Sentences with phrase «vicious attack on»

If you, or a covered traveling companion, are the victim of a vicious attack on your trip, you may well want to end your trip and return home.

In this short reply to Judge Posner's sharp - tongued criticism of her «pure» writing style, Judge Wald confronts him for his vicious attack on her.

Despite using purist notions of abstract form and color that date back to 1950s art critic Clement Greenberg's domineering brand of New York School formalism, Lawson fashions nothing short of a vicious attack on photography's «objective eye» via these modestly sized canvases.

Travis» vicious attack on a guest at his owners» Connecticut home left the victim with catastrophic injuries (at press time, it was not clear whether she would survive), and the chimp was ultimately shot and killed by responding police officers.

Call it devastating, draconian or simply a vicious attack on Connecticut's children, parents, educators and public schools, the governor who has consistently worked to undermine and privatize public education, since taking office in 2011, has now proposed a new state budget that destroys Connecticut's already failing constitutional requirement to adequately fund its public schools.

Means» Takeover proposal is a vicious attack on Milwaukee Public Schools.

But I'm friendly with Kevin, and I'm friends with Diane, so I was disappointed that, respectful tone aside, Carey nonetheless pursues a vicious attack on Diane's personal integrity, hinting that her criticism of Joel Klein in particular and school reform in general was sparked by Klein's decision not to hire her long - time partner.

The film centres on an entire family get together with The Davisons that turns spectacularly sour when three masked and mysterious invaders launch a vicious attack on their remote location.

Shallow Hal is an often vicious attack on people with weight problems, deformities and disfigurements that unbelievably tries to pass itself off as a light and sweet romantic comedy.

But megalomaniacal drug lord Poppy (Julianne Moore) and her part - cyborg henchman Charlie (Edward Holcroft) launch a vicious attack on Kingsman bases, leaving Eggsy and his colleague Merlin (Mark Strong) on their own.

But don't get me wrong, after that fairly vicious attack on the bodybuilding supplement industry, I'm actually not saying that all supplements are completely useless - for example, high - potency multi - vitamin / mineral tablets are what I'd classify as a «good» supplement.

When scientists saw a particularly vicious attack on a captive elephant — and the elephant's resulting bee phobia — they thought of using bees to mark certain areas as pachyderm - free.

That changed abruptly in 1998, when mountain pine and western pine beetles began a vicious attack on evergreens from British Columbia to Baja California.

At 1 p.m. Monday at City Hal, the correction officers union will hold a press conference «following the vicious attack on a correction officer by two Rikers inmates.»

A 24 - year - old man has been indicted in connection with a vicious attack on a 61 - year - old woman near Sara D. Roosevelt Park last month.

She left with a vicious attack on Brown's style hours after she had given a public display of loyalty.

Yesterday, a snarling Alan Milburn joined the assault on Kennedy with a staggeringly vicious attack on the Liberal Democrat leader's «political correctness».

District Attorney Zugibe said, «In a violent rage, the defendant unleashed a vicious attack on an innocent man looking to de-escalate an argument and protect his mother.

And never did I think that the Liberal Democrats would ever collude in mounting such a vicious attack on the most vulnerable people in our society as they have done with the bedroom tax.

CCTV footage exists to enable firm action to be taken against the hoodlums who desecrated the seat of government with that vicious attack on the hard - working police officer.

It is unlikely Van Dijk will ever put on the red and white of Southampton again, after the centre - back launched a vicious attack on the club's bosses in a strongly - worded statement, as per the Express.

You interviewed a lot of women, you interviewed Sheryl and others, and obviously you talked to Brianna Wu around Gamergate, because that was to me the most vicious attacks on women that I've seen at all.

, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen took this strategy to a new level, seamlessly weaving together vicious attacks on the Pope and blatant anti-Catholicism (see Rychlak's reply to Goldhagen in FT, June / July 2002).

The editorial cartoons, the opinion pieces, the vicious attacks on his person and reputation, the disinformation and twisting of facts» all these abuses against responsible press freedom have been repugnant.

Incidentally, I did not know that Okudzeto Ablakwa had written an earlier article titled: «'' On Developments in Kenya And Why The Vicious Attacks on Former President John Mahama Are Most Unfair» published on Modern Ghana on 4th September 2017, defending his mentor.

Colorado has seen vicious attacks on pro-reform school boards the past four years, with anti-reform advocates resorting to vulgarities, obscene gestures, and physical intimidation.

This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the west and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies.

