(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.
Hast
Definition:
() 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(2) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
(3) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(4) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(5) This was indicated in the present studies by a close correspondence of observed serum [Ca(++)] values with those predicted by the McLean-Hastings nomogram.
(6) This time, despite his wish to strike deals with similar haste, it has been more difficult, with only Asmir Begovic and Radamel Falcao arriving before the opening game.
(7) It is believed the tablet was secretly moved to London after its unveiling in a Hastings car park, but no one has spotted it since.
(8) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
(9) Under its founding president, Hastings Banda, Malawi became conservative internally with controversial diplomatic links – a police state under which civil liberties were heavily curtailed.
(10) Other factors frequently associated with incidents were inadequate communication among personnel, haste or lack of precaution, and distraction.
(11) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
(12) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(13) The peer said he was surprised that shareholders in Hastings and Worldpay had not raised the women issue as one of major concern.
(14) Along the coast, Hastings will be attempting to break the record it set last year for the world's largest gathering of pirates ( hastingspirateday.org.uk , 21 July.
(15) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(16) oxygen pressure in Hastings medium with glucose was localized in the cells of the periphery of the slice.
(17) Netflix has been forced to twice raise the amount it charges its 23 million subscribers to watch films, as chief executive Reed Hastings has made clear his determination to bolster the firm's library of content.
(18) No Southeastern trains will run into London Bridge or Charing Cross from December 24 to 28, apart from the Hastings service which will be diverted to London Bridge.
(19) Some of the 60 local authorities that are fast- tracking the government mortgage rescue scheme: South west: Salisbury, Plymouth, Weymouth South east and London: Tunbridge Wells, Slough, Hastings, Lewisham...#65279;, Westminster East: Basildon, Norfolk Midlands: Northampton, Leicester, Solihull, Warwick, Worcester North west and north east Wirral, Blackpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, Darlington, Middlesbrough Yorkshire and Humber Doncaster, Scarborough, Wakefield • This article was amended on Sunday 21 December 2008.
(20) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.