Sentence examples for first onslaught from inspiring English sources

Road gritting and snow clearance teams are standing by to deal with the first onslaught of wintry weather.

Last year brought the first onslaught of such say-on-pay votes, and this year 1,714 companies have already held them, says the consulting firm Semler Brossy.

Road gritting and snow clearance teams are standing by to deal with the first onslaught of wintry weather as forecasters warn that temperatures are likely to plunge over the weekend.

Sandusky, who said his wife and mother-in-law were avid knitters — his mother-in-law just knitted sweaters for his twins' birthday, for gosh sakes, he said — responded to the first onslaught of criticisms with a letter posted on the U.S.O.C.'s Web site.

So he defended Hunt against the first onslaught of a hostile and mostly anti-Murdoch press, but broke the first law of reputation crisis management, which is to get all the information, good and bad, out in public as quickly as possible.

In different eras there were different motives: a fast buck to be made during Prohibition, carrying customers or shipments of booze to speakeasies; stopgap work during the first onslaught of the Depression; fill-in work (particularly among women) during World War II, when so many men were off at war or employed by military plants.

The Central Powers finally subdued Serbia after their second onslaught, launched in 1915.

As the emissions scandal engulfs Volkswagen, carmakers face a second onslaught from drivers furious about fuel consumption that is often one-third less than claimed.

Next, came a third onslaught of what might have sounded like the posher, officer class; the old Etonians: Hugh Laurie, in House, Dominic West, in The Wire, Damian Lewis, in Homeland, and Tom Hiddleston as Loki in the Marvel comic book films – except, of course, these well-heeled English actors' tough American accents and stateside machismo were faultless when required.

Wobbled, Browne survived a second onslaught, landing a knockdown blow of his own, before Arlovski recovered and sealed the victory.

In 2000, after the second Russian onslaught in Chechnya, first refugees and then rebels trickled across the mountains into Pankisi, where ethnic Chechens first settled in the 1830s.