Example sentences of "attack on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yet it is much more than an attack on the policies of a given minister . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ There has been a number of close calls this year like the recent UFF attack on the bookmakers in North Belfast , ’ said a detective . |
| 6 | All the evidence shows that Anselm would have resisted this development with all his power as an attack on the rights of Canterbury . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He criticized the French war , and joined the attack on the members of the cabal . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The other approach worked with a scathing moral and religious attack on the concepts of hygiene and sanitation embedded in the legislation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was surprised by the hon. Gentleman 's attack on the standards of the work of some of the regulators . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | But first this lunchtime , Prince Charles has chosen Glasgow to launch an outspoken attack on the evils of urban deprivation and poverty . |
| 22 | During the meal Elisa was able to find out what had happened to her immediately after the attack on the steps of the church . |
| 23 | Lloyd George defended them by an aggressive verbal attack on the privileges of landowners : |
| 24 | Finally , under the Thatcher Government , there has been a sustained ideological and political attack on the pillars of public service broadcasting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only one member of the feudal class , Sir Robert Knolles , is reported as playing a major part in the attack on the rebels in London , although the earl of Suffolk and Bishop Despenser of Norwich were prominent in the repression in East Anglia . |
| 28 | It was a multi-pronged attack on the Palestinians in Lebanon . |