Sentence examples for attack on a member from inspiring English sources

What happened in New York was certainly an armed attack on a member, though not by a recognizable state.

"This attack on a member of the armed forces is dishonourable, and no cause justifies this murder".

Rightly viewing 9/11 as an attack on a member state, NATO offered to send troops to fight alongside America in Afghanistan.

Detective Constable Johnny Baker, from the Met's Flying Squad, said: "This was a very violent and horrific attack on a member of the public who was working alone in the shop".

The England and Wales Cricket Board said in a statement on Wednesday that Warner had "initiated an unprovoked physical attack on a member of the England team in a Birmingham bar".

It was the latest attack on a member of an Awakening Council, a group of Sunni men once allied with insurgent groups like Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia but who switched sides and are now aligned with American forces and the Iraqi government.

The rising tensions between Turkey and Syria are seen as especially troublesome because Turkey is a member of NATO, which considers an attack on one member an attack on all, and this implicitly raises the possibility that NATO will be drawn into a volatile Middle East conflict.

THOUGH the United States will have welcomed the solidarity of its European allies this week NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time, reminding the world that it considers an attack on one member an attack on all the Europeans were nonetheless conscious that in military matters they still rely on America.

Article 5 of the Washington Treaty, which created NATO in 1949 and calls an attack on one member an attack on all, has been invoked once - to help defend the United States after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

In response to the atrocity, NATO for the first time invoked its article 5 provision that an attack on one member is an attack on all, signalling a willingness to help America militarily.

But the request was a delicate one for NATO, an alliance obligated by treaty to respond to an attack on one member as an attack on all.