Sentence examples for came under violent attack from inspiring English sources
After Israeli forces shot dead five Egyptian security personnel on Egyptian soil after last August's cross-border attack, anti-Israel sentiment rose markedly and the Israeli embassy in Cairo came under violent attack.
Egypt's beleaguered Coptic minority, which makes up about one-tenth of the country's roughly 90 million people, has been discriminated against for decades, and has come under violent attack since the uprising that toppled Mr. Mubarak.
These rights are hard won and must be defended, especially when they come under violent attack.
Pakistan has a dismal record when it comes to protecting religious and ethnic minorities, who have often come under violent attacks by armed extremist groups.
The military authorities look little different than the Mubarak apparatchiks they replaced, Islamists captured the vast majority of parliamentary seats in recent elections, Coptic Christians have come under increasingly violent attack, and Israel is less secure.
World Trade Organization negotiations had come under violent protest in Seattle in 1999.
Her childhood was also marked by Uganda's brutal civil wars, and in the late 1980s her family had to flee their village after it came under attack from the violent rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army and ended up living in a camp.
Challenged on his evidence, Harwood accepted that it was untrue when he had earlier claimedhe had received a blow to the head, fell over, lost his baton and came under attack from a violent crowd in the minutes preceding his encounter with Tomlinson.
Minutes later, it came under mortar attack.
