Sentence examples for were coming under attack from inspiring English sources

Some Democrats expressed fears that party figures were coming under attack in advance of the 6 November congressional elections.

The defendants claimed they had been acting in self-defence in the belief that they were coming under attack from the officers.

Fortunately, Mr. Keller arranged a part-time job for Mrs. McLean, doing community outreach for the the Wadsworth Atheneum at a time when museums nationwide were coming under attack for underrepresenting African-American art in their collections.

In 2007 the FARC killed 11 of the kidnapped men when the group of guerrillas holding them thought they were coming under attack by Colombian Army troops seeking to free the captives; it later turned out that the group had mistakenly clashed with another FARC unit.

By the late 1960s freak shows were coming under attack as demeaning to people with disabilities, but Mr. Hall maintained that the sideshow — especially in an era before equal-opportunity laws and medical treatments had somewhat leveled the playing field — was one of the few places people with these conditions could make a decent living.

But now, Amgen's money machine is coming under attack.

Now it is the ownership itself that is coming under attack.

Increasingly, that view is coming under attack, notably by New York's attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman.

She left the company just as it was coming under attack for huge accounting failures.

"Energy drinks are coming under attack because of the branding and marketing strategies.

Carney is coming under attack for yo-yoing on his forward guidance.