Example sentences of "[adj] attack on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the end , the Know Nothings , led by Senator Jesse Helms , managed to force Washington 's Corcoran Gallery to cancel a 150-picture Mapplethorpe retrospective and started a full-scale attack on the kinds of artistic projects which the National Endowment of the Arts ( no radical force ) reluctantly and sparingly backed . |
| 3 | But it was 6 September before all the Allied left-wing armies could turn about and launch a full-scale attack on the invaders . |
| 4 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 5 | For example , in Parkia ( discussed above ) , the sequential use of pollinators versus the sequential susceptibility to bruchid attack on the seeds . |
| 6 | Ashley made a frantic attack on the buttons again . |
| 7 | The French were preparing a great attack on the heights of the Aisne for the end of the month , and so it was , he claimed , essential to keep the Germans occupied in Flanders . |
| 8 | But today Education Secretary John Patten launched a viscious attack on the students ' union . |
| 9 | The Asian countries , meeting in Bangkok a month ago , mobilised a vigorous attack on the values that they think are being imposed on them . |
| 10 | By piercing hundreds of news-cuttings with barbed-wire , Jarman intends his most wounding attack on the tabloids ' attitude to homosexuality . |
| 11 | Finally , under the Thatcher Government , there has been a sustained ideological and political attack on the pillars of public service broadcasting . |
| 12 | During the afternoon meeting , several breaks were called to allow discussions between the various groupings to examine the three motions on the table : a strong attack on the MPs , calling on the executive not to endorse their actions ; a motion regretting their action , and the successful statement welcoming the concession wrung out of the Westminster system and pledging support for the parliamentary group . |
| 13 | It was a multi-pronged attack on the Palestinians in Lebanon . |
| 14 | Smart-liveried , amply motor-homed , luxurious to a degree , fully equipped with the best that money could buy in research and development , McLaren made a thoroughly businesslike and professional attack on the championships . |
| 15 | Model making Instead of being a showcase of new modelling talent and the supposed depth of the new models , ‘ London Girls ’ ( FACE 45 ) turns into an unbelievably petty and hateful attack on the supermodels themselves . |
| 16 | And even after that high point of drama and inspiration had passed , and the French had launched their successful attack on the Castalians , Protestantism survived in pockets throughout the kingdom ; it was a fallow period , but that in itself would prepare the ground for more spectacular growth . |
| 17 | BEFORE the two-pronged Antipodean attack on the Springboks few South Africans were prepared to anticipate a plummeting fall from grace . |
| 18 | But first this lunchtime , Prince Charles has chosen Glasgow to launch an outspoken attack on the evils of urban deprivation and poverty . |
| 19 | Although Carr produced the most sustained attack on the assumptions of Idealism , it was Hans Morgenthau who did most to popularize the new approach of Realism . |
| 20 | The other approach worked with a scathing moral and religious attack on the concepts of hygiene and sanitation embedded in the legislation . |
| 21 | After a lot of ranting and raving at his lack of success so far , he determines to launch an all-out attack on the guerrillas . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The International Herald Tribune of Oct. 30 reported that documents supplied to the court handling the case of the murdered Jesuits showed that Maj. Eric Buckland , a US military adviser , and others had had prior knowledge of the proposed attack on the Jesuits . |