Sentences with phrase «fierce attacks on»

Makassar was formely named Ujung Pandang the capital of South Sulawesi is the home to Bugis sailors, infamous for their fierce some attacks on European traders in the 16th and 17th centuries.

After spending torrid years with then Candidate Akufo - Addo in opposition, leading all the fierce attacks on his fellow Northerner, former President John Mahama, and hoping to play a key role in a New Patriotic Party administration, Information Minister, Mustapha Abdul Hamid, is instead, reported playing second fiddle to his deputies.

«The 5 - Star Movement is the real winner of the election,» said SEL leader Nichi Vendola, who said that his coalition would have to deal with Grillo, who mixes fierce attacks on corruption with policies ranging from clean energy to free Internet.

Inspired by Billy Joe's fierce attack on the course and its forests, Lema turned in a 68, taking only 27 putts in the process.

In a fierce attack on the leadership, Montgomerie said he had lost faith in the party's «grand repositioning» away from its grassroots and that Europe was the final straw.

General Mike Jackson, who stepped down as head of the army earlier this year, has launched a fierce attack on the government for failing its troops.

In a statement by its Director of Public Relations & Information, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, the Force says, «It is instructive to note that with the recent successes recorded by the military in the North East against the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT), intelligence reports revealed that due to the fierce attack on the sect, the BHT elements are presently in disarray and looking for soft targets to strike especially military installations.»

That was embarrassing, but worse was to follow when his former prisons minister, Ann Widdecombe, launched a fierce attack on her former boss.

«It is instructive to note that with the recent successes recorded by the military in the North East against the Boko Haram Terrorists (BHT), intelligence reports revealed that due to the fierce attack on the sect, the BHT elements are presently in disarray and looking for soft targets to strike especially military installations.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood is criticised for her fierce attack on UKIP by a former party leader.

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood has been criticised for her fierce attack on UKIP by a former party leader.

Later, in a fierce attack on schools, Education Secretary Kirsty Williams accused some of putting pupils in for science exams that were too easy for them.

Clearly budget pressures are weighing on states and school districts, but there has also been a fierce attack on the value of class size reduction.

You don't have a leg to stand on with your fierce attack on science.

Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint has launched a fierce attack on «quasi-hysterical Europeans» and their «Chicken Little» attitudes to global warming.

Not exact matches

Carly Fiorina's fierce and passionate attack on Planned Parenthood's fetal organ harvesting operation has gotten praise from conservatives and bitter attacks from liberals.

For perhaps more than any other philosopher of modernity Nietzsche espouses the fiercest version of iconoclasm, an attack on the image that, for sheer ferocity, has its only philosophical counterpart in Plato.

He was moved to fierce expostulations against an Alsatian priest, Jakob Wimpfeling, who had written a Little Book on Purity attacking the worldliness and self - indulgence of clergy, both those in the monasteries and the ordinary massing priests, and had specially attacked the Augustinians for accepting the well - known Sermon to the Eremites as written by St Augustine himself.

In fact, it took a fierce public reaction and backlash for the government to even make a U-turn on providing 9/11 first - responders with healthcare for the afflictions they got by helping in the aftermath of the attacks.

As a side note, since Christianity is very much on retreat giving way to atheism in Western Europe, I have encountered several people from the left who defended Christianity against fierce attacks from atheists.

Trump's attack on Gillibrand sparked a fierce backlash, as critics said the president made an outlandish and sexually suggestive accusation against the Senate's foremost fighter against sexual harassment.

9 January 2002: The white paper comes under fierce attack in two days of Lords debate on constitutional reform.

Faso» fiercest attacks, however, have been on Teachout's presumed socialist sensibilities.

Troops fighting insurgency in the North East, on Monday night neutralized several Boko Haram terrorist mercenaries at Mamman Nur in Borno State after a fierce battle after they attempted a surprise attack on the 81 division Task Force Battalion.

The attack by the Labour leadership candidate Andy Burnham is the fiercest assault yet on Mandelson's decision to publish his memoirs, as well as on the leadership style of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

For all his fierce partisan attacks on Republicans in Washington, Weiner was viewed as the most moderate in the field of a half - dozen Democrats looking to succeed Mayor Bloomberg.

Lately, however, the pharmaceuticals industry's own philosophy on cognition - enhancing drugs has come under fierce attack.

Director Craig Gillespie deftly combines Harding's dramatic story — about class, physical abuse and fierce determination — with black comedy about celebrity and about the bumbling attack on Kerrigan.

The Shallows was a fierce shark attack flick with Blake Lively fighting for survival on a rock and when he works with Neeson, his films feel like throwbacks to 70's Clint Eastwood or Steve McQueen dramas, of tough guys playing cool cops.

Based on research and interviews by the screenwriter Paul Laverty, this movie tells the fictional story of Daniel Blake, a middle - aged widower in the North East who can't work or get benefits after a near - fatal heart attack, and the story is told with stark and fierce plainness: unadorned, unapologetic, even unevolved.

Soon everyone's problems are literally blown up when a deadly swarm of alien ships attacks the Enterprise during a routine dispatch, leaving the survivors stranded on a distant planet while others are held prisoner by the leader of the violent pack, a warlord named Krall (a fierce Idris Elba) who's searching for an artifact that is the missing puzzle piece he needs to finish building — what else?

In California, the attacks on campus free speech have been fierce and increasing.

Enemies appear as fierce as ever, with their over-the-top reactions to your explosive attacks, while special attacks appear exaggeratingly fun to watch on screen.

Nintendo plans to release a free update on Dec 2, 2016 which includes a new area, the Den of Trials, containing 30 stages as well as two new outfits: Linebeck's costume allows players to see inside chests before opening them and Fierce Deity Armor offers powered up attacks and a sword beam which splits in four directions.

Top Attack You can Top Attack your opponent by Holding Back and Fierce Punch, Fierce Kick or Medium Punch depending on your fighter.

Attack on Titan: Humanity in Chains captures the feel of the anime splendidly, and the action is fast and fierce.

Martin Kippenberger mounted an extraordinarily fierce and comprehensive attack on those limits.

Einstein faced a little of that, but mainly scientific opposition and the attacks on him were far, far less fierce than those against followers of Galileo and Copernicus.

On Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the attack of the kick drum loop is fierce, while the sub-bass synth part underneath it lacks the push it has on systems with heavier low - enOn Jay - Z and Kanye West's «No Church in the Wild,» the attack of the kick drum loop is fierce, while the sub-bass synth part underneath it lacks the push it has on systems with heavier low - enon systems with heavier low - end.