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Example sentences for: assault

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Because Diana allegedly was hounded to her death by photographers, displaying or even looking at pictures of this kind was interpreted by commentators as venal: an assault on Diana's memory, if not an endorsement of the crime.
Wintel critics cheered the assault.
The NYT Op-Ed page publishes a two-fronted assault on George W. Bush's inability to name the leaders of India, Pakistan, and Chechnya.
Nine pyramid investment schemes collapsed, which wiped out the life savings of thousands of Albanians, which led to protests, which led to rebellion, which led to police giving loyalist civilians assault weapons, which led to gunfire, looting, and roving bands of robbers.
Truth is the basis for the power of a whistleblower, one that can withstand the assault of unprecedented odds against being heard put forth by that sum of political power, expediency, and money.