pulse on what's happening, so attacks launched on Twitter are much more likely to be made into mainstream opinion.
Despite the occasional rocket and mortar attacks launched on Kariba by ZIPRA guerrillas on the northern side of the Zambezi (in Zambia), the resort had endured as one of Rhodesia's choice tourist destinations.
Such attacks launched on gender identity and roles by the ethno-nationalist project have been accepted and internalized by some sections of the general public, in some cases by women themselves.
I do not think he deserved re-election, not as a result of the personal attacks launched on him, but because of his defense of the bailouts for special interests.
