The Chechen rebels are no saints, but for the second time in four years Russia has undertaken an indiscriminate assault on civilians that breaks every rule it has accepted, including some that Boris Yeltsin put his name to only last week at the OSCE summit in Istanbul.The current fighting in Chechnya will end sooner or later.
Finally, his army appears to have undertaken a major assault with nerve gas.
Philadelphia has undertaken a broad assault on childhood obesity for years.
Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, said prosecution efforts were justified, even if they did not lead to convictions, as a way to deter future officials from undertaking a similar "assault on the law itself".
Republicans have so far seemed more interested in carping about an unaccountable agency constraining lending and crushing small banks (it's not, by the way) than actually undertaking a frontal assault on consumer protection.
"I personally believe that if Arafat were to undertake a major assault on Hamas and the militants at a time when he is not delivering anything to the Palestinians, it probably would work against him in his rivalry with Hamas," Telhami said.
Government forces are undertaking a twin-pronged assault on rebel positions in east and west Libya.
Supporters of the Clintons see an obvious reason for this, of course — that George W. Bush and his Republican Party have, for the past seven years, undertaken a ferocious and unbending assault on Clinton's progressive legacy.
In the same poll, 61% opposed the assault on Lebanon that Israel was undertaking at that time – an assault that was nevertheless effectively supported by Britain.
This time, its protests cannot be set aside as they were when NATO began airstrikes in Libya or when Western-led coalitions undertook military assaults in Iraq and Serbia.
Meanwhile, the writer Edmund Gosse was using autobiography — a subspecies of biography whose inherent subjectivity raises the tension between fact and interpretation to an even higher level — to undertake another assault on propriety.
