Sentence examples for attacks knocking from inspiring English sources

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The phrase "attacks knocking" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe a situation where attacks are occurring simultaneously with knocking, but the phrasing is awkward and unclear.
Example: "The sudden attacks knocking at the door startled everyone inside."
Alternatives: "assaults pounding" or "strikes banging".

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Okay, the site is up with all the bandwidth it needs, but then hackers launch denial-of-service attacks, knocking out the site for days.

Six months after the indictment was unsealed, in January 2012, Anonymous launched one of its largest attacks, knocking offline the Justice Department's website in protest of the U.S. government's arrest of leaders of Megaupload.com, a file-sharing site that allegedly facilitates Internet piracy.

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But they did, and government attacks knocked out phone service.

A previously unknown group calling itself the Secret Organisation al-Qaeda's Jihad in Europe said it carried out the attacks as revenge for British "military massacres" in Iraq and Afghanistan but whether that was any more than gruesome opportunism was anybody's guess.The attacks knocked out the capital's transport.

While sprinting, your attacks knock back enemies.

I shot the cub first, but this made its mother so angry that she attacked, knocking my friend Lester down.

While not quite faster than a speeding bullet, the peregrine is reputed to be nature's most remarkable flying hunter, capable of diving at 200 miles an hour for a midair attack, knocking the prey out with its terrifying talons, then swooping down to catch the falling bird.

The lawyer, Zheng Enchong, who has lived under house arrest for several months, has been seriously injured by plainclothes police officers who, in one attack, knocked him down, then repeatedly hoisted his body parallel to the ground and dropped him on the concrete, people who have visited him said.

A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack knocked offline at least 68 Philippine government websites in July, apparently in response to an international court ruling that denied China's territorial claims in the region.

After a distributed denial-of-service attack knocked some servers offline during a local election in Tennessee this week, Knox County is working with an outside security contractor to investigate the cause.

The Okan facility, which it operates in conjunction with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., is also a gathering point for production from several fields, so the attack knocked off output from all of them at once.

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