Sentence examples for direct assaults from inspiring English sources

But there is a wider issue than direct assaults.

The Italians managed to hold the Piave front against direct assaults and against attempts to turn its left flank by an advance from the Trentino.

By eschewing direct assaults and utilizing protracted artillery attacks on enemy strongholds, Kagame's forces were able to minimize casualties and retake the capital, Kigali, in early July.

Though he refrained from direct assaults on Gov. George W. Bush, he clearly delighted in the increasingly vocal and harsh reaction in his crowds to his Republican rival.

Coalition forces ringed the cities of Basra and Nasiriya, refraining from direct assaults while the bulk of allied troops flowed northward toward the "Red Zone," the intensely defended area around the Iraqi capital.

That is why so many residents seem on the one hand to refuse a knowledge of evil, and on the other to vigorously combat direct assaults on its way of life.

Meanwhile Magna Carta is under more direct assault.

A direct assault, if you want, on mediocrity".

This, however, is a direct assault on staff.

"Banning religion is a direct assault on our founding principles," Mr. Stockman said in a statement.

It's about painting as "a direct assault on the nervous system," as Bacon once wrote.