Sentences with phrase «often assailed»

The mayor has continued to press for police reform and has spoken out aggressively on issues of economic inequality, often assailing the behavior of Wall Street firms that Mr. Bloomberg vigorously defended.

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The helplessness that assails the grief - stricken often leads them to envisage the role of the religious leader in a symbolic aspect as the representative of God.

One of the most striking features of Benedict's time in office is how frequently he has been assailed and disparaged by certain members of the «Catholic left» (for want of a better term)» often harshly and bitterly.

Her character is, like all great noir heroes, caught up in the currents of often unseen forces, partly responsible for what assails her and partly a victim of circumstance.

She motivated and guided many of her students to excel as bilingual educators and she often fought shoulder to shoulder with legislators, colleagues and leaders against proponents of practices and policies assailing bilingual education.

Quite often, amongst the usually entitled (and overwhelmingly white) anti-charter, anti-high standards, and anti-progress groups, education reform is assailed as one of the problems with the American education system.

One (unnamed) commentor assails me for a a lack of «objectivity» because I critique this affirmance of an above - guideline sentence but often praise affirmances of below - guidelines sentences.