Sentence examples for disastrous assault from inspiring English sources

"Well, you know," Rockefeller told Nixon after the scope of the disastrous assault became clear, "this is one of those things".

The 30-year anniversary of the bombing of Osage Avenue will be commemorated without Ward, who was one of only two survivors of the disastrous assault.

After a disastrous assault on a German position, Vasily meets a Red Army political officer named Danilov (Joseph Fiennes) in a corpse-littered fountain and proceeds to pick off five Germans with five shots, from an impressive distance.

Janet Reno, whose unusually long tenure as the United States' first female attorney general began with a disastrous assault on cultists in Texas and ended after the dramatic raid that returned Elian Gonzalez to his Cuban father, has died after a years-long struggle with the debilitation of Parkinson's disease.

The general had led the disastrous assaults on entrenched Confederate troops at Fredericksburg, Va., in December.

Talking calmly, Sumner insisted that such a charge could only mean a repetition of his disastrous assaults on "Burnside's Bridge" at Antietam, where a small band of Confederates held his forces off for hours, and which he finally took at a high cost.

The Russian military still insists that it does not plan to "storm" Grozny, a word that recalls the disastrous Russian assault on the city at the start of the first Chechen war in December 1994 when Russian armored troops raced to the center of the city only to be ambushed and wiped out.

After a disastrous allied assault at Gallipoli, Churchill was dismissed, declaring privately, "I am finished".

His most controversial service was at the Battle of Gettysburg, where he openly disagreed with General Lee on the tactics to be employed and reluctantly supervised the disastrous infantry assault known as Pickett's Charge.

Possibly they may have been referring to Churchill's tenure as First Lord of the Admiralty and the disastrous Gallipoli assault he initiated in 1915 or his five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer after World War I and the monumental economic blunder he made returning the pound sterling to the gold standard.

The appellate court decision came on a somber day for the federal authorities, the seventh anniversary of the disastrous tear gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Tex., when Ms. Reno approved an F.B.I. operation that led to a fire in which about 80 members of the Davidian cult were killed, among them many children.