Sentence examples for forefront of attacks from inspiring English sources

Corporate wrongdoers and their insurers have been at the forefront of attacks on civil juries in recent years as these industries seek to limit corporate liability exposure, including punitive damages awards.

It followed that, when the bitter "Historians' Dispute" (Historikerstreit) exploded in 1986 around the question of the uniqueness of the Holocaust, Mommsen found himself at the forefront of attacks on conservative historians who in his view were dangerously relativising German responsibility for the murder of the Jews by suggesting that Stalin's crimes were worse.

While China and Russia have been at the forefront of attacks, other nations including North Korea have been muddying the waters, making it harder to know who is conducting the attacks.

Brazil has been on the forefront of attacking AIDS in the developing world since 1998, when it began copying and producing some of the antiretroviral drugs used in "cocktails" to treat AIDS.

Tehranis pushed the police back, burned their vehicles, and even took some demoralized Basij members who were in forefront of attack on the demonstrators as temporary hostages.

ALEC has been at the forefront of attacking state minimum wage laws, blocking cities from implementing living wage laws, and leading efforts to privatize government services in order to turn them over to non-union for-profit contractors.

"He's been at the forefront of these attacks on Planned Parenthood and on access to basic reproductive healthcare for years and years," said Erica Sackin, director of political communications for Planned Parenthood.

Tony Abbott and senior members of his front bench were at the forefront of the attacks, including speaking at rallies in front of banners describing Gillard as a "witch" and a "bitch", and at which the carbon price "broken promise" was used as a stalking horse.

A number of the key "think tanks" at the forefront of the attacks on climate science -- including the Heartland Institute, Competitive Enterprise Institute, American Enterprise Institute, George C. Marshall Institute, Heritage Foundation and Cato Institute –- are also examined for their climate denial work on behalf of oil and coal interests.

The Austrian Ludwig Boltzmann and the German Max Planck, for example, both top-ranking theoretical physicists, were in the forefront of the attack against Mach and Ostwald.

The third group may have been pushing back at the government's drive to rein in the militia, or perhaps just defending the Islamist militias that have come under increased pressure recently after a hard-line brigade was seen at the forefront of the attack on the United States Mission in Benghazi.