Sentences with phrase «when assailed»

I think you revealed your politically driven agenda quite nakedly when you assailed the United Nations for its role in climate and energy policy.

There was, for instance, Bill Mish, general manager of the Doubletree Hotel Chattanooga (where I hadn't stayed), who no doubt thought he'd scaled the heights of wit when he assailed my domicile, telling Pare, «Not everybody likes the smell of corned beef wafting through the air.»

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

Not exact matches

If, when attempting to browse the Internet over the past few years, you've been assailed by ads featuring a whitening product to restore yellowing teeth, or an acai berry product to deflate bloated bellies, chances are they could be traced back to the young man in Sherwood Park.

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.»

In Luke the house is a palace, which the owner guards in full armor; he can be stripped of his armor and robbed only «when one stronger than he assails him.»

I'm sure that Glenn Beck only knows anything about religiosity when he is drunk or snorting cocaine and that Sarah Palin pretends to be a Christian when she is assailing gays, Immigrants and Liberals.

When punished, they rejoice as if quickened into life; they are assailed by the Jews as foreigners, and are persecuted by the Greeks; yet those who hate them are unable to assign any reason for their hatred.»

When evildoers assail me to devour my flesh — my adversaries and foes — they shall stumble and fall.

Though there are many moments of scepticism as matters arise, and the dark nights of the soul that seem to assail almost everyone visit me too, I have never had anything remotely resembling a lapse, nor a sense of forsakenness, even when I was unjustly indicted, convicted, and imprisoned, in a country I formerly much admired.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, in a speech to New York's delegates, assailed Hillary Clinton for her husband's extramarital affairs when he was President in the 1990s, saying Hillary tried to shut the women up.

After weeks of assailing reporters and critics in diligent defense of their boss, President Trump's team has been uncharacteristically muted this week when pressed about his explosive — and so far proof - free — Twitter posts accusing former President Barack Obama of tapping phones in Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign.

When the Republican refused to give the PBA the raises they sought, union leaders assailed Mr. Giuliani as a cheapskate — the Republican mayor was the brunt of a «zeros for heroes» campaign, and knew that when he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsemWhen the Republican refused to give the PBA the raises they sought, union leaders assailed Mr. Giuliani as a cheapskate — the Republican mayor was the brunt of a «zeros for heroes» campaign, and knew that when he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsemwhen he ran for president a decade later, the PBA wouldn't dare lend their endorsement.

In turn, Gillibrand spokesperson assailed Malpass for his role as the chief economist at Bear Stearns when the investment bank collapsed.

In October 2014, the Federal Trade Commission took its first law enforcement action against sexbots when it fined JDI Dating, a UK - based owner of 18 dating sites including flirtcrowd.com and findmelove.com, $ 616,000 for assailing members with phony profiles.

Meanwhile, back to Polisse: for over two hours, Maïwenn's third feature film assails us with such unpleasantries as a father accused of raping his own daughter (when he tires of sodomizing his wife) and a gymnastics coach who gets a little too close for comfort with one of his young athletes.

The smell had assailed his nostrils when he first entered, but now he could smell the bed.

The rich, earthy smell of cigars assails you when you step off the plane as portly airport officials smoke Cuba's finest.

Her experience and observation was that when she recommended stricter standards, she was first ignored and then assailed.

Congratulations (and when I say that, I suspect these results and their conclusions will be very difficult to assail).

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.

Even the president is in on the game, assailing judges when they don't rule his way (a storied American tradition dating back to at least FDR).

Perhaps I should have written it earlier, when the defendant first started to assail the integrity of various judicial officers who could not defend themselves but I did not want to interject commentary into a process that the defendant was successfully hijacking, nor did I want to give credence to his baseless attacks on the integrity of those judges.

According to Dr. Sue Johnson, when this person is unavailable and unresponsive, we are assailed by a tsunami of emotions — sadness, anger, hurt and above all, fear.