Sentence examples for dramatic assault from inspiring English sources

War is the negation of all rights and a dramatic assault on the environment.

McGwire disgraced the Cardinals -- and baseball -- by perpetuating one of the great frauds in recent baseball history: his dramatic assault on the single-season home run record then held by Roger Maris.

Flying from anywhere in the world into Las Vegas is a culture shock, but to then quit it for the scrub and sagebrush of the Mojave desert is an equally dramatic assault on the senses.

The Age of Stupid climate change film has been well received ("the most imaginative and dramatic assault on the institutional complacency shrouding the issue" – The Times; "You'd be stupid to miss it" – News of the World).

"We are seeing a dramatic assault on voting rights, the most significant pushback on democratic participation that we've seen in decades," said Wendy Weiser of the non-partisan thinktank the Brennan Center for Justice, and the co-author of the definitive study of US voter suppression in the 2012 election cycle.

She survived the dramatic assault, in which a militant boarded her school bus in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley and opened fire, wounding two of her school friends as well.

I recognize that issues such as war have a direct impact on human health (in fact this is one of the most dramatic assaults to health) but the experience of health (an individual phenomenon) is distinguishable from the conditions that influence health (social, economic and political phenomenon).

They rejected his request to leave once before eventually agreeing before the dramatic police assault on the building during which the brothers died.

The exception is Somalia, where al-Shabab, an Islamist militia that formally joined al-Qaida in 2012, launched a handful of terrorist attacks in the capital, Mogadishu, and a dramatic, deadly assault on Kenya's Westgate mall in September that killed 70 people.

On the third day of battle, fighting resumed on Culp's Hill, and cavalry battles raged to the east and south, but the main event was a dramatic infantry assault by 12,500 Confederates against the center of the Union line on Cemetery Ridge, known as Pickett's Charge.

Through the thrust and parry of the salesmen's sensational flimflam — the broken sentences, the asides, the interjections — speech becomes a dramatic gesture: an assault, an insinuation, a decoy, a defense, a trap.