Sentence examples for outright assault from inspiring English sources

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While few travelers would advocate outright assault, a survey of 2,000 travelers released by Skyscanner, a fare-comparison site, in August found that 59 percent of passengers support creating special sections on flights for families.

Herman Cain's campaign began an outright assault on the credibility of his latest accuser on Tuesday, saying in an e-mail to supporters that Sharon Bialek had a "long and troubled" financial history that should undermine her allegations against him.

A lawsuit on behalf of more than 350 former students and their parents in a Utah state district court claims that World Wide's programs provide little education or mental health help, and that staff members engage in outright assault.

Those differences help explain why the American military appears to be taking a softer line in Najaf than in Falluja, where the threat of an outright assault is never more than a day or two away.

But in France, the church could be dismantled only by an outright assault; far from being experienced as a natural and essentially normative arrangement, the separation of religion and politics could be experienced as traumatic and terrifying.

But Double Bind never quite compares to the transgressive jolt of Pretend You're Actually Alive, its outright assault on propriety as well as its inherent bigger question: does the semblance of art make it acceptable to photograph your mother having sex?

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There are reports of agitated bullying and outright assaults on blacks, women, Latinos, and 'other' religious groups at high schools, and college campuses right now.

Like the best musicians in this realm, she understands that rests for breath can be just as unsettling as the outright assaults, and choreographs those moments in a dangerous sort of ballet: pause, pounce, repeat.

Voters have forgiven politicians for worse – though they haven't forgiven many politicians for outright sexual assault, which, let's remember, is the infinitely more troublesome charge Cain faces.

Republican Roy Moore is still a contender for a US Senate in Alabama despite a total of eight women accusing him of behavior that ranges from romantically pursuing them when they were teenagers to outright sexual assault.

Another part of it, as many have pointed out, is that it was finally impossible to deny the sexual assaults Trump has committed -- as well as, plausibly, outright rape in several cases -- by denying or ignoring what women actually say.

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