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FBI deputy director Sean Joyce outlined four of those "domestic nexus" plots, two of which involved sending money overseas, and only one of which represented an attack on US soil past a "nascent" stage.

Because the explosion took place outside the headquarters of one of the security services, some speculated that it represented an attack on a senior commander at the site.

The Charlie Hebdo attacks of last January, when writers and cartoonists for the French satirical publication were slaughtered in Paris, were powerful because they represented an attack on a symbol of European culture - the free press.

In August more than 17,000 people signed a petition urging the NSW government to scrap the program lodged by the Liberal MP Damien Tudehope, who said it represented "an attack on the rights of all parents".

The YWLS' very name represented an attack on Title IX's equal protection principles.

In Majdi's eyes the twin explosions represented an attack on Lebanon's sovereignty.

For many, the Prime Minister's Israel Prize intervention represents an attack on the country's cultural and intellectual bastions.

Prime Minister Ivica Racan told reporters that the demands voiced at the rally "represent an attack on the government".

For working people, this budget represents an attack on the social wage – the public services and social safety net that are so important to our way of life.

To others, the furor over its $535 million federal loan guarantee represents an attack on the solar industry and the Obama administration's clean energy policies.

The case under review, Shelby County, Alabama v. Holder, represents an attack on what has become the most important part of the law, known as Section Five.