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Discover LudwigThe phrase "attacks rice" is grammatically correct but lacks clarity without context.
It could be used in a context discussing pests or diseases that affect rice crops, or metaphorically in a different context.
Example: "The new pest species attacks rice, causing significant damage to the harvest."
Alternatives: "assaults rice" or "affects rice negatively."
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The brown planthopper (BPH, Nilaparvata lugens) attacks rice plant and sucks fluid from the vascular bundle.
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As well as raising over $6 million for the race, Booker attacked Rice as a "political crony" of James.
In his column last week, he began by explaining that the Republican Party is, in fact, not racist at all, therefore it can't possibly be attacking Rice because she's African American.
Then another commissioner, Richard Ben Veniste, asked whether before the attacks Ms. Rice informed President Bush that Qaeda cells were active in the United States.
Moreover, the gene was induced by BPH feeding and by the fall army worm (Yuan et al. 2008), suggesting that the gene plays a common role in the response to herbivore attacks on rice plants.
Obama was outraged by the McCain/Graham attacks on Rice.
The seedling stage is most susceptible to pathogen and insect attack in rice plant and usually affected by infestation of blast, brown spot and stem borers.
Republicans have been attacking Ms. Rice for saying five days after the killings that they may have grown out of a spontaneous protest over an anti-Islamic video.
9.11pm GMT Obama 'deeply regrets the unfair and misleading attack' on Rice CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller gets the response from President Obama, who says he "deeply regrets the unfair and misleading attack" on Rice, but her decision "demonstrates the strength of her character & an admirable commitment to rise above politics".
Acting CIA Director Michael Morell told lawmakers last week during closed-door briefings on the Benghazi attack that Rice's televised account was based on a preliminary agency assessment that the episode stemmed from a spontaneous demonstration, spontaneous protest, according to Democratic Reps.
They already have done that, and quite successfully; for by mounting what some say is an egregious attack on Rice, McCain and company have outflanked Obama and put him in a box even before there is a real issue on the table.
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