Spain experienced the main pandemic onslaught during August-December 1918, with respiratory mortality peaking on average in October 1918 and mean excess death rates estimated at 82.3 per 10,000 and 101.0 per 10,000 for respiratory and all-cause mortality, respectively (Table 2 and Figure 3).
Political suicideIsrael's main retaliation against an onslaught of suicide bombs was political: it closed Orient House, the Palestinians' de facto headquarters in East Jerusalem.
But if you're only having lunch, or want to spare your appetite for the onslaught of main courses, you might have nothing more than a $1.95 cup of some of the best black bean soup in New Jersey -- simple, powerful and elemental, with bits of ham and raw onion.
Before the onslaught of the main courses, two seafood starters are worth mentioning.
Goaltender Mike Richter has been the main victim of a weeklong onslaught.
But for every revelatory glimpse up the nostrils of Father Barry there's a bafflingly circuitous DVD menu system, seemingly designed by MC Escher on LSD and intent on dropping you back repeatedly into the onslaught of the main menu screen's excruciatingly loud jingle.
Consequently, it perceived Islam as the main victim of this relentless onslaught, whereby its principles, regulations, and strict code of Shari'a law were no longer observed or adhered to, even in Muslim societies.
Mr Hague made this the main of thrust of a flaming final onslaught on Mr Blair in the last prime minister's questions before the dissolution of Parliament.
The American government has sounded two main themes in its response to the terrorist onslaught: The United States is going to war against terrorism, and we expect all other countries to support us in the struggle.
As minister of culture after 1992 under president Rafsanjani, Larijani said his main task was to resist a western cultural onslaught through "holy Islamic learning", an approach he continued as head of state broadcasting from 1994 to 2004.
