Sentence examples for country under attack from inspiring English sources
The Arab-Americans in the crossfire are caught between being citizens of a country under attack and being culturally or religiously tied to the attackers.
The move will widen Japan's military options by allowing its troops to assist a friendly country under attack.
The word suggests that Russia is at war with the world, and that is exactly how it sees itself: a country under attack, surrounded by hostile forces.
Hollande invoked a clause of a European Union treaty which calls for other member states to come to the aid of a country under attack, and proposed changes to France's constitution to facilitate the prosecution of terrorists.
It is illogical to expect a country under attack to give up its strategic and negotiating positions first -- before a peace agreement -- when the other side continues to reject every deal.
In May 1935 a Franco-Soviet treaty of mutual assistance was signed, and a Soviet-Czechoslovak treaty followed a few weeks later, though this treaty was only to take effect if France also came to the aid of the country under attack.
"Countries under attack are the ones that get to decide whether they are at war or not," added Zelikow.
This article was corrected on 2 May to attribute to Philip Zelikow, not John Bellinger, the assertion that "countries under attack get to decide whether they are at war".
That notion was attacked widely by people like PST, who said, "We are talking about going on VACATION here -- not support for countries under attack just because the people of that particular country are nice.
Fans, singers, even executives routinely grumble about how "real country" is under attack, both from within (timid country-radio stations) and without (mainstream-minded marketers).
"The left controls not only the universities in this country, but they also control Hollywood in this country, and the mainstream media, so conservatives in this country are under attack... they attack people who are trying to get to the truth," the head of the House Intelligence Committee added.
