Sentences with phrase «to assail»

And though I do believe deeply, as one does when faith is verified by experience, I am an existentialist Christian when assailed by doubt.

Now on a book tour, Ms. Teachout is taking time to stump for Democratic State Senate candidates but has been noncommittal about endorsing Mr. Cuomo, who she repeatedly assailed for being too conservative.

Those are, of course, the exact same special interests that Cuomo regularly assails as the root cause of the problem in Albany.

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo assailed Mr. Collins's proposal.

In the past several years we have been assailed with reports of the benefits derivable from the transcendent dimension.

Trying to turn all this reporting into a coherent two - hour - long feature film is like using the ground meat from dozens of cows to produce a single burger (one of the many dangerous industry practices Schlosser assails in the book).

From the introductory hype promising an exhilarating experience, I expected to be assailed on each page by advanced and controversial ideas in science and technology.

Ms. Teachout, who has studied corruption, also assailed Mr. Cuomo over his office's meddling into the work of the Moreland Commission, an anticorruption panel that Mr. Cuomo created last year but then abruptly shut down, a matter that is now being investigated by federal prosecutors.

Critics assail Mayor de Blasio for focusing affordable housing in gentrifying neighborhoods.

Christ's death and resurrection is the overcoming of the powers which assail man, sin, death, the curse of the Law.

Leaning heavily on her tenure as secretary of state, Clinton assailed Trump's national security credentials on Tuesday, portraying him as a bungling businessman unequipped to serve as commander in chief.

But criticisms of his report continued to appear from time to time, some of them in the 1970s and thereafter from feminists who assailed what they regarded as his support of patriarchal families.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — the most powerful Democrat in Washington — unleashed a tweetstorm assailing President Donald Trump «s revised ban on travel from six mostly Muslim countries.

Even when assailed by violence and corrupted by bad faith — in fact, especially then — the commitment to the civil public square is to be sustained.

Nelligan also assailed Lebron for donating $ 150 to Democratic Guilderland County Legislator Bryan Clenahan, a contribution Lebron defended as a gesture for a longtime friend who handled his house closing at no charge while Lebron was unemployed.

But Deal repeatedly postponed that pledge after he was elected, and entering his final year in office, he made official what many lawmakers long figured was inevitable: There would be no rewrite of a formula he once assailed as a disservice to students, a drain on taxpayers and not suitable to «meet the needs of a 21st century classroom.»

She borrows a time - traveling Chronosphere from Time himself (Sacha Baron Cohen), but is repeatedly assailed by the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), who wants in on Alice's time travelling gig.

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Police reform and criminal justice advocates who support the so - called Right to Know Act assailed Mayor Bill de Blasio on Wednesday after the administration announced a deal with the NYPD and the Council speaker to implement department - wide reforms without writing them into law.

In each case, the state's appointed superintendents have pressed for expanded charter schools to provide more opportunities for students, while Cerf has been a lightning rod for what community opponents assail as «privatization» of their districts.

On the campaign trail and in a recent blitz of direct mail and TV ads, Eldridge has assailed what he calls a gap between Gibson's stated positions and his voting record.

Some of our friends have already told you how to best address the education needs (Diane Ravitch and Assailed Teacher).

He was assailed at the time, but in recent years, scientists have been watching with growing concern as events have unfolded in much the way Dr. Mercer predicted.

Olatoye, seated near the de Blasio administration's top lawyer, Zachary Carter, did not apologize, and council member after council member assailed her over several matters, including testimony in December before lawmakers in which she wrongly testified that more than 4,000 lead - paint abatements had been completed by workers with the proper certifications.

Giuliani also commended the police for their work while assailing de Blasio for his treatment of law enforcement.

The third ad assails the governor's efforts to keep Mr. Golisano and his allies out of the primaries, reminding voters of a similar attempt to knock Senator John McCain out of New York's 2000 presidential primary.

Last year, Donald Trump regularly assailed Hillary Clinton for her financial industry ties, projecting himself as the candidate who would stand up for regular people.

His work in the world of academia is far - reaching into cyberspace exploring the fine points of net neutrality and telecommunications protocol and yet, despite the high - minded rhetoric of academia, you're constantly assailed by the notion that Wu is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it.

Likewise, Wal - Mart (Research), long assailed for its contribution to urban sprawl, is building new stores that use solar energy to reduce costs and boost its image at the same time.

Richard Brodsky assailed Nassau DA Kathleen Rice over a program he called «electronic stop and frisk.»

According to a transcript provided by her campaign, Teachout assailed Cuomo's various 2010 campaign vows to clean up Albany as broken promises.

After strong forays into the subject of student voice through self - expression, clothes, print magazines and student - led organizing, several campaigns assailed schools for stifling student voice in the 1960s.

(Update: Mike Bloomberg delivered a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia where he praised Hillary Clinton's leadership and assailed Donald Trump's business acumen, calling him a «dangerous demagogue.»

If this innovative new Chrysler is a Hellcat, as I am told, then surely I am a ravenous pit bull that attacks without provocation and assails without regret leaving every opponent a mere heap of nuts and bolts because I own the night.

In Malaya a king shielded by an umbrella (above) turns golf into a daily rite, while in Japan 2 million novices are assailing more than 300 courses.

Often assailed as the synchronized swimming of the Winter Olympics, ice dancing is in fact a much more tense, more concentrated pursuit than figure skating because of the inherent restrictions the sport demands.

Former Gov. George Pataki traveled to Reno and assailed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for making «corrupt deals» to get health care reform passed.

Yet devote a half hour to Uprising's unconventional input method and immersion will reveal itself, eventually erupting into a feverish dance of dodging projectiles while assailing away at antagonists.

Tim Eller, the Press Secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Education, penned an Op - Ed in the Courier Times assailing the critics of the school voucher program in Senate Bill 1, specifically teachers union head Gary Papazian.

Republican senators who had previously assailed the nation's debt burden — including Senators Jeff Flake of Arizona and James Lankford of Oklahoma — eventually fell in line to support the bill after efforts to include a backstop against growing deficits failed.

The Senate Banking Committee assailed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for pushing employees to create as many as 2 million bogus bank and credit card accounts without customer consent — making customers pay overdraft and late fees on accounts they never knew they had.

The Senate Banking Committee assailed Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf for pushing employees to create as many as 2 million bogus bank and credit card accounts without customer consent — ...

In his letter to shareholders, the bond manager assailed the so - called Siegel constant — the equity cult's holy writ that investors taking the risk of equities will be rewarded with a 6.6 % real annual return on their investment over time.

The administration assailed China for «undermining true market competition» with state subsidies that encouraged excess production that depressed the price of key goods, including steel.

It comes to us in this world of sin, where lust and passion are on every hand, where fierce temptations assail us and try to turn us aside from the God - given standard of marriage.

All the powers which assail man's being and hope are met in the Cross — sin, death, the demonic powers, the judgment of the law, and despair at fulfilling it, the weight of guilt, the mystery of dying, the tragedy of history.