Sentence examples for under the assaults from inspiring English sources

He's also comparatively young (at 58), and as Lear begins shrinking into confusion and senescence under the assaults of fortune and his ungrateful daughters, Mr. Hicks's efforts to appear feeble, stooped and ravaged by weakness are manifestly just that — efforts.

Under the assault of Toey's expertise and contempt, Forever 21 didn't stand a chance.

Their social contract is fraying under the assault of global standards.

But her forehand, if not yet the equal of her flowing two-handed backhand, has improved under the assault.

Adorno was another of Europe's dispossessed, suffering the breakup of European culture under the assault of Fascism and Nazism.

In the meantime, the walls of the building, known here as the volunteer house, are peeling under the assault of sun and rain and wind.

By the end of the 13th century bc, Egypt's domination over southern Canaan had waned, and the Hittites collapsed under the assault of enemies from the north.

It not only caught the incalculable power of the collapse, but managed -- under the assault -- to prevent the Hudson's waters from flooding Lower Manhattan.

The rebels seemed undeterred, holding their positions under the assault and even appearing in uniform in a suburb Aracinovo, less than four miles from the capital, Skopje.

Some, like the elder Pastor Schroeder, wilt under the assault, fleeing into shelters ignored during the bull market, like bonds and money market funds.

A battalion of the best troops the Communists had would die or be captured, because if the reserve buckled under the assault Cao and Vann could always reinforce with more troops, which the Communists could not do.