Sentence examples for spate of assaults from inspiring English sources

The police announced on Wednesday the arrest of eight men who are thought to have attacked a Christian church with a firebomb -- the first suspects in a spate of assaults on churches that raised religious tensions in this Muslim-majority nation.

The spate of assaults on Muslims and demonstrations against them by Sinhalese Buddhist hardliners have been well reported.

Of the recent spate of sexual assaults, this seems one of the less harmful.

By Margaret Talbot April 24 , 2015Jon Krakauer's new book explores a recent spate of sexual assaults in Missoula, Montana.

The group handed out abortion rights leaflets to counter an anti-abortion demonstration on campus and organized an anti-rape rally after a spate of sexual assaults.

A group of Pakistanis and a Syrian man have been attacked by gangs in Cologne, after foreigners were blamed for a spate of sexual assaults in the German city on New Year's Eve.

The Shabab, a Somali Islamist militia, claimed responsibility.The heat is onA spate of terrorist assaults in Russia, including a suicide-bombing on the Moscow metro, killed scores of people.

Krakauer, who has written for this Web site, explores a spate of sexual assaults that occurred on and around the campus of the University of Montana between 2008 and 2012.

A spate of recent assaults have been ascribed to Kurdish separatists, including an attack on a military outpost in the southeast two days ago that killed 11 soldiers, provoking a public outcry.

The police said Monday that they had arrested 150 people in raids at casinos and hotels across Macau after a spate of violent assaults raised fears of a revival of gang warfare in Macau, the world's most lucrative gambling market.

The number of women claiming to have been victims of a spate of sexual assaults and muggings in Cologne on New Year's Eve rose to 516 on Sunday, amid new evidence that police were completely overwhelmed by the violence, largely blamed on foreigners.