The news that author Lauren Howard was pulling the release of her debut novel over this kind of mob - mentality after she was virtually brutalized by some members of the Goodreads community resulted in an outpouring of support from authors and readers alike; had the news of the vicious attacks on her and on her book not been shared so readily — as the Beihang study indicates — many online community members may have never even heard of Howard or her novel.

, whilst the Chain Shifts allow you to unleash more vicious attacks on your opponent.

In 1794 Richard Payne Knight and Uvedale Price simultaneously published vicious attacks on the «meagre genius of the bare and bald», criticising his smooth, serpentine curves as bland and unnatural and championing rugged and intricate designs, composed according to «picturesque» principles of landscape painting.

But listeners will be directed to a website which will be presumably much less reticent on such matters, if the Friends website at the time of the 2006 election, with its vicious attacks on Liberal environment minister Stephane Dion, is anything to go by.

They provide rich examples of conspiracy theories, vicious attacks on climate scientists and technical discussions on climate science.»

Not exact matches

Very calm and calculated with a big focus on open and fair trade with China, the coming North Korea meeting and, of course, the vicious gas attack in Syria.

@GodPot: since you don't bother to actually research anything, you just watch libtard news, you don't realize that in most states, whites are a minority behind hispanics and blacks, and that both groups are vicious in their attacks on whites mainly, and then each other.

Ibrahim Mahama has been on the receiving end of vicious attacks and intense criticism especially from members of the New Patriotic Party and the general public.

In its email appeals for money, the campaign accused the Clinton campaign of making «vicious and coordinated attacks» on Sanders's health - care plan, which calls for a government - run system.

I have read with utter shock and dismay a vicious and reckless attack on Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa written by Occupy Ghana.

Unusual things with Trump's presidency include the fact that some positions are still unfilled, sackings occurred on dubious grounds, sackings of recently hired staff occurred, vicious tensions have been occurring within the White House since the beginning, and vicious attacks by Trump himself are occurring on some of his own staff.

It was introduced in recognition of National Crime Victims» Rights Week in April as a result of vicious hate crimes, including this year's bias attacks against five elderly Asian Americans in Manhattan and a Mexican man on Staten Island, and last year's vicious beating of gay College Point resident Jack Price.

Mr Khan - favourite to beat Tory candidate Zac Goldsmith in Thursday's London Mayoral Poll - also said he had real fears British Muslim's would be put off pursuing careers in politics after witnessing the vicious nature of the attacks on him.

Vince Cable finds himself on the receiving end of vicious attacks from Nick Clegg loyalists led by Menzies Campbell.

Labour hearts should swell at the sight, as increasingly vicious blue on blue attacks hand them enough ammunition to fill every campaign poster and party election broadcast for the next four years.

Mustapha Hamid, then spokesperson of candidate Akufo - Addo was the marksman of the NPP that led all the vicious and scathing attacks on his fellow Northern brother, John Mahama, to ensure the party won last year's election.

Ghana's Foreign Affairs Minister Ms Hanna Tetteh had earlier stated that the «vicious attacks» were unfortunate, since the former NCCE boss is a lawyer and a professional capable of getting the EC Chair job on merit.

■ A senior Tory backbencher called on No10 to stop the vicious personal attacks on Brexit campaigners;

But NYCC executive director Jonathan Westin called the alleged threats by Cuomo a «vicious and indefensible» attack on «communities of color and working people in our state.

He first won his seat for Labour in the 1997 general election, having contested the predecessor Littleborough and Saddleworth seat at a by - election in 1995, [7] which was marked by Labour's particularly vicious and personal campaign, attacking the Liberal Democrat candidate, Chris Davies, as «high on tax and soft on drugs».

Part of the reason support for Ling - Cohan was so fervent is because the vaunted panel review process was so flawed and anonymous attacks on her in the press were so vicious, starting in the New York Post but repeated uncritically by other outlets, requoting the Post «source» — allegedly from the panel but possibly a self - interested operative for another judicial candidate — who called her «slow» and «lazy,» when even a cursory check of court records shows her output to be above average.

When the Satan's Sinners, a vicious biker gang, attack a bride and groom on their wedding day, they get a fight they never imagined.

The narrative's shift into its comparatively uneventful midsection, which mostly follows the protagonists as they walk through the Shimmer and make interesting / horrifying discoveries, suffers from a somewhat hit - and - miss feel compounded by an overlong running time (ie portions of the second act could've used some trimming), with the movie benefiting substantially from a continuing emphasis on sequences of a thoroughly engrossing nature (eg the crew is attacked by a vicious hybrid creature).