(n.) A violent onset or attack with physical means, as blows, weapons, etc.; an onslaught; the rush or charge of an attacking force; onset; as, to make assault upon a man, a house, or a town.
(n.) A violent onset or attack with moral weapons, as words, arguments, appeals, and the like; as, to make an assault on the prerogatives of a prince, or on the constitution of a government.
(n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery.
(n.) To make an assault upon, as by a sudden rush of armed men; to attack with unlawful or insulting physical violence or menaces.
(n.) To attack with moral means, or with a view of producing moral effects; to attack by words, arguments, or unfriendly measures; to assail; as, to assault a reputation or an administration.
Example Sentences:
(1) DI James Faulkner of Great Manchester police said: “The men and women working in the factory have told us that they were subjected to physical and verbal assaults at the hands of their employers and forced to work more than 80-hours before ending up with around £25 for their week’s work.
(2) The author's experience in private psychoanalytic practice and in Philadelphia's rape victim clinics indicates that these assaults occur frequently.
(3) Although the group is constantly the target of an all-out political assault, it has a robust national fundraising operation that allows it to subsidize abortions for poor women and expand to new locations.
(4) The attitudes and practices of 96 doctors toward spousal assault victims in the Australian Capital Territory, Australia, were investigated by questionnaire surveys distributed to general practitioners.
(5) Some have been threatened and assaulted, while others’ homes have been ransacked, their families living in constant fear.
(6) I was amazed by the sheer scale of the operation, easily mistaken for a full military assault on a kraken.
(7) After Mousa's death, the surviving detainees were subjected to further assaults.
(8) Some 300 million women and girls are forced to defecate outside, exposed not only to the risks of disease and bacterial infection, but also harassment and assault by men.
(9) Alcohol use appeared to be a significant ingredient in the production of the assaultive behavior in the majority of the cases.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump ‘sways malevolently’ behind Hillary Clinton Instead, he began the night by assembling a group of women in a press conference to revisit alleged sexual assaults by Bill Clinton, before confronting his opponent hardest on her private email server.
(11) It is Vine who initiated this latest assault on Ed’s character.
(12) Sexual assault of women in the United States may have a prevalence rate of 25% or more.
(13) Inevitably, and necessarily, Labour has appeared split as the coalition has captured broad public support for its assault on the deficit.
(14) Reports of violence associated with delusional misidentification are reviewed and four patients described who were either perpetrators or victims of assaults as a consequence of the syndromes of Frégoli, Intermetamorphosis, Subjective Doubles and Capgras.
(15) It is believed that many women have yet to report assaults, and police appealed for people who had not already done so to come forward.
(16) Beatings with metal bars and cables were followed by so-called “security checks”, during which women in particular were subjected to rape and sexual assault by male guards.
(17) The retired judge’s report outlines multiple rapes and indecent assaults on children by Savile, which she claims were all “in some way associated with the BBC”.
(18) Sexual assault victims (1,059) under the age of 17 were evaluated over a period of 44 months in a teaching, metropolitan county emergency room.
(19) As Bradford University professor Paul Rogers told Jones, the bombing of Mali "will be portrayed as 'one more example of an assault on Islam'".
(20) It doesn't surprise me that a man whose hit song sounded like an assault anthem and featured a video full of naked models would attempt to get back his wife via public pressure and a threatening music video.
Dynastic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings.
Example Sentences:
(1) Speculation about a shift in power at the top focuses on Kim's sons – and on his apparent wish to secure a third-generation dynastic succession.
(2) Wolff suggested the world was witnessing the end of the Murdochs' dynastic ambitions.
(3) Bush immediately distanced himself from his father and brother’s time in the White House, seeking to counter criticism that his return would symbolise Washington’s dynastic capture.
(4) They chose a change from the dynastic regime that has ruled our country since 1967,” Ping wrote.
(5) Indeed, in the modern context, it is not hard to see how a crashed financial market might be viewed as a powerful suggestion that party leaders are losing heaven’s favour and their own legitimacy, and, worse, that a new dynastic cycle may be in the offing.
(6) The tombs of the Dukes of Brabant were not concentrated in one dynastic necropolis, but located as well in abbeys (Affligem and Villers-la-Ville) as in churches belonging to cloisters or chapters, in Louvain and Brussels, the two towns successively used as the ducal residence.
(7) As Greece descended into economic crisis, there were almost no signs that the young ideologue, an ardent admirer of Ernesto “Che” Guevara – he named the youngest of his two sons after the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary – would emerge as the wild card to challenge Europe or Athens’ own dynastic politics and vested interests.
(8) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I’m putting the Beltway on notice.
(9) A dynastic battle for the White House has never seemed less likely.
(10) It is written by Bruce Wagner (author of the excoriating I'm Losing You) and all about a dynastic Hollywood family, deeply embedded and dysfunctionally addicted to the culture of celebrity in Los Angeles.
(11) These marriages might be celibate, or dynastic formalities for the production of a new generation, while allowing for outside interests: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West are a case in point.
(12) But New England is overflowing with enough dynastic ambition right now to make even scions of the gilded age blush.
(13) Bush struggles as Clinton shines in dynastic battle for the White House Read more “I don’t think he has the infrastructure,” McLinden said of Rubio, though he did note that the Florida senator “gives a great speech.” After Rubio’s speech at the fairgrounds on Saturday, he was received like a rock star … or at the very least like Donald Trump, surrounded by reporters, fans and even professional autograph seekers, sensing a good investment.
(14) The Maldives has all sorts of political woes but dynastic rule is not one of them.
(15) But constraints from Brussels and "expert" ideological agreement mean that, despite rhetorical hyperbole, the two dynastic heirs will deliver fiscal tightening or monetary liquidity in exactly the same way.
(16) In Greece, the absence of ideological differences means that dynastic provenance, the latest corruption scandal or the prospect of getting a job for the unemployed son or daughter decides elections.
(17) Why are dynastic politics so tenacious on the subcontinent?
(18) Kim, who had been living in exile with his family in Macau under Chinese protection, had spoken publicly in the past against his family’s dynastic control of the isolated, nuclear-armed state.
(19) And yet some people find North Korea and its dynastic trio of Kims, well, funny.
(20) But Paul, the son of libertarian candidate Ron Paul, is hardly without dynastic pretensions of his own.