Sentence examples for intolerable assault from inspiring English sources

What might count locally as an intolerable assault on the Baltic states' sovereignty may not be seen in Brussels as an "armed attack" for Article 5 purposes.

For the Jews in Palestine, Zionism was a movement of national liberation after untold suffering; for the Arabs, Zionism was an intolerable assault by the colonial West against sacred ground and Islam itself.

As Sheri and Allan Rivlin point out in their latest analysis, there's a continuing danger that the effort will be derailed by Democrats on the left who demand a clear victory over the Republicans by enacting a public plan and Republicans on the right who return the favor when say that trying to limit care to what is needed rather than wanted is an intolerable assault on American freedom.

Serious threats to Internet freedom come not just from intolerable direct assaults like the Internet shutdown in Egypt and Syria, but also from overzealous efforts to address Internet content.

Anti-rape activists, she contends, have manipulated statistics to frighten college women with a nonexistent "epidemic" of rape, date rape, and sexual harassment, and have encouraged them to view "everyday experience"—sexist jokes, professorial leers, men's straying hands and other body parts—as intolerable insults and assaults.

The conditions – typically weeks of more than 120 hours, continuously on the move, charged for squalid tied housing, with allegations of pay withheld, threats of violence and actual assault – were intolerable.

Sexual assault is intolerable, and we owe it to one another to confront it openly, purposefully, and effectively.

Intolerance is intolerable.

They even, albeit tentatively, challenged the sacrosanct heart of Iran's Islamist edifice, the ultimate authority of the "supreme leader".So bold an assault on their bastions of power was intolerable to the clerics, not excluding Mr Khatami, who is scrupulous about operating within the system.

Sexual assault is a serious and insidious problem that occurs with intolerable frequency on college campuses and elsewhere.

It cuts by tolerating an intolerable level of violence – in 2013 there were almost 11,000 attacks by prisoners on other prisoners and 2,731 assaults on staff.