Sentence examples for under direct assault from inspiring English sources

As the news media gorged on the abortion-crime story, Levitt came under direct assault.

And both of those two are under direct assault.

Buyers were loyal, and Buick's turf, large cars, was not under direct assault from foreign competition in the early 1990s.

It was fear more than inspiration ― a pit-in-the-stomach anxiety that all the work they'd put in over the last eight years, the policies they'd helped pass and the political structures they'd promoted, was now under direct assault.

Meanwhile Magna Carta is under more direct assault.

This is a view that has come under direct, empirical assault with new and improved techniques for measuring mistranslation in vivo (Kramer and Farabaugh [ 61]).

After three days of intense fighting, the corps-sized 1st Polish Army under General Franciszek Latinik managed to repel a direct assault by six Red Army rifle divisions at Radzymin and Ossów.

A direct assault, if you want, on mediocrity".

Ms. Moore said that under the bill "abusers' rights prevail over the rights of the victim," and she assailed the measure as "a direct assault on women's lives".

This, however, is a direct assault on staff.

"Banning religion is a direct assault on our founding principles," Mr. Stockman said in a statement.