It is an onslaught by a powerful military state, armed and supported by the west, against an impoverished, besieged and displaced people.
Perhaps it should come as no surprise that a game about tanks and artillery comes from a company in the former Soviet Union, which owed its very survival of Nazi Germany's onslaught to the powerful use of armor.
His recent "Live at the Village Vanguard," a seven-CD set, "may be the most powerful among Mr. Marsalis's onslaught of album releases in 1999," said Ben Ratliff in The Times.
The blizzard is a powerful metaphor for the endless onslaught of input we face each day of our connected lives.
It points out triumphantly that it has survived an onslaught from a powerful Israeli military, surprised the Israelis with their sophisticated tunnels and won international support from the international "outrage" at Israel killing allegedly almost two thousand of their civilians.
In Syria the jihadists kept up their onslaught against the most powerful Kurdish militia, the People's Defence Units (YPG), despite American air strikes.
Bottle feeding was "incredibly difficult and extremely bad," Dr. Latham wrote in a 1976 report with Ted Greiner, but "the media onslaught is terrific, the messages are powerful and the profits are high".
Known as Smokin' Joe, Frazier stalked his opponents around the ring with a crouching, relentless attack — his head low and bobbing, his broad, powerful shoulders hunched — as he bore down on them with an onslaught of withering jabs and crushing body blows, setting them up for his devastating left hook.
Much of the onslaught against Ms. Tanaka is being fueled by the powerful old guard of the Liberal Democratic Party of whom the new foreign minister has been a sharp critic.
The pace of suburban development is a powerful issue in many other states after a 10-year onslaught of building, but the political and economic tensions are especially raw here, where more people are scrambling over less open space.
