Sentence examples for constitute an assault on from inspiring English sources
The party says the amendments do not constitute an assault on governmental secularism in Turkey, which has a Muslim majority.
Waldron's point is that such signs would constitute an assault on the dignity and the status of Muslims in America.
And the sheer number of markets and shops and stands and noodle houses and dumpling stalls can constitute an assault on the senses.
They constitute an assault on the land, water and air; they are unjust to independent farmers and rural communities and are staggeringly cruel to animals.
So faithful is the production to the spirit and letter of Waugh's 1945 original that it seems as if its creators feared that any variance or economy might constitute an assault on the entire enterprise of literature itself.
They constitute an assault on privacy and decent reticence of a kind that in recent years has been compelling people in this country to make public declarations of feeling (bursting into tears on TV, uttering public confessions of emotion, festooning places of grief with flowers and dolls) in order to prove they are not unfeeling.
In both cases, the usual brigade of talking heads bobbed across my television screen screaming that these cases constituted an assault on marriage.
The Grimm campaign had said earlier that the vandal also broke into an office computer and erased "confidential campaign files and polling data" in a "politically motivated crime" that constituted an "assault on democracy".
Greenpeace also opposes the review proposal, arguing that this constitutes an assault on the ability of democratically-elected governments to protect their environments and peoples from potential risks, where the science is contested.
On the other hand, Schmitt claims that the attempt to subject the use of force on the part of political communities to external legal constraint and control, apart from constituting an assault on the possibility of political existence, will only lead to greater disorder and violence than we can expect to experience in a system that recognizes the political.
