Example sentences of "launched a [adj] attack " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mandeville just muttered a curse and Southgate would have launched a vitriolic attack upon the abbey if Sir Edmund had not told him to shut up and drink his wine . |
| 2 | Taylor refused to agree to his troops being disarmed while they remained under attack from the United Liberation Movement for Democracy in Liberia ( ULIMO — a coalition of supporters of former President Samuel Doe , reportedly based in Sierra Leone ) , which had launched a renewed attack on the NPFL as the Geneva talks began . |
| 3 | Pakistan 's official APP news agency reported on July 26 that separatist guerrillas of the Hezb-ul-Mujahedeen group had recently launched a devastating attack on an Indian troop convoy . |
| 4 | The British had launched a powerful attack , and first Mersa Matruh ( which Mussolini had planned to enter in triumph ) fell , then Bardia and Tobruk . |
| 5 | THE Church of Scotland has launched a blistering attack on Conservative social and economic policies , describing them as unacceptable in a civilised society and accusing the Chancellor , Mr Lamont , of expressing ‘ hollow and cynical ’ views . |
| 6 | FORMER Irish international Eamon Dunphy has launched a blistering attack on Graham Taylor — and gone to war against a host of other top football personalities . |
| 7 | Manuilski , on behalf of the Party , indicted the Ukrainian Bolsheviks for excluding Ukrainian participation from the government , for behaving like a typically colonial regime ( at the 8th Party Congress Lenin had launched a scathing attack on Great Russian chauvinism in the Ukrainian regional section ) . |
| 8 | MORRISSEY has launched a scathing attack on former pal Vic Reeves . |
| 9 | LABOUR MP Donald Dewar has launched a scathing attack on the Government 's planned tax increases . |
| 10 | The selectivity of the Government 's approach is again illuminated by once again comparing the treatment handed out to those at the bottom of the social hierarchy , where the Government has launched a determined attack on what it calls the ‘ dependency culture ’ . |
| 11 | PETER Gabriel has launched an amazing attack on former rock pals Genesis . |