Sentence examples for were sometimes attacked from inspiring English sources

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Official mosques were sometimes attacked.

For example in El Salvador in the early 1980s, we were sometimes attacked by both extremes of the political spectrum for our land tenure work.

How then could he justify having pets which hunted and which were sometimes attacked by animal welfare groups for killing many birds?

The city's firefighters, almost all of whom were white, were sometimes attacked — with guns, rocks, peashooters and even refrigerators dropped from rooftops — when they responded to alarms in minority neighborhoods, where most of the blazes erupted.

During the protests and riots of the late sixties, white firefighters were sometimes attacked in black neighborhoods; Goldberg notes that "black firefighters suddenly became highly sought after for highly visible roles".

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However, scientists have recently discovered that these nests are sometimes attacked by hostile fungi.

He was sometimes attacked for naïveté (as in his brave vote against authorizing the president to go to war with Iraq), but never for dishonesty.

Her lawyer, Mr. Schroeder, said he was troubled that Ms. Connett, "who will not be enriched in any way" by this case, was sometimes "attacked for causing trouble" for the city.

Because half of the actors play the supporters of the ʿAlids and half play their opponents, the latter are sometimes attacked and beaten at the end of the play.

The candidate who is sometimes attacked by feminists as a golden youth passing over them on his way to the old boys' club reminded the co-hosts that he was "surrounded by women" at home.

From what we have been able to glean from extracts, and from the description offered by director Suzanne Osten, who will initially be mounting a radio production, the script is Bergman's answer to the liberated excitement of the late 1960s, offering treatments of sexualities gay and straight, and the kind of contemporary political slant that he was sometimes attacked in his lifetime for avoiding.

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