Sentence examples for was attacked for using from inspiring English sources

In 2004, Donald Rumsfeld, then US defence secretary, was attacked for using one to sign condolence letters to the grieving families of killed soldiers (one father said Rumsfeld "had time for golf and the ranch, but not enough to sign a decent signature with a pen for his beloved hero soldiers").

Martin Amis brought his cousin Lucy into his memoir, Experience, and was attacked for using her murder by Fred and Rose West to add a frisson of sex-crime-horror.

Before the first festival even opened, it was attacked for using a jury to pick shows, which, the argument went, violated the spirit of the movement, started by the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the middle of the last century.

He also said he was worried that food companies might not be so willing to adopt "innovative technologies" if they are attacked for using them.

Some of the tricks Moore has been attacked for using — the slow-motion replay of live feed of President Bush before delivering a televised address, for example — are used by Morris, too.

As the United States debates whether to support the Obama administration's proposal that Syrian forces should be attacked for using chemical weapons against civilians, this video, shot in the spring of 2012, joins a growing body of evidence of an increasingly criminal environment populated by gangs of highwaymen, kidnappers and killers.

Benefits Street, also on Channel 4, was attacked for unfairly portraying people using the welfare system in a negative light.

British audiences are used to a diet of tabloids and celebrity gossip magazines, but in America TMZ is attacked for its use of paparazzi images and paying tip fees for stories.

Cost overruns and expensive add-ons like a toll road inside the levees in Dallas — now all but dead — have bogged down the Trinity River Corridor Project, while Trinity Vision has been attacked for its use of eminent domain to the benefit of private developers.

Yealland has been attacked for his use of electrical stimulation and harsh disciplinary procedures in popular and scientific literature during and after World War I.

The federal agency has been attacked for failing to use its authority to protect the public from the dangerous practice of large-scale drug compounding that led to the outbreak.