Sentence examples for volley of attacks from inspiring English sources

A palpable sense of nervousness has descended on Nairobi in the wake of a volley of attacks in Kenya this week.

In campaign headquarters across this unseasonably warm capital, senior advisers struggled to figure out who was up and who was down, prompting a dizzying volley of attacks.

And when they come one after the other, like the staccato volley of attacks across Europe and the US in this dreadful summer, they throw up difficult decisions and questions that can threaten the reputation of an entire news organisation.

Late Wednesday Mr. Obama released a counter advertisement citing editorials critical of Mr. McCain's latest volley of attacks and featuring an announcer who says, "John McCain, Same old politics, same failed policies".

After a volley of attacks he had aimed at Mr. Fox days earlier, his exasperated opponent accused Mr. Cardenas of "betraying himself and many Mexicans who believed in him," and even disparaged Mr. Cardenas's mother, a breach of etiquette that signaled a permanent break between the men.

But after an initially flat recitation of his health care ideas, the vice president fired volley after volley of attacks on Mr. Bush's proposals, throwing his opponent on the defensive and forcing him to rely on canned attack lines about Mr. Gore's "fuzzy numbers" and "Medi-scare tactics".

Onscreen, Mrs. Clinton grew in confidence, unleashing a volley of attack lines.

If we, by way of our actions in the cathedral, were giving a volley like the Aurora, it was a volley of attack against the uncivil politics of authoritarian powers, of which Putin and his friend Patriarch Kirill have become symbols — the latter who used his status as a holy man for wholly unholy purposes.

That provoked a volley of rocket attacks from the Gaza strip into Israel, one of which killed an Israeli woman.

In an effort to interrupt the volley of retaliatory attacks and defuse the exploding violence, Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his security cabinet decided that they would not respond militarily to a second day of Katyusha rocket fire on northern Israel.

Ronald L. Rice, who recently left his job as deputy mayor to campaign full time for the top job, has been able to launch a volley of personal attacks at Mr. Booker without actually talking much, if at all, about policy.