Sentence examples for opening assault from inspiring English sources

Following a fierce opening assault from the rear that almost overwhelmed Curtis's forces, the outnumbered Union troops rallied.

Here, two sides – rebel and imperial – face off in a recreation of the Empire Strikes Back's opening assault.

Flood's letter to the commissioner, Bowie Kuhn, in 1969 was the opening assault on baseball's chokehold on the players.

I first met the Dutchman in 2007, before his opening assault on UK comedy as part of the Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective.

Caleb lobs his opening assault while driving Peter from college to home, where their father, Donald (J. K. Simmons), is waiting to celebrate Thanksgiving with scowls, secrets and a portentously loaded weapon.

The tactics would expand on those used in the 1989 invasion of Panama, when troops flew in, dropped onto and attacked more than two dozen separate targets almost simultaneously in the opening assault.

Opening the assault on Brown, the SNP MP Mike Weir said: "We are witnessing the pathetic sight of a cabinet reshuffling itself.

So this is an example of a successful siege, but not a flat-out open assault.

What we are witnessing now is exactly that — an open assault on workers.

This US move amounts to an open assault on multilateralism – something that, as history has taught us, Europeans have an existential interest in protecting and upholding.

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.