Example sentences of "come under [adj] attack " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Autonomous Region of South Ossetia continued to come under heavy attack from Georgian forces sited outside its capital , Tskhinvali , which was cut off from aid ; there were reports of hostage-taking . |
| 2 | As Laqueur says ‘ By 1800 this view , like that linking female orgasm to conception , had come under devastating attack . ’ |
| 3 | In Iran Rafsanjani had come under strong attack from Khomeini supporters who accused him of siding with America by accepting arms from the Great Satan and helping to get some of their hostages released . |
| 4 | Clauses seeking to exclude liability , especially in standard form contracts , have come under strong attack from the judges in recent years . |
| 5 | CHINA 'S ousted Communist Party leader , Zhao Ziyang , has come under renewed attack in the official media , amid hints of a power struggle in the Chinese leadership . |
| 6 | Explain why the Keynesian model has come under increasing attack in recent years . |
| 7 | This emphasis on an ‘ English ’ tradition has come under continuous attack during the last twenty years or so ; during their undergraduate training many young teachers of English will have discussed the assumptions that underlie such concern for our cultural heritage . |
| 8 | Since the mid-1960s Walcott 's views have come under fierce attack . |
| 9 | Modern methods of livestock farming have come under severe attack since the 1989 outbreak of salmonella . |
| 10 | This interpretation has come under severe attack from Marxists and non-Marxists in the 1970s . |
| 11 | The lofty idea that India could endure as a secular democracy of diverse peoples had come under open attack from the Hindu chauvinists of the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) . |
| 12 | After eighteen months of the new type of service , it came under strong attack , first in the Press and second from concerned professional observers . |
| 13 | The original Bill came under strong attack and fell when John Major called an April election . |
| 14 | The sentence came under immediate attack , with the girl 's mother saying she wanted the case reviewed , and child care experts saying the judge 's remarks were ‘ totally unacceptable . ’ |
| 15 | Now this idea came under tremendous attack because the Church of Luther 's day thought that he was denying good works and asserting personal experience . |
| 16 | While Mexico 's political weakness was excused and its economy helped out by the US , Brazil 's relationship with Washington steadily deteriorated and its policies came under American attack . |
| 17 | Internal Affairs Minister Ziedonis Cevers and Foreign Affairs Minister Janis Jurkans also came under particular attack from the Satversme faction , and on Oct. 27 Jurkans resigned , saying that he had been prompted by his narrow survival of the vote of no confidence ( with a tied vote of 51 for and against ) . |
| 18 | On Oct. 17 , Vukovar came under heavy attack , and on Oct. 20 a relief convoy organized by Médecins sans Frontières evacuated 109 wounded from the city . |
| 19 | FRANCE and Germany pledged yesterday to defend the French franc if it came under further attack from speculators , but they dismissed suggestions that they might link their two currencies in a mini monetary union . |
| 20 | THE BANK of England yesterday spent a reported $1bn after the pound came under sustained attack once it became clear that an increase in West German interest rates today is almost certain . |
| 21 | The regimes of both units came under considerable attack from the interviewees . |
| 22 | The police more often came under physical attack and began to respond with a steadily escalating counter-violence . |
| 23 | too , found themselves split after their unexpected defeat in 1929 , and Baldwin 's leadership came under severe attack from no fewer than four different directions . |
| 24 | Last week homes and camps in the south came under military attack from pro-government forces from the North . |
| 25 | If the window itself came under direct attack , however , their chances would be poor , to say the least . |
| 26 | As a consequence , following Henry VIII 's break with Rome and more particularly after the accession of the Protestant Edward VI , the traditional beliefs and devotional practices of the English laity came under fierce attack from the reformers . |
| 27 | The government was blamed and its tariff and trade policies came under fierce attack . |
| 28 | In the early Fifties he passed through a difficult period when his directorship came under fierce attack from some art critics , none fiercer than the collector and famous critic of the Modern movement , Douglas Cooper . |
| 29 | The conference 's failure to set limits came under fierce attack from environmentalists . |
| 30 | THE GOVERNMENT 's handling of the Maastricht bill came under fierce attack yesterday when it emerged that the Prime Minister has taken legal advice on whether he could by-pass Parliament . |