(v. t.) To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
(v. t.) To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like.
(v. t.) To attack morally, or with a view to produce changes in the feelings, character, conduct, existing usages, institutions; to attack by words, hostile influence, etc.; as, to assail one with appeals, arguments, abuse, ridicule, and the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) In confidence rape, the assailant is known to some degree, however slight, and gains control over his victim by winning her trust.
(2) Preliminary murder charges have been lodged against two men – both students at Islamic religious schools, who were arrested at the scene after being overpowered by bystanders – and against a third assailant who fled and has yet to be found, an officer said.
(3) The assailant was from another part of Afghanistan and had been working in Khost province for about a year, he said.
(4) "While the state security forces in some instances intervened to prevent violence and protect fleeing Muslims, more frequently they stood aside during attacks or directly supported the assailants, committing killings and other abuses," said an HRW report released on Monday.
(5) Supportive mothers (n = 71) believed that the child was telling the truth and that the assailant was primarily responsible.
(6) In the second, the two assailants pleaded guilty this week at Brighton crown court; one was given a two-year conditional discharge and another awaits sentencing.
(7) Didier Enrique “Electric” Ramirez was apprehended for his alleged role in the killing of Nelson García , 39, who was shot dead earlier this month by at least two assailants following a dispute with local landowners, authorities said in a statement.
(8) Parameters shared by two or more criminal acts allegedly committed by the same assailant were compared with the same parameters recorded from 50 or 100 other mutually independent criminal acts committed by other known assailants.
(9) "Just this week I'm assailed mightily for going after Islam and had been for a very long time before that."
(10) Up to three assailants were still inside the British Council building fighting against Afghan security forces and Nato troops, Kabul police spokesman Hashmatullah Stanikzai said.
(11) Such swagger would look naïve and unreflexive now, in a country assailed by anxiety about its own impotence in the world.
(12) Assailants were usually adolescent and young adult men of the same race; however, 43% of children less than 5 years of age were killed by women.
(13) The mean age at time of assault was 21.7 years and the mean number of assailants was 2.8.
(14) Unknown assailants attacked Mustafa Barghouti, the leader of the Palestinian National Initiative.
(15) The assailant was a women in 61 pc of cases, a man in 35 pc of cases and a child in the remainder.
(16) It is concluded that social heredity, heavy consumption of alcohol and emotional dependence on the male assailant are major reasons for the woman's inability to break away from a relationship characterized by repeated battering.
(17) The assailant later admitted the assault after being shown the video footage and was jailed for five months in February.
(18) The attack marks the latest flaring of political violence in the deeply polarised kingdom, where months of anti-government rallies have been marred by sporadic gun and grenade attacks by unknown assailants.
(19) The threat of transmission of HIV was used by the assailant in 16 cases and sexually transmitted diseases, presumed consequent upon the attack, were found in 5 (18%).
(20) Before the criminal law was enacted, California allowed victims to sue their virtual assailants, but that is an expensive and time-consuming option.
Rouble
Definition:
(n.) A coin. See Ruble.
Example Sentences:
(1) Navalny, represented by two defence lawyers, will argue that he did not lead a criminal group to embezzle 16m roubles (£333,000) from Kirovles, a state-run timber firm, while advising the region's liberal governor, Nikita Belykh.
(2) Under Russia's anti-gay propaganda law, anyone promoting "non-traditional sexual relations" to minors face fines of up to 5,000 roubles (£100), while businesses and schools could get fines up to 500,000 roubles (£10,000).
(3) The rouble is in freefall – it’s lost 40% of its value since the beginning of the year – Putin is resurgent and every week comes the news that another independent media outlet is being closed or the editor sacked and a government stooge appointed in their place.
(4) Those who were used to travelling abroad have already had to scale back as the rouble made the cost of visiting foreign cities prohibitive; and rising food prices have made it harder to balance the books for many families.
(5) Russia’s credit rating has been downgraded to junk status for the first time in a decade due to the collapsing oil price, the tumbling value of the rouble and sanctions imposed because of its intervention in Ukraine.
(6) They are between a rock and a hard place.” Putin said in his state of the nation address earlier this month that Russians should take advantage of sanctions and the falling rouble to develop domestic industry.
(7) Such a project could take years and billions of taxpayer roubles.
(8) Navalny was jailed and given a 20,000-rouble (£280) fine by a Moscow court for disobeying police orders and organising the protests, which led to more than 1,000 people being detained.
(9) Economic losses including damage caused by temporary disability, invalidity and premature deaths accounted for 11.1 million roubles.
(10) Since the start of the year, stock markets have lost 14% of their value and the rouble is down 8% against the dollar.
(11) The marketing slogan was: “There are 1,000 reasons not to believe in independent television, but just 1,000 roubles will get it for you.” Now, the price has gone up, to 4,800 roubles per year, and the channel has around 60,000 subscribers, with Muscovites making up nearly 40% of that number.
(12) In 2015, roughly 1bn roubles (£10.2m) was sidelined for Cossack groups in the Kuban region, the RBC newspaper reported .
(13) • Russian market indexes plummeted and the central bank sold $10bn in an effort to stop a slide of the rouble.
(14) As the eurozone is easing monetary policy to ward off deflation, Russia’s central bank raised its key interest rate to 9.5% from 8% in an attempt to address a sliding rouble and tackle inflation.
(15) Putin will next year increase its global budget by 40% to 15.38bn roubles (£183m), up from 11.87bn roubles this year.
(16) Those charged with breaking the law will be fined from 5,000 (£108) to 500,000 roubles.
(17) Russia is spending 2.3tn roubles (£22bn) to shore up its economy as sanctions bite and after its debt was downgraded to junk.
(18) The rouble rallied again in the afternoon, recovering from a low point of over 100 to the euro to reach the 90 mark, but that figure still leaves Russians stunned, given the rate at the beginning of this year.
(19) Igor Sechin, the chairman of blacklisted, Kremlin-owned oil group Rosneft, has asked the government to dole out 1.5 trillion roubles (£25bn) to help the state-owned oil giant company refinance its debts.
(20) Early on Tuesday, the rouble hit 52.88 to the dollar, its strongest since 8 December.