What's the difference between onslaught and outpouring?
Onslaught
Definition:
(n.) An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault.
(n.) A bloody fray or battle.
Example Sentences:
(1) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
(2) It is the sort of malevolent onslaught that has caused many hardened media pundits to quake.
(3) Every couple of years, evidence emerges to underline the unparalleled nature of the state onslaught and ruthless rule-breaking to overcome resistance in the mining communities, bought at a cost of £37bn in today's prices .
(4) Even the deep cuts of the IMF visit period in the mid-1970s or Margaret Thatcher's spending onslaught of the early 1980s will have been less dramatic than what now lies ahead.
(5) My partner and I withstood the onslaught, but eventually the relationship crumbled under the pressure.
(6) Miraculously, it survived the various onslaughts, including a Supreme Court challenge, more or less intact and it should make a significant difference to women's health (pdf).
(7) Vastly outnumbered by the Kremlin's ground and air forces, the Georgian government announced it was pulling back its troops to defend the capital, Tbilisi, against a feared Russian onslaught.
(8) The late onslaught was the only spell in the entire match when Watford had attacked with any real momentum.
(9) It’s the continual onslaught that will eventually kill the reef.
(10) The way western politicians and media have pontificated about Israel's onslaught on Gaza, you'd think it was facing an unprovoked attack from a well-armed foreign power.
(11) The onslaught was triggered by the execution of Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr , a critic of the Saudi monarchy.
(12) The party still faces a barrage of tactical voting by the right and left to stop it winning final-round votes – described by one Lille party worker as “the onslaught of an armada”.
(13) The experts have always known they must make their work watertight against such an onslaught, and every conclusion made by the IPCC must pass scrutiny by all of the world's governments before it can be published.
(14) Today it is the BBC taking the onslaught as Dame Janet Smith’s report highlights decades of sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile under the noses of senior managers – whom Smith kindly clears because they “generally did not hear rumours”.
(15) Amnesty International has called it an “onslaught on dissent” in the runup to elections next year.
(16) As the new year begins, Erdoğan appears set on strengthening his grip on power, by both democratic and undemocratic means, and pursuing his onslaught against the Kurds inside Turkey and in Syria.
(17) Determined to keep his party together ahead of an expected onslaught by MPs opposing the outline deal, Tsipras summoned his finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, and Nikos Filis, representative of the Syriza parliamentary group, to the Athens meeting, before a gathering of his parliamentary party on Tuesday.
(18) They took peaceful action on behalf of us all, standing up against destructive Arctic oil drilling and the onslaught of climate change.
(19) The strange thing is that the late onslaught that might have been expected never really materialised.
(20) This latest set of proposals is one part of a massive onslaught by Gordon Brown's hyperactive government on the recession.