Example sentences of "attack on [noun] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hartlepool MP Ted Leadbitter has responded to an attack on Hartlepool 's image in America 's leader business newspaper The Wall Street Journal by writing an angry letter to its editor . |
| 2 | The third issue of The Saturday Review , on 17th November , 1855 , carried a vigorous attack on Pennethorne 's architecture . |
| 3 | In other words , in the contrast between a humanities and a science and technological education , there was an underlying gulf in the conceptions of what a higher education stood for ; and it was Snow 's failure to recognize that that lay at the heart of Leavis ' attack on Snow 's association of the two cultures . ’ |
| 4 | She looks in some detail at the process by which the counter-revolutionary attack on women 's liberation took place . |
| 5 | We must continue to campaign on this issue and support taking legal action in Europe against the attack on women 's pay . |
| 6 | In the second , the attack on Florio 's character is dropped , and the man is now called Philander , a possible borrowing from Aphra Behn . |
| 7 | Vauxcelles 's attack on Braque 's first Cubist paintings serves to emphasize the new and radical use to which he had put his studies of Cézanne , for in 1908 Cézanne had already been an important influence on advanced painting for some time . |
| 8 | Although they constitute a thorough attack on Descartes 's rationalism , Gassendi 's empiricism is developed elsewhere . |
| 9 | These were the years of the anti-fascist movement , the Japanese attack on Britain 's Asian empire , the British retreat and the Bengal famine during which two million people died . |
| 10 | The princess coupled her criticism with a veiled attack on Britain 's multi-million-pound tobacco industry . |
| 11 | The prime target was Venezuela , whose president Betancourt , convinced that the Cuban revolution posed a threat to his own model of promoting economic and social change within the framework of institutionalised democracy , had personally overruled the objections of his Foreign Minister to signing the OAS August 1960 Declaration of San José ( a condemnation of all interference in the Americas by non-American states , that is , a watered-down attack on Cuba 's ties with the Soviet Union ) ( Martz and Myers , p. 339 ) . |
| 12 | Most notably , Greek Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras made a thinly veiled attack on Albania 's lack of political , economic and religious freedoms . |
| 13 | On Nov. 3 Michael Heseltine , who had resigned as Secretary of State for Defence in January 1986 over the Westland affair and in particular the anticipated consequences for intra-European co-operation [ see pp. 34192-96 ] , sent an open letter to his Conservative Association chairman containing a severe attack on Thatcher 's policies and style . |
| 14 | It was only when negotiations with Parnell failed to produce a compromise that he led the clerical attack on Parnell 's leadership . |
| 15 | He grins briefly , fiddling with his food , before he launches a verbal attack on Oxford 's much-maligned university students . |
| 16 | Then at about three o'clock a fleet of barges armed with cannon and muskets prepared for a sham attack on Pocklington 's Island . |
| 17 | ( In 1981 Israel had launched a surprise air attack on Iraq 's Osirak nuclear reactor site — see p. 31908 . ) |
| 18 | This appears to have been the conclusion reached by the Israeli government when it launched its air attack on Iraq 's French-built research-scale Osiris reactor at Tuweithah near Ctesiphon in June 1981 . |
| 19 | But even the theme of agricultural distress is subordinate to the attack on Godwin 's belief that property is evil . |
| 20 | Mr De Benedetti 's testimony amounted to a scathing attack on Italy 's political establishment and what he describes as the ‘ climate of extortion ’ imposed by politicians in order to wring bribes out of businesses trying to supply the public sector . |
| 21 | But their primary thrust constituted an attack on Dicey 's twin principles of parliamentary sovereignty and the rule of law . |
| 22 | Presidential debates — Bush attack on Clinton 's character |
| 23 | The left wing of General von Bulow 's Second Army mounted a bayonet attack on Foch 's forces at dawn on 5 September , capturing the French outposts and driving back their advance units . |
| 24 | For Althusser both history and the subject are equally decentred : his attack on Sartre 's claims for a unitary history ( however complex its textual elaboration may have proved to be ) was therefore accompanied by a critique of the notion of the unitary human subject that constitutes it . |
| 25 | One is the attack on people 's confidence in their own abilities by politically-motivated assessment systems . |
| 26 | Although undoubtedly popular with a large section of the electorate , the scheme also provided his rivals within the ruling Janata Dal Party with the necessary ammunition to launch an attack on Singh 's leadership . |
| 27 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Employment , is planning to couple announcements about further trade union legislation in the next session of Parliament with an attack on Labour 's plans for restoring rights to trade unions , including the right to carry out a form of secondary , ‘ sympathy' action . |
| 28 | Among the bombings was an attack on Northwest 's Danish office in Copenhagen which killed one person and injured 20 others . |
| 29 | The now familiar formula — seeking ‘ new forms and methods of management ’ — a coded attack on Brezhnev 's ‘ stability of cadres ’ , means that the old are to a replaced by the young , the incompetent by the competent ; it also signifies departures from outmoded routines and the unsettling of vested interests . |
| 30 | The announcement of the deal in the ballroom of the Statistics Office in Budapest was temporarily hijacked by the European Community 's ambassador to Hungary , Hans Beck , who used the occasion to dish out European Community tie pins , lecture the local press on the absence of a ‘ Hungarian Way ’ , and launch a fierce attack on Hungary 's decision to retaliate with tit-for-tat measures against an import ban on meat products introduced by the European Community two weeks ago following the discovery of foot and mouth disease in Italy . |