The phrase "attack was driven" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the motivation or cause behind an attack, often in a context related to military, cybersecurity, or sports.
Example: "The attack was driven by a desire to gain control over the territory."
Alternatives: "attack was motivated" or "attack was fueled".
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) Commissioner Bob Paulson has said that they are analysing the video, which appeared to be "persuasive evidence that Michael Zehaf-Bibeau's attack was driven by ideological and political motives".
"Under heavy machine-gun fire consolidation was continued, and after midnight another determined enemy attack was driven off.
This first attack was driven off by the British paratroopers.
There a Spanish attack was driven off and over the next two days the army continued inland, a detachment under Colonel Henry Paget seizing Port Mahon while the main army received the surrender of town after town, including Fournella, which overlooked the island's principal protected anchorage.
The attack is driven by the imagined ideal of the cloistered monk-justice, innocent of worldly vanities, free of political connections and guided only by the gem-like flame of inward conscience.
Cox & Kings (020 7873 5000; coxandkings.co.uk) has a seven-day tour of the island that starts in Larnaca, then moves north where Othello, having been sent to defend Cyprus from attack, is driven mad with the conviction that his wife, Desdemona is being unfaithful.
The current results further indicate that the susceptibility of plant communities to herbivore attack is driven by a complex interaction between belowground detritivores, the community composition and productivity of grassland plant communities and the feeding behaviour of this generalist herbivore.
Speaking at the UN Security Council, Mr Ban said it was human nature for oppressed peoples to react to occupation, adding that a recent wave of attacks was driven by a "profound sense of alienation and despair" among some Palestinians.
"There is no question that this wave of attacks was driven directly by the incitement, the incitement of Hamas, the incitement of the Islamist movement in Israel and the incitement, I am sorry to say, from president Abbas and the Palestinian Authority," he said.
Four hours and thousands of rounds of ammunition later, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who investigators say is a senior operative of Al Qaeda intimately involved in the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks, was driven away from the building bound and blindfolded.
These attacks are driven by envy," she said.
