What we are witnessing now is exactly that — an open assault on workers.
News of the case was played down in the media.China's leaders, it appears, worry that a more open assault on Mr Bo would draw public attention to high-level corruption while also antagonising his sympathisers.
News.com's also points out the obvious fact that the Zune player-and-Marketplace combo is an open assault on the iPod and iTMS.
Grace, a long-range sniper, is a blend of deadliness and discretion, while Nick, a pilot, can rain down destruction with bombs from his biplane, in a decidedly open assault on your mutual enemies.
Brazil is the biggest economy in Latin America and a major trading partner of the U.S. Brazil's ailing real came under open assault after the country's central bank president resigned, forcing his successor to lower the currency's trading band.
Following a fierce opening assault from the rear that almost overwhelmed Curtis's forces, the outnumbered Union troops rallied.
A hole in Minnesota's laws leaves parents who hit their children open to assault charges, said Victor Vieth, a former prosecutor who now directs the National Child Protection Training Center, which trains investigators on child abuse cases.
The department's Office for Civil Rights has 360 open sexual assault investigations, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
We must work for a world where black men and boys aren't killed for holding toy guns while white men are allowed to open carry assault rifles in their local grocery story.
Irurita [ 19] makes the connection between vulnerability and risk when she describes vulnerability as "being susceptible to physical and or emotional hurt, harm or injury, [or being] defenceless or weak in relation to self protection, open to assault" (p. 11).
