Sentence examples for offensive assault from inspiring English sources

"We see this as an offensive assault on our right to express our thoughts and feelings," Mr. Feiler said.

Showing the trailer to movie audiences without any warning is an emotionally offensive assault on those who lived through 9/11.

To beat the improved Pacquiao, Garcia and Goossen said, would require a superb defensive performance, movement to match his movement, an offensive assault to force him backward and, simply, luck.

Israel framed this as a "defensive operation," but in reality it was an offensive assault on the Palestinians in Gaza.

Republican leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives waged an offensive assault on public health and the environment, passing 125 anti-environmental bills since January 2011.

There are relatively few reports of casualties during foot patrols, raids or any offensive assaults.

While rifles were shot at those extreme ranges, they could not equal the destructive power of artillery and machine guns, and they were too cumbersome and powerful for offensive assaults on enemy trenches.

Not much, or so it would seem, if one were to go by the language of sports-writing: crushing defeats, campaigns, humiliations, pitched battles, offensives, assaults, and so on.

We plan offensives, assaults and attacks.

Police have confirmed the arrests were made for offences including possession of an offensive weapon, assault on police, affray and common assault.

The Assad government, emboldened by its conquest of the contested city of Qusayr, near the border with Lebanon, has stepped up its offensive with an assault on Aleppo.