Example sentences of "an attack on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ] . |
| 3 | At end-January four policemen and two re-compas were killed in an attack on a police station . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 8 | In 1669 he participated in the pamphlet war between physicians and apothecaries by publishing A Discourse , wherein The Interest of the Patient in Reference to Physick and Physicians is soberly debated ; this combined an attack on the apothecaries with a vindication of the role of an experimentally active physician which he exemplified . |
| 9 | All the evidence shows that Anselm would have resisted this development with all his power as an attack on the rights of Canterbury . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There is an attack on the benefits and commissions . |
| 13 | Only an attack on the nuts and bolts of belief — such as denying the existence of Christ — merits this punishment . |
| 14 | Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) on March 18 cited reports that Sudanese troops had been gathering , in preparation for an attack on the rebels in Sudan , at the town of Gambella , on the Ethiopian side of the border . |
| 15 | The NPFL reportedly launched an attack on the outskirts of the city in the early hours of Oct. 15 , deploying mortars and machine guns in the heaviest fighting in Monrovia for two years . |
| 16 | But what is needed to achieve an attack on the causes of poverty , a democratic will in the rich countries to let their political leaders spend more on fighting want , seems further off than ever . |
| 17 | It included a large expedition to France in 1522 , an attack on the Scots and a major invasion of France in 1523 , and an abortive plan for a third French campaign after the capture of Francis I at Pavia in 1525 . |
| 18 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |