Example sentences of "attack on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept. 18 security forces claimed to have killed 70 guerrillas as they staged an abortive attack on a police garrison to free prisoners held in the El Sepa prison colony situated in Loreto department in the north-east Amazonian region . |
| 2 | A further 40 Sendero guerrillas were said to have been killed for the loss of three policemen dead and 20 wounded on Sept. 27 during an attack on a police post in Nuevo Progreso , San Martin department in the Upper Huallaga valley , the country 's major cocaine producing area , a Sendero stronghold . |
| 3 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 4 | On March 7 , Colombian television reported that five policeman had been killed in an FARC attack on a police garrison in El Retorno in the San José del Guaviare municipality . |
| 5 | At end-January four policemen and two re-compas were killed in an attack on a police station . |
| 6 | The fighting had erupted after the rebels had launched an attack on a police post at Bang Wang Nua , in the Sanakham district of Vientiane province . |
| 7 | Four members of the IRA were shot dead by soldiers on Feb. 16 after an attack on a police station at Coalisland ; another two men were injured . |
| 8 | NO-one was hurt when terrorists launched a mortar bomb attack on a police and Army station at Crossmaglen , in South Armagh . |
| 9 | Det Chief Insp John Stoddart described the brick-throwing as a callous , premeditated attack on a police officer who was acting in the public 's interest . |
| 10 | The attack on the slums proved a very significant event in post-war urban planning . |
| 11 | Thus his Declaration of Reasons for Invading focused on the violations of the Test Act , the creation of the Commission for Ecclesiastical Causes , the suspension of the Bishop of London , the affair of Magdalen College , the dispensing and suspending powers , and the attack on the corporations in 1687 – 8 . |
| 12 | The British Medical Association led an attack on the eugenists for confusing undesirable behaviour with mental deficiency and for advocating sterilisation of the feeble-minded . |
| 13 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 14 | Less than a week after the Jeddah agreement on over-production had been reached , Iraq launched a concerted , public attack on the policies of Kuwait and the UAE . |
| 15 | ‘ There has been a number of close calls this year like the recent UFF attack on the bookmakers in North Belfast , ’ said a detective . |
| 16 | This point did not , however , form part of the attack on the pleadings below and does not have to be decided on this appeal . |
| 17 | All the evidence shows that Anselm would have resisted this development with all his power as an attack on the rights of Canterbury . |
| 18 | Although the attack on the forms of classic nineteenth-century fiction was pursued in the interests of modernity , it is evident from the defences provided by the nouveaux romanciers that they were in fact relying to a considerable extent on a revised concept of realism . |
| 19 | The attack on the norms of Classic realism was of course aided and abetted by the emerging school of structuralist critics , most notably Roland Barthes , who , in Le degré zéro de l'écriture ( 1953 ) and in Essais Critiques ( 1964 ) , espoused the efforts of the nouveau roman ( or , more exactly , of Robbe-Grillet ) in overturning the Balzacian bourgeois novel and its attendant retrograde ideology . |
| 20 | Carr used these three foundation stones to construct an attack on the utopians , contending that their faith in a timeless moral code merely reflected the specific interests of one set of satisfied powers after the First World War . |
| 21 | The Asian countries , meeting in Bangkok a month ago , mobilised a vigorous attack on the values that they think are being imposed on them . |
| 22 | But today Education Secretary John Patten launched a viscious attack on the students ' union . |
| 23 | He criticized the French war , and joined the attack on the members of the cabal . |
| 24 | There is an attack on the benefits and commissions . |
| 25 | In 1951 Burgess and Maclean fled to Moscow ; Aneurin Bevan and Harold Wilson resigned from the Labour government in protest at the imposition of charges within the National Health Service , which they saw as an attack on the principles of the Welfare State . |
| 26 | Mr Major yesterday joined in the attack on the Germans . |
| 27 | The other approach worked with a scathing moral and religious attack on the concepts of hygiene and sanitation embedded in the legislation . |
| 28 | Having walked up and down the river there seemed a simple choice between bleak in the top section and an all out feeder attack on the others . |
| 29 | While I concur with much of Bürger 's ( 1984 , p. 57 ) analyses , I do not accept his claim that the ‘ failure ’ of this historical avant-garde came about because any radical attack on the institutions of art was impossible in bourgeois society . |
| 30 | It was a far-reaching and radical attack on the powers of the legitimately established authority , not only of those who ruled kingdoms but also of those who ruled localities . |