Sentences with phrase «once assailed»

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.»
State of Politics said: The Weekend That Was: Peter Elkind says Spitzer is guilty of the same hubris for which he once assailed his Wall S... http://bit.ly/aNPyeQ -LSB-...]
My friend, who considers himself interestingly irreligious, was once assailing religion with considerable dash and spirit.

Not exact matches

The height of absurdity came when Hitchens assailed Mother Teresa for allegedly giving her heart to greater Albania, «a cause that was once smiled upon by Pope Pius IX and his friend Benito Mussolini.»
Cuomo once again, however, assailed the passage of a tax bill last month that caps state and local tax deductions at $ 10,000.
All of these bad decisions are made easier when all of the actually sensible people, or people who know anything about the subject at all, are being assailed on all sides, and aren't necessarily keen to find the time to explain, once again, that yes, the world is warming.
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