Sentence examples for request to attack from inspiring English sources

And since most of the major international media has been hostile to Assange from the beginning, they have used the asylum request to attack Ecuador, accusing the government of a "crackdown" on the media at home.

He refused, citing the Aetolians' own refusal to honor Attalus' request to attack Macedonia during Philip's attack on Pergamon two years earlier.

Truman rejected MacArthur's request to attack Chinese supply bases north of the Yalu, but MacArthur nonetheless promoted his plan to Republican House leader Joseph Martin, who leaked it to the press.

The outtakes, scheduled to air Sunday, depict then-national security advisor Samuel R. Sandy Bergererefusingng to approve a CIA request to attack Osama bin Laden, an event that Berger and the Sept. 11 commission say did not occur.

The current Congressional debate over Obama's request to attack Syria for its use of chemical weapons embodies the same generational consequences and disagreements as the debate over the United States joining the League of Nations did almost one hundred years ago.

It was, in fact, Battery D. But when the pilot and his officer looked for indicators that it was a friendly unit, they saw none and requested clearance to attack.

Wright's destroyers detected Tanaka's force on radar and the destroyer commander requested permission to attack with torpedoes.

On three occasions, the commander of the Far East Air Force, Major General Lewis H. Brereton, requested permission to attack Japanese bases in Formosa, in accordance with prewar intentions, but was denied by Sutherland.

Earlier in the morning, she'd caused a bit of a kerfuffle by telling NBC News that, in 2008, shortly after she dropped out of the Presidential race, she refused a request from the Obama campaign to attack Sarah Palin, the Republican candidate for Vice-President — an incident she recounts in "Hard Choices".

Major Schmidt requested and was denied permission to attack the troops.

When Israel requested those codes in 1991 to attack Iraq during the first Gulf war, the United States refused and there was no Israeli strike.