Sentence examples for forefront of the attack from inspiring English sources

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.

This did not placate the Guardian newspaper, which broke the phone-hacking story and has been at the forefront of the attack on Murdoch.

In Thomas Maguire's case the witnesses who had identified the prisoners and had testified that Maguire was in the forefront of the attack had their evidence shown to be transparently false.

He had been to the forefront of the attack and, at one point, called out to Lord Stirling, "Come here, you damned rebel, and I will do for you!" Stirling's response was to instruct four marksmen to concentrate their fire upon the captain.

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.

Russia and China have been at the forefront of those attacking the U.S. in recent years, with the former focused on disrupting elections while the latter has been targeting cyber espionage and the theft of valuable intellectual property.

"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.

And who of an age to remember the Vietnam War can forget the years of media and political agonizing over "the longest-held Vietnam POW," John McCain, now Senator McCain, in the forefront of the wolfpack attacking Sgt. Bergdahl's patriotism and alleged desertion?

In France, whose conservative president, Jacques Chirac, was in the forefront of the overwhelmingly leftist attacks on Mr. Haider, Jean-Marie Le Pen's openly racist National Front won 15percentt of the vote in 1995.