Sentence examples for attack on the institutions from inspiring English sources

The nation's fears seemed confirmed — the anarchists had initiated their terrorist attack on the institutions of civic order.

Denys Arcand's 1989 gem Jesus of Montreal seems at first glance to be a witheringly satirical attack on the institutions of Catholicism.

In firing Comey after allegedly pressing him to drop the Flynn investigation, Trump grossly abused his power, and launched a serious attack on the institutions of American democracy.

Without denying that the Progressive movement was weakened by a tension between reforms that diminished democracy and those that might make democracy more direct, its central thrust was an attack on the institutions and practices that sustained the decentralized republic of the 19th century and posed an obstacle to the creation of a more-active, better-equipped national state.

Nor could the war be won without a direct attack on the institution of slavery, which was the basis of the South's political cohesion and economic strength.

This sauce, it turns out, is a prelude to a more sustained attack on the institution of marriage and the shackles of conventional home life.

For five days last week, the White House and its Capitol Hill allies did urgent battle against what they perceive, or say they perceive, as an attack on the institution of marriage.

By Hendrik Hertzberg For five days last week, the White House and its Capitol Hill allies did urgent battle against what they perceive, or say they perceive, as an attack on the institution of marriage.

In the South, her indictment of slavery through the odious figure of Legree was likened to a "malignant" attack on the institution of marriage, as if she had chosen a wife-beater to represent "the normal condition of the relation" between loving spouses.

In both cases, the ticket I strongly support has missed an opportunity to speak for these Americans, who are deeply troubled by the undermining of this sanctity and by the attack on the institution of marriage between a man and a woman.

McDonald sees this as an attack on the institution of slavery.