Sentence examples for long assault from inspiring English sources

THE weekend here begins midday on Friday when the smartly dressed lunch crowd descends upon Galatoire's restaurant in the French Quarter and, well armed with cocktails, starts its long assault on the afternoon.

The de facto 60-vote supermajority now effectively required in the Senate, the gerrymandering of Congressional districts for Republican advantage, the Supreme Court's rightward lurch, the post-Citizens United deluge of money and the long assault on organized labor would seem to make a new liberal political alignment exceedingly unlikely.

They hold that a golden age of American intelligence was followed by a long assault on the agency by bleeding hearts, that a revitalized C.I.A. won the cold war under Ronald Reagan and that a new generation of spies now stands tall as America's first line of defense.

As a result, the disturbances drawing public ire are not just the jackhammers, car alarms and fire sirens that have long assaulted urban eardrums.

This is, of course, the argument based on his three-and-a-half-decade-long assault on the Iraqi people.

But it has failed to squash the insurgency in the suburbs of Damascus, the capital, despite bombing them relentlessly in a summer-long assault.

In fact, this cynicism being played out overseas is but the latest episode in a decade-long assault on the liberal arts here at home.

GIVEN the very real possibility that the Supreme Court will overturn the Affordable Care Act, liberals are concerned that the right-wing tilt of five justices and lifelong appointments ensure a decades-long assault on the power of Congress.

The last assailant she describes in her story of the hours-long assault was a classmate she recognized, and he hesitated – so one of the other assailants said, "Grab its motherfucking leg".

The medical student, who died last weekend of injuries sustained in the hour-long assault in a moving bus in Delhi, was cremated on Sunday in the Indian capital, close to where she had lived with her family.

If the court ultimately rules against affirmative action, the higher education community will be forced to take a huge step backwards – perhaps absorbing the final blow in American society's decades-long assault on affirmative action.