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More young women are becoming victims of sexual abuse and assault each day.
He arrested the claimant on suspicion of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and when cautioned the claimant made no reply.
It was small, light weight, 5.7mm, not quite an assault rifle but it packed a punch.
Military action, especially a Nato assault, must be the option of last resort.
Now the choice is go to trial on a felony assault charge and hope for an acquittal or plead guilty to a misdemeanor.
The deliberate assault on the weak is not the spirit of Socialism but of Fascism.
A student fell to his knees and prayed after a jury cleared him on attempted rape and indecent assault charges.
The Pontypool fighter followed up with a quick-fire, accurate assault until Paisley's corner mercifully threw in the towel.
Tribal forces specialize in raids, skirmishes, and ambushes where the assault rifle, machinegun, mortar, and mine are basic weapons.
Soldiers packed tents and kits to move to new positions in readiness for the imminent assault.
You go into a bar and end up in a fight, one of the two will complain and the other will get an assault rap.
Morgan admitted four specimen counts of rape and two charges of assault causing actual bodily harm.
The Royal Navy's two new assault ships have put to sea side-by-side for the first time.
Real queue-jump specialists don hats and goggles in preparation for an assault on the lift-line.
After the position was organized, he led an assault approximately 15 yards from the final objective, when enemy fire halted the advance.
He said Simms had been reconciled with his girlfriend after the assault and there were now no problems between the two of them.
As a child and adolescent, he had numerous encounters with law enforcement for joyriding, theft, burglary, fraud, assault and battery.
His criminal record also includes armed robbery, affray, assault, theft and public order offences.
The Black Hawk is the primary helicopter for air assault, general support and aeromedical evacuation units.
The jury returned guilty verdicts on two counts of indecent assault and one of common assault.
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Police say the weapon used in the shootings was likely an assault rifle or a hunting rifle, accurate up to 650 meters.
We had already been keyed up for the June 5 assault, and now we had another day of adrenalin rush to deal with.
In fact, this world famous waterbody is bearing the brunt of this all-encompassing assault.
Original charges of indecent assault and kidnap were dropped and Atkinson was found guilty of a lesser charge of false imprisonment.
Prosecutors say he also beat another other man with the baseball bat and have charged him additionally with first-degree assault.
The assault landing thrusters begin to kick in, a loudly whine of complaint against too rapid a fall under fierce gravity.
No one on this campus wants to diminish the reality of the horrible experience of sexual assault.
The man was charged with serious assault and taken into custody at the police watch-house.
The final assault jumped off at 1515 from a crossroads 500 yards south of Clochimont.
Soldiers and police, armed with assault rifles, shields and sticks, rushed forward and weighed into the melee.
Before the attack, supporting elements from the unit recon platoons evaluated the enemy situation and provided guides for the assault.
What's more, the alleged shooter reportedly is the wife of one of the inmates, who was serving 35 years for aggravated robbery and assault.
Currently families who compel their children to marry can be charged only with offences such as assault or kidnap.
If nothing else, the fact that some men assault women lowers our standards for acceptable behavior.
But whatever means they find to perpetrate this assault they must be opposed for the warmongers they are.
The suspects were arrested and charged with aggravated robbery, felonious assault and theft.
The woman and a 30-year-old man were arrested on charges of false imprisonment, serious assault and aiding and abetting a fugitive.
He was charged with attempted rape and assault occasioning actual bodily harm, and convicted.
The other nurse, who continues to suffer ill health arising from the near assault, has been absent from work on a number of occasions.
The 39-year-old singer was booked on a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon late on Friday.
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With Colin Montgomerie's star seemingly on the wane, the European assault on the majors will again be headed by Lee Westwood and Darren Clarke.
Critics say the bill is just the latest assault on the ongoing war on our country's middle class.
He also pleaded guilty to a charge of assault causing actual bodily harm for butting a police officer in custody after his arrest.
When a boy is sexually abused he suffers an assault on his body, his developing personality and on his manhood.
The rest of the participants reported no history of sexual abuse or assault.
The community has a role in terms of prevention of sexual abuse and assault.
There are already plenty of laws against actual rape, assault and child sexual abuse.
He has previous convictions for theft, robbery and assault causing actual bodily harm.
On Monday night, in perhaps their boldest assault to date, a small contingent attacked the base of the elite Republican Guard.
During his spring semester at Duke University, senior Lewis McLeod was expelled for committing a sexual assault.
He was in jail on aggravated assault and aggravated robbery charges.
He was an American archivist who sought to keep the American musical tradition alive even when it was under assault.
In their midst stands a soldier with the Lebanese armed forces in a red beret, sporting an assault rifle and an unblinking stare.
Luckily, Tor was prepared for this sort of assault, and has built-in defenses to protect against it.
For them, the trauma of assault can be compounded by a lack of institutional support, and even disciplinary action.
Bill Cosby is facing allegations of assault and sexual misconduct by many women.
Although Korra looks at PTSD and assault with supernatural grandiosity, fans were quick to pick up on it in some forums.
Johnson is the first cop not wearing riot gear and carrying an assault rifle to walk down Florissant in the past few days.
In America, a madman on a mission like his would no doubt have carried automatic pistols and probably an assault rifle.
McCarthy reported that at least one gunman armed with an assault rifle had fired into the court at Cornell Square Park.
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He had bought the shotgun only that weekend after deciding against an AR-15 assault rifle because of the waiting period.
No longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional American values, conservatism.
