Sentence examples for human assault from inspiring English sources

Survival in the face of human assault, natural disaster, or deprivation has been a conscious concern of indigenous peoples.

Iran repeatedly launched fruitless infantry attacks, using human assault waves composed partly of untrained and unarmed conscripts (often young boys snatched from the streets), which were repelled by the superior firepower and air power of the Iraqis.

The human assault on the planet usually does not make headlines unless there is a sudden calamity -- giant fires in Indonesia or radioactivity escaping from a nuclear plant in Chernobyl.

"To the Ends of the Earth" traces a mournful journey, from the earliest encounters with a strange and wondrous new world to more contemporary views where once-terrifying vistas have been reduced to fragile ecosystems just barely hanging on after centuries of human assault.

Law enforcement officials have found that the temporary camps can lead to upticks in human trafficking, assault, rape and drug crimes.

In "human wave" assaults, they sent thousands of young men directly into the Iraqi lines, often to clear minefields, and soldiers died at a precipitous rate.

It also became apparent that young boys, often plucked from the streets, were leading human wave assaults on the front lines, thereby sacrificing their bodies to clear minefields for the troops that followed.

There are estimates that more than a million people died in the war, in which a cease-fire was declared in 1988, with heavy casualties, air and missile attacks, human-wave assaults by Iran and the use of poison gas by Iraq.

Some object on religious grounds, arguing that the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos is an assault on human dignity and the sanctity of human life.

Climate breakdown, refugees, human rights, sexual assault: none of these issues, it seems, can surface until they go Hollywood.

There are countless parents who will not allow their children to play violent video games, in which players are able to kill, maim, dismember or sexually assault human images in depraved ways.