In the Gibson household, for example, 15-year-old twins cannot stop assaulting their mother, albeit with harsh language rather than their fists.
So has the rebel faction, whose goal is to depose Mr. Taylor, announcing cease-fires and saying it would stop assaults on the city, only to continue.
When Catholic students and activists began civil-rights protests in Belfast and Londonderry, in 1968, the police were clearly on the side of the Protestant government, and did little to stop assaults on the republican protesters.
Later, a rebel figure, Kabineh Janeh, said by telephone from Ghana, where both sides said they remained in peace talks, that the advance was simply to stop assaults on rebel positions outside the city.
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With a large crowd, the perpetrators might stop assaulting the victim if there are enough efforts to stop it, Schroeder said.
In addition, it has a Sexual Assault Education and Prevention Task Force in place and is planning training on effective "bystander intervention" to show students how to stop assaults in the early stages before they can escalate.
So while you are, in fact, leveling up, it feels like a non-stop assault from which you can't break away.
The bronze Stars of David commemorating Jewish Shoah victims embossed in the sidewalks below, and billboards with messages such as, "We Must Never Forget" overhead can feel like a non-stop assault of the city's horror-filled past.
He can make Matthews and his ilk forget their fear and their loathing only when he stops assaulting them by shamelessly brandishing that hideous skin, and only then will they deem his administration a success.