The man is believed to have been operating in the area for some time and the victim of the assault had allowed him into her home in August to read her gas meter.
By one report, the police who responded recovered 14 shell casings from an AR-15 assault rifle.
Dorner, who is believed to be armed with an assault rifle, has turned the Southland into a veritable war zone.
Every household with a male in it is allowed to have an assault weapon, no questions asked.
In less than a minute, 50 hulking men have poured out from a blockhouse wearing camouflage, black berets and webbing, and clutching assault rifles.
From this offbeat narrative experiment, Greendale weaves a story of good, simple townsfolk under assault from authoritarian governments, corporations, media and so on.
Maybe instead of mandatory health care, we should make it mandatory that each American carry at least one assault weapon?
But the next assault is just around the corner, and the band's talent for stringing out the quiet moments makes the next shower of blows rain down even harder.
Chained cpi is a more conservative way of measuring inflation and, in effect, an assault on already-retired seniors.
It makes no difference that there is no reason whatsoever for a private citizen to own an assault weapon.
The centre provides an invaluable service in Sligo, offering a safe, confidential space for survivors of child sexual abuse, rape and sexual assault.
But despite her allure, her assiduous assault on New York produced no results.
A coordinated assault on five or more junctions in the 10,500 miles of pipeline that connect the five main Saudi oilfields could cripple the industry.
Next is Wallace, who will face one count of assault and battery.
The battle against Babbitry, carried out in the 1950s through the assault on mass culture, grew more intense.
Officers took the inebriated tourists to the Pattaya police station and booked them on charges of physical assault and drunk and disorderly behavior.
The United Nations has expressed concern about the assault on bani Walid, 105 miles from Tripoli.
Ovid's imagery pulses with energy, from Salmacis the water nymph's spluttery sexual assault in a pond to Semele combusting at the sight of Jupiter naked.
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Gun control advocates have told me the assault weapons ban was intended to be a bargaining chip.
My colleagues and I are fighting not to criminalize men, but to bring the cowards who commit sexual assault to justice.
Roethlisberger was never convicted of anything and like Bryant, he settled a sexual assault claim out of court.
Australia earlier cancelled Blanc's visa over claims his tactics promote sexual assault.
It was like a constant assault, an almost stupefying catalogue of mindless racial insult and injury.
This programme contrasts the county's enthusiasm for a conservation project in Tasmania with how it reacts to subjects such as domestic violence, assault and sexual abuse.
The 28th Division was keyed up by a visit and inspection from their boss Eisenhower, certain in the knowledge that they were to be among the first to assault France.
Gardner has also been charged in the assault, with the intent to commit rape or sexual assault, of Candice Moncayo.
Had one reached out and caressed the other, would that have been an assault?
Simple assault, battery, aiding and abetting, harboring a fugitive, and also obstruction of justice took place.
All seem to acknowledge that sexual assault is a serious problem that requires campus-wide education.
American universities have come under censure for failing to adequately protect students from sexual and physical assault.
This was hardly an ad hominem assault, though West interpreted it that way.
Pounding is charged with one count each of assault, adultery, and conduct unbecoming an officer.
On Monday, Kurilla was arraigned on charges of criminal homicide and aggravated assault.
The two responding officers, Cuong Sam and Bryon Hargis, could have charged Rice with aggravated assault, a felony.
The charge against Palmer was dropped, and Rice was indicted on a higher charge of aggravated assault.
The stunt motorcyclist hero of his black-and-white video Wall of Death relentlessly dares the crash-and-burn of his trade in an assault on the frontier of centrifugal force.
Few occupations carry the unique sort of physiological assault that air-traffic control does.
Three Algerian al Qaeda members were present during the assault on the consulate.
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This hardly seems to be an atmosphere that encourages a sexual assault victim to follow through with an allegation.
The official adds that young boys, too, are not immune from sexual assault by the alp and arbakai.
Electric guitars, souped up accordions and samples of bagpipe music, the instruments were the only electrifying aspect of the assault to the senses.
Under that definition, forced kissing can certainly constitute as a form of sexual assault.
But there's a serious point here, and it extends well beyond the anguishing question of sexual assault.
From assault rifles to antiaircraft missiles, Libya is overflowing with armaments.
For his tireless assault on evolutionary biology and downsizing the deity to fit within science, I give Meyer second place.
Hundreds of rioters launched a sustained assault along the West Circular Road before a water cannon and plastic bullets were used to disperse the mob.
After a three-day, porter-assisted trek to the 9,000-foot base camp, you'll spend a day acclimatizing, and then launch a 4 a.m. assault on the craggy granite peak.
If captured, the protesters faced charges of arson, robbery, riot, machine breaking and assault.
Although due to depart with the others, James Hammett was detained in Windsor, charged with an assault, while the others left the colony.
An attacker, later identified as Nordine Amrani, aged 33, armed with grenades and an assault rifle, attacked people waiting at a bus stop.
The British suffered heavy casualties in a failed assault and were weakened by exposure and shortage of supplies in their siege lines.
The building's exterior was undamaged and this assault was too well-aimed.
It's not like we'd blasted this stuff at Tracy's pregnant belly, the way some parents assault their unborns with Mozart.
The teenager admitted the racially aggravated assault of Mary, 40, by repeatedly punching her on the head and pushing her.
Vehicles using leaded gasoline that contaminated cities' air decades ago have increased aggravated assault in urban areas, researchers say.
During the first assault of Ahriman, it is Tishtariya who purges the