Sentence examples for escalating assault from inspiring English sources
With free media a critical component of representative government, the S.C.A.F.'s escalating assault on the free press is an ominous harbinger.
Even today as the population shrinks, politicians spend enthusiastically on building dams, paving hillsides and fortifying shorelines — what Alex Kerr, the author of the book "Dogs and Demons," calls "Japan's rampant and escalating assault on its rivers, mountains and coasts".
But the current, escalating assault on secrecy began in 2010, when Congress passed legislation that requires foreign financial institutions to inform the Internal Revenue Service of all accounts held by American taxpayers and by foreign entities in which Americans have a substantial ownership interest.
The escalating assault on contraception is really a war on women and their reproductive health and rights.
The Locked Shields exercise in Tallinn is designed to anticipate what the next onslaught might look like: a complex scenario in which an imaginary country, Berylia, which looks very like Estonia, comes under a surprise attack by both strategically placed explosives and an escalating cyber assault focused on its most sensitive industry, a drone manufacturer.
They coalesced around the public whipping of Walt Disney Chief Michael Eisner in March and now are escalating their assault.
For over a year now, the Obama Administration has been steadily escalating its assault on medical marijuana.
Robyn Gardner's distraught boyfriend has gotten into an escalating verbal assault on Gary Giordano, the prime suspect in the missing woman's disappearance in Aruba last summer.
BEIRUT, Lebanon Syriaia's political opposition accused President Bashar al-Assad of escalating military assaults on four major urban centers on Tuesday.
And yet what starts with words, then gestures, can escalate to assault.
WASHINGTON — President Felipe Calderón of Mexico escalated his assault Thursday on the Arizona law that allows law enforcement officials to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally, calling it a "terrible idea".
