Sentence examples for when the assault started from inspiring English sources

Early last week, when the assault started, I happened to be in Diwaniya, another southern city, as part of my work as a reporter and translator for The New York Times.

Belaid said the assault started when the army fired "warning shots" at militants trying to flee with hostages.

So when the assaults start coming on police officers that's the measures that are taken.

The assault started poorly, when Canadian artillery plans were captured by soldiers of the 90th Panzergrenadier Division's 200th Regiment.

The assault started at 1 30 a.m. when at least 100 militants driving pickup trucks and armed with grenades and small arms attacked the main gate of the prison, which housed 900 inmates, provincial government officials said.

Witnesses in Peshawar said the assault started around 10 a.m., when nine heavily armed militants, disguised in paramilitary uniforms, slipped through a military graveyard and leapt over the back wall of the Army Public School.

The assault started at 22 00, and after fighting throughout the night the village was eventually captured.

When the government assault started, activists said that rebels had established a large armory inside the city.

The Pathankot assault started before dawn on Saturday, when a group of gunmen - wearing Indian army uniforms - entered the residential quarters on the base.

The amphibious assault started at dawn on 25 April , 1915

The opposition, yelling in unison an Arab Spring-inspired slogan, "dégage!" or "give it up!" aimed at Captain Sanogo, had gathered in a courtyard when the assault began and the rocks started flying.