Sentence examples for point of assault from inspiring English sources

But I think they make it harder to deny that this law-breaking crank should be no one's poster boy; nor should the self-styled militiamen who journeyed from across the country to defend, at the point of assault rifles, Mr Bundy's right to trespass be hailed as heroes.

Intense to the point of assault — in a velvet-gloved sort of way — they rivet the attention and open the mind and eye to everything that Klein did subsequently, in part by establishing the sense of purity and concentration underlying all his best work.

All of the distinctions and conventions that we once took for granted are now under frequent and aggressive questioning, one might say to the point of assault.

The point of the assault on Gaza, rather, is "to reduce the cost of a prisoner exchange" and to force Hamas to call a ceasefire in return for some calm.

Burton Bridge was again a focal point of the assault with five Royalists losing their lives there, with Gell claiming that he lost no men in the attack.

Furthermore, what's the point of banning assault weapons, when Daniel was killed with an ordinary rifle, or perhaps a sawed-off shotgun?

"From the point of view of assault, we would look at [named individuals].

On Sunday, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on "Meet the Press" on NBC that regime change was not the point of the military assault.

The land includes the Willis Church Parsonage, which served as the starting point of the Confederate assaults on the day of the battle and the ruins of which remain visible today.

There was the Georgia Tech chapter of Phi Kappa Tau, which in 2013 sent around an email instructing brothers in the finer points of sexually assaulting drunk women.

"We're looking at four major points: a stricter definition of assault weapons and the ban, stricter limitations on gun magazines sizes, tougher penalties for illegal gun possession and — this is a piece I initiated — better screening for mental health problems on the front and back end.