Sentence examples for firmly attacked from inspiring English sources

He said that "adding melamine to feed is a criminal act and must be firmly attacked".

In 1797 the British general Sir Ralph Abercromby led a naval force that captured Trinidad, which had been a somewhat neglected Spanish possession off the Venezuelan coast; however, Abercromby was firmly repulsed when he attacked Puerto Rico afterward.

The wholly subjective nature of these judgments, however, places the burden firmly on the attacking state to justify its actions to the international community.

Instead, we went after those who had attacked us, carefully but firmly.

By 55 BCE, when Cicero attacked Piso, Philodemus could be firmly associated with him.

Ivanovic was the one player who attacked the cross, rising between two defenders, his eyes firmly on the ball.

He attacked the trampoline enthusiastically, threw in a half-hearted star jump, and landed firmly - possibly causing a few waves in the infinity pool nearby.

When attacked, most land slugs will simply retract the head and contract the body, but stay firmly attached to the substrate.

Then terrorists attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, and Romania's leaders made certain they were firmly on the Americans' side.

But the suicide bombers who killed 35 people in Rawalpindi and maimed at least seven in Lahore yesterday showed that the cost to Pakistan of attacking an insurgency firmly rooted in its Pashtun community will be high.

Mr. Ackman remains firmly committed to taking down Herbalife, attacking it as a pyramid scheme ripe for a legal assault by federal regulators.