Sentence examples for barrage of suits from inspiring English sources

The carriers face a barrage of suits.

There has been a barrage of suits against most, if not all, of the 17 defendants named by the U.S. government, including one filed by AIG, the insurer of many of the mortgages originated and/or packaged by the banks.

The companies are now likely to face a barrage of compensation suits from angry customers claiming, quite rightly, that they were overcharged for everything from anti-depressants to contraceptives.Apologists may try to paint this as a one-off case, but that seems unlikely.

In a barrage of bad suits, sparkly Union Jack heels and identical Tory-boy haircuts, the Conservatives stormed back into the frontline of Scottish politics last week, as the results of Thursday's local elections became clear.

The rest is history: Napster was forced to shut down under a barrage of copyright-infringement suits before it had developed a profit proposition to benefit from its huge user base.

The barrage of shots never stopped.

Consider the vacuous suit in your office who deflects your complaints with a barrage of opaque jargon.

"Jonathan Trott saw Warwickshire calmly to the close and the match situation would seem ideally suited to his skills, but he can be sure of another barrage of short-pitched bowling in the morning".

Skeptics considered such estimates preposterous in view of the fact that few suits involving influenza vaccine have been filed in recent years and no comparable barrage of litigation occurred during the polio immunization drive.

Mr Pistorius wore a grey suit and appeared composed as he arrived at court to meet a barrage of photographers and journalists.

Today's demonstrations came a day after thousands of activists around the United States launched a barrage of anti-war protests, chaining themselves together, blocking traffic, walking out of classes and parading in mock chemical suits.