(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.
Rush
Definition:
(n.) A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
(n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
(v. i.) To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
(v. i.) To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
(v. t.) To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
(v. t.) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
(n.) A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
(n.) Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
(n.) A perfect recitation.
(n.) A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
(n.) The act of running with the ball.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some retailers said April's downpours led to pent-up demand which was unleashed at the first sign of summer, with shoppers rushing to update their summer wardrobes.
(2) Thinking I had the dreaded Norovirus, I rushed home.
(3) Maguire's colleagues rushed to her side, some administering first aid while others held her attacker, witnesses said.
(4) But in the rush to design it, Girardet wonders if the finer details of waste disposal and green power were lost.
(5) Some 10 fire engines remained on the scene after rushing there to extinguish the many blazes caused by the crash.
(6) But if May rushes headlong into a panicked triggering of article 50 without a clear idea of what she wants out of negotiations, she will have left us at the mercy of 27 countries who have heard little but table-thumping and empty threats from ministers.
(7) Losing Murphy is a blow to the Oscars which has struggled to liven up its image amid a general decline in its TV ratings over the last couple of decades and a rush of awards shows that appeal to younger crowds, such as the MTV Movie Awards.
(8) Theresa May’s efforts as home secretary to launch the inquiry in 2014 revealed a rush to judgment and a faith that the great and the good – our own or somebody else’s – could get hold of this and control it.
(9) The spectacle earlier this year of London's mayor, Boris Johnson , rushing ahead to buy water cannon for use in the capital before the home secretary had authorised the use of such equipment, is hardly helpful.
(10) Nightmarish visions of suicide bombers and dead children, a rushed conversion to Catholicism, and a mental breakdown over the war on Iraq.
(11) It is essential that charities integrate new trustees well from day one – and the process must not be rushed.
(12) On Tuesday afternoon, there was speculation that the government was rushed into making the announcement of Kerslake's departure following a report on Monday's Newsnight programme which claimed that Kerslake had been sacked.
(13) I’m not satisfied until I collect everything' … EFL Cup Europa League International Champions Cup Community Shield Which competition was Ian Rush talking about when he said: 'This is why cup finals are so special, because anyone can beat anyone.
(14) Plibersek’s spokesman said on Friday: “Who is Mr Brandis to dictate the language on the Middle East peace negotiations?” The spokesman said the intervention this week amounted to “another foreign policy embarrassment for the Abbott government, which is why [Brandis] was forced by the foreign minister and the Foreign Affairs Department to rush out a statement about his inept pronouncements.” Labor ran into its own controversy earlier this year when Bill Shorten appeared to telegraph a shift in policy around the description of settlements in a major speech to the Zionist Federation of Australia.
(15) A British oil firm will tomorrow announce that it has struck oil off Greenland, a find that could trigger a rush to exploit oil reserves in the pristine waters of the Arctic.
(16) Lawyers acting for a severely disabled prisoner who was rushed from jail to a life-support machine in hospital, are asking the high court to rule he should not be sent back to a prison that cannot meet his medical needs.
(17) He advises first-time buyers not to rush in: "Try and save as much as you can: having a bigger deposit will not only mean you can get a mortgage, but also secure you a better rate."
(18) The Guardian recently revealed that the Danish government had been forced, on the eve of the Copenhagen summit , to rush through an emergency law making it impossible for criminal gangs to reclaim huge amounts of VAT on fraudulent trades they were making on Europe's various carbon exchanges.
(19) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Lamar Alexander voted yes but has previously expressed concerns about the rush to repeal without a replacement plan.
(20) The transport secretary, Philip Hammond, indicated that the government had no appetite for the kind of structural tinkering that broke up British Rail and rushed the system into private ownership in the 1990s.