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Example sentences for: onslaught

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Newspapers' spin: They'll never get that far , since gun-makers can't withstand the federal onslaught.
In the East Timorese U.N. compound, civilians cowered in fear of the next paramilitary onslaught.
The Gupta empire began to crumble in the fifth century, with the onslaught of the so-called White Huns.
Serb defendants' excuses: 1) they weren't aware of the concentration camps that killed and tortured Muslims; 2) the camps started out innocently and then got out of hand; or 3) they killed prisoners because they anticipated a murderous onslaught by Muslims.
Le Monde of Paris led its Sunday-Monday edition with a lament about "European impotence" in relation to the Russian onslaught on Chechnya.