His courtiers, feeling that the great secular push in Iran made it safe to attack what they saw as Khomeini's outdated obscurantism, published an attack on the exile, full of personal insults.
The practice of vote-buying was "so ancient and so common" a "custom of the country," he wrote, that "it is an institution, and, like the church or property, it is not safe to attack it".
IN THE dark the safest way to attack the lions was to catch them in the headlights of a car and run them over.
Croesus, King of Lydia, having tested the Pythia - the female keeper of the shrine at Delphi and mouthpiece of the god Apollo - and found her seemingly trustworthy, asked if it would be safe for him to attack the Persians.
Mr. Herbert (and the sources he quotes) are correct: our national interest is to prevent Afghanistan from again becoming a safe shelter from which to attack the United States or our friends and allies.
His article, published in the Spectator, was full of scorn for "dull hipsters," stretching as far as to attack safe spaces and inclusivity in nightclubs, as well as arguing that raves are more fun when they are more dangerous.
I don't understand how we ended up invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, while Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida are setting up base camps and safe havens to train terrorists to attack us".
This was no real expression of view on how best to keep London safe, but merely an opportunity to attack the government by proxy - and there lies the problem.
In a move to keep her image safe, she often uses him to attack enemies instead of doing so herself.
