Sentence examples for make an attack on from inspiring English sources

He used his hope that the jury were xenophobes to make an attack on the freedom of the press.

The dollar was flat against the euro after some traders speculated a message from Osama bin Laden would make an attack on Iraq more likely.

He passed on, however, to make an attack on the credibility of the witness U. G. Fowler that was embarrassing in its fatuity and seeming insincerity.

"For him to make an attack on me," Cook said of Accorsi, "is certainly uncalled for in light of the fact they waited until the 12th hour".

To take one of many examples: in the sixth century, a Christian thinker called Philoponus used an Aristotelian style of argument to make an attack on Aristotle's ideas about matter and time.

Residents object to the plan largely because they fear that the center's proximity to terrorist targets, like the bridge and courthouses, would make an attack on the area more likely and because the building may encroach on parkland.

She is making an attack on corruption one of the chief themes of her office.

But having made an attack on global warming a central feature of his first term, it is one he may be willing to risk.

That's to say they made an attack on the communist state itself to revolutionise communism.

And that inattention, I believe, made an attack on the American compound in Benghazi all the more likely.

The year after Marathon, Miltiades made an attack on the Aegean island of Paros, which anticipates the more systematic imperialism of the period after 479.