Sentences with phrase «as the assault on»

And yet there was the prime minister, characterizing Boeing's commercial dispute with Bombardier as an assault on Canada itself, and threatening to cancel an order for 18 of the company's Super Hornet warplanes.

Whenever somebody suggested tougher rules on home loans, the mortgage industry painted it as an assault on homeownership and equal opportunity.

I'm extremely unsettled by what I see as an assault on anyone in this country who is not white, male, and Christian.

I also saw illustrated the temptation to treat any suggestion of the need for substantial change as an assault on that identity itself, sparking defensiveness and resistance.

Martha's comments indicated that she did recognize why these measures were taken, and yet she seemed to regard them as an assault on her dignity, one that made «life not worth living.»

The suffering which Jesus was to undergo, which was a result of many individual sins (the betrayal of Judas, the envy of the Sanhedrin, the cowardice of Pilate, the injustice of the crowd) was seen by the Son of God against the background of Sin itself as an assault on the will of an all loving Creator uttering it forth through his Word.

In seeing the Protestant Reformation as an assault on Christendom from within, the Catholics were partly right: the Protestant Reformation was destined to sound the death - knell to Christendom.

Science by all means can comment and deny it because there's no proof but religion (and by extension, religious people) take this as an assault on them and their beliefs and so fight back.

The Tractarians regarded this as an assault on the episcopacy and indirectly on the concept of apostolic succession.

And with their recent injuries, the whole squad could be needed as the assault on four trophies goes on.

The associations perceive any stray sheep as an assault on their supremacy, an attack their bottom line.»

The All Progressive Congress has described as an assault on democracy Wednesday's forceful removal of the Mace at the senate.

McDonnell labelling Labour plotters «fucking useless» was accurate if not the promised kinder politics, just as assaults on Smith aren't straight talking honest politics.

Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan) took the new rule as an assault on civil liberties.

But Carpenter movies such as Assault on Precinct 13 and Escape From New York are not only more thrilling but also funnier.

I liked Harrison Ford's curmudgeon, and I didn't take the film as some assault on modern day news.

Here he's an evil Svengali, who teaches rock»n' roll as an assault on the audience; the girls must batter their fans into submission or admit they're losers.

It's perhaps not surprising to note that Carpenter does a superb job of immediately capturing the viewer's attention, as Assault on Precinct 13 is rife with the various touchstones one has come to expect from the prolific filmmaker - including a memorable, self - composed score and a decidedly distinctive visual sensibility.

Guggenheim tried real hard this fall to argue that anyone who regards WFS as an assault on teacher unions is missing the point.

None of this, however, should be taken as an assault on charters» popularity or effectiveness.

Here's hoping DPS steps back with an open mind and uses this structural innovation as a means to improve rather than just seeing it as an assault on what they think they should be done to schools.

At CPAC last month, Jindal described the case as an assault on the American dream — and on the poor children of Louisiana.

As Barber predicted, «What begins as an assault on bureaucratic rigidity becomes an assault on government and all things public... (destroying) a people's right to govern themselves publicly... (and) to establish the conditions for the development of public citizens.»

To those who see any regulation of the industry as an assault on their liberties and profits, The HSUS's new partnership with responsible breeders hasn't gone unnoticed.

Some of the longer battles have been split into parts, such as the Assault on Xuchang; with one half playing as Sun Ce as he is tormented by a sorcerer playing mind tricks on him with ghosts of his past, followed by the second half playing as Sun Quan taking control of the battle in Sun Ce's absence and leading the assault on Cao Cao's fortress.

In her catalog essay, Rosalind E. Krauss describes the Rorschach paintings as an assault on Abstract Expressionism: their anonymity usurps their authority.

The - isms of art's past half century may not have much else in common, but pretty much all first came to attention as assaults on the idea of «pure» painting.

At the time of their creation, however, they were understood more as assaults on existing social values.

Clown Torture functions in very much this way: as an assault on viewers» aural and visual perception.

Proposing regulatory solutions rather than technological ones similarly motivated one side of the population to take it as a new justification for their political beliefs, and the other side to see it as an assault on their freedom and motivated them to find flaws in it.

All condemn Mann's tactics as an assault on the free press.

As assaults on staff increase, more staff leave, more staff are on sickness absence, and morale declines.

As assaults on mental health workers continues to rise it is important for staff who have suffered assaults at work to report each case as quickly as possible.

But progressives, including Massachusetts Democrat Elizabeth Warren, have repeatedly framed the bill as an assault on consumers that will undermine crucial reforms.

Not exact matches

Facebook also came under renewed scrutiny for maintaining Thiel on its board, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was quoted as saying support of Trump was not equivalent to «accepting sexual assault.»

This is, in a nutshell, McConnell's case for reelection: that as Kentucky's heavyweight in Washington, he'll thwart the assault liberals are waging not just on the health care system and the coal industry but, more broadly, on the state's way of life.

A renewed push for a common securities regulator will be seen as yet another assault on provincial sovereignty.

The summer started with a reasonable (if clumsy) attempt by the government to stop incorporated individuals from taking advantage of the lower small - business tax rate, and ended with people such as Arlene Dickinson, the investor and Dragon's Den star, talking about an assault on entrepreneurship.

There are also awkward gaps in the history it archives, such as the dearth of footage documenting one of the largest massacres of civilian protesters in modern world history — the infamous assault on a Muslim Brotherhood — led sit - in shortly after the military coup of 2013, which killed more than 800 civilians.

The reports detailed other examples of people having their warnings of sexual assault at Mexican resorts taken down on the same basis as Love's, or because the website claimed they were second - hand information.

Thousands of people joined a global March for Science with Washington the epicenter of a movement to fight back against what many see as an «assault on facts» by populist politicians.

It «will either be a one - time, one - off, fire - and - forget retaliation for a heinous chemical - weapons assault on civilians, or it will serve as a signal to the Assad regime and its allies that the free ride for mass murder in Syria is now over,» Hof said.

«Wilding,» when teenagers from Chicago's tougher neighborhoods invade the wealthier ones and do everything from rob convenience stores to assault passersby, gave way to bloodier crimes as Chicago's gang culture splintered in on itself, The Daily Beast reported in August.

BEIRUT, March 23 - Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta on Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month - long assault by the army.

When prime - time hosts — who have never served our country in any capacity — dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller — all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of «deep - state» machinations — I can not be part of the same organization, even at a remove.

As law enforcement officers descended on the town of 21,000 equipped with armored trucks, body armor, camouflage, and assault rifles, and fired tear gas and rubber bullets into crowds of protesters during the last two weeks, civilians and politicians are making call to rein in the weapons arsenals cops have been amassing.

Shortly before he stepped down as vice president, Biden urged the Trump administration to continue prioritizing the issue of sexual assault on campuses.

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Protesters are demanding protection from gun violence, including a ban on assault weapons such as the rifle used in Parkland, a prohibition on high - capacity magazines that let killers shoot long bursts without reloading, and more effective background checks for gun purchases.

Parker was acquitted in the rape case more than a decade ago and Celestin had his sexual assault conviction overturned on appeal (a higher court deemed his trial attorney ineffective), but the two men have come under fire once again as the media reports troubling details from the case, which included accusations that Parker and Celestin, then both 19, had sex with a Penn State freshman while she was unconscious after a night of heavy drinking.