Sentence examples for of foreign attack from inspiring English sources

To some extent, fear of foreign attack diminished with the advent of independence in Portuguese Africa in 1975 and in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) in 1980.

This would explain why Locke, in the Letter, describes government promotion of "arms, riches, and multitude of citizens" as the proper remedy for the danger of foreign attack (Works 6: 42) John Locke defined political power as "a Right of making Laws with Penalties of Death, and consequently all less Penalties" (Two Treatises 2.3).

It then faced further criticism after the census website crashed, which it attributed to a series of foreign attacks.

The Chinese government denies its culpability for cyber attacks against the US and instead says it is the target of foreign attacks, potentially including the US.

In the broader context of foreign attacks on US government networks, it would be far more shocking if nobody at the DOD had ever screwed up and downloaded a tainted attachment.

The Plot Against America by Philip Roth 391pp, Cape, £16.99 When the hubristic, newly elected US president boasts of America's invulnerability to foreign attack, the sense of imminent calamity is overwhelming.

With North Korea closed to American journalists, it is hard to decipher whether Mr. Kim is shoring up his power base in the army out of fear of a foreign attack or of an internal coup.

In Congress, the Republican Party is under the stewardship of the same leader who, when told of a foreign attack on the very mechanism of American democracy, threatened to make it a partisan issue if the president attempted to inform the American people of the threat.

Certainly, in the event of a foreign attack on American soil or a domestic rebellion, the President can deploy military units to respond.

The government has misrepresented Iran and made the country isolated, poor and put it at the risk of a foreign attack.

A law enacted in 1778 required the treasury to be moved to a safe location in the case of a foreign attack, but Sobremonte was still seen as a coward by the population.