Sentence examples for attack on the grounds from inspiring English sources

"An attacking party is not relieved from the obligation to take into account the risk to civilians from an attack on the grounds that the defending party has located military targets within or near populated areas," said Human Rights Watch, which is based in New York.

In the later 20th century, as waves of critical theory broke over the academy, the idea of the canon came under attack on the grounds that it was a club for dead white males, that it excluded much other work of value and interest, that it must be dismantled or at any rate radically revised.

Is that an infringement of civil liberties?" "I don't see why it should be argued that if there is a civic obligation to vote and being able to abstain there should be attack on the grounds that our civil liberties are being undermined".

Two police officers who witnessed the incident -- a detective who had been assigned to the Red Sox' bullpen and an officer assigned to the Yankees' bullpen -- said in the report that Yankee players engaged in "an unprovoked attack" on the grounds-crew member, who had been cheering for the Red Sox.

In the chaos, a man fell ill and started having a heart attack on the ground.

Four justices would have upheld the program against all attack on the ground that the government can use race to "remedy disadvantages cast on minorities by past racial prejudice".

Peshmerga fighters, members of the Kurdistan workers' party (PKK) and the people's protection units (YPG) from Syria, and the Yazidi armed units have taken part in the latest attack on the ground, while coalition aircraft have provided air cover.

Algerian Prime Minister Abdelmalek Sellal said the attack on the ground is thought to have been led by an Algerian, Amine Benchenab, who was known to security forces and killed during the attack.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay "Batman, Deviance, and Camp" that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because "he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality".

It has also been claimed that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because "he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality," and "the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp".

He admitted that the Taliban are "blowing up" schools, but justified the attacks on the grounds that the Pakistani army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps use schools as hideouts.