Sentence examples for barbarian attack from inspiring English sources
A cruel and barbarian attack has been carried out.
A cruel and barbarian attack was carried out.
In the 270s the walls built by Aurelian were more a symbol of the danger of barbarian attack than a restoration of Rome's grandeur.
Violence against them could be precipitated by a bad harvest, a barbarian attack, or a public festival of the emperor cult.
"Fittingly," the future president wrote, the "mother country of all English-speaking democracies" had undertaken to build the chapel at St. Paul's, itself "a target of barbarian attack" by German bombers during the blitz.
The first step will be to apparently humanize Kratos, who will begin as a mortal and still have his family, with the pivotal change being the barbarian attack.
The news of this challenge undid Marcus' achievements along the Danube because it took him to the East and reopened the door to barbarian attacks.
New barbarian attacks threw the empire onto the defensive, and in 410 ce the city of Rome itself was captured and sacked by the Visigoths.
In 771 bce, however, they were forced to move their capital eastward to present-day Luoyang to avoid barbarian attacks from Central Asia.
It was later subject to many barbarian attacks, became an independent commune at the beginning of the 12th century, and withstood an eight-month siege by Frederick II in 1240 41.
The main character in Canadian director Denys Arcand's The Barbarian Invasion believes that in the wake of September 11 the "American empire will have to push back a stream of barbarian attacks".
