Sentence examples for decision to assault from inspiring English sources

And the sight of Fallujah's streets, smashed by American artillery and littered with corpses, was hardly an advertisement in the campaign for Iraqi hearts and minds.But the road to an election was bound to be fraught, and the decision to assault Fallujah in the hope of destroying the nerve-centre of the most extreme of the insurgents was taken in the full awareness of heightened political risk.

"Your decision to assault was precise, calculated, manipulative, devious, despicable.

Here, the offensive bogged down, partly because MacArthur had based his decision to assault Finschhafen on Willoughby's assessment that there were only 350 Japanese defenders at Finschhafen, when in fact there were nearly 5,000.

But Turner will, in fact, face lifelong (and in my opinion, if not his father's, well-deserved) repercussions for his decision to assault a helpless victim (you can read her powerful statement, if you haven't already, here).

Abadi's initial decision to assault Fallujah appears to have gone against the plans of his U.S. allies, who would prefer the government concentrate on Mosul, rather than risk getting bogged down in a potentially drawn out fight for a smaller, potentially hostile Sunni Muslim stronghold like Fallujah.

The director of public prosecutions has defended the decision to bring sex assault and rape charges against Tory MP Nigel Evans by saying it would do the same again, despite a warning from its former director Lord Macdonald that it must not "lose perspective" over high-profile cases involving historic allegations.

She angered Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the majority leader, this year when she publicly criticized his decision to drop her assault weapons ban from a package of gun control bills.

Israel's decision to halt the assault came after an agreement with the US for American intelligence and equipment to help prevent Hamas smuggling weapons into Gaza through tunnels.

He told reporters today, touring the site of the suicide bombing Tuesday night near Tel Aviv, that Israel's decision to defer an assault should not be misinterpreted as a surrender to terrorism.

He had disagreed with Allawi's decision to order the assault on Falluja in November, but when I asked him what he thought of Allawi he said, "He's a good man," as if he assumed that this was what I wanted to hear.

Beauregard caused considerable historical controversy with his decision to halt the assault at dusk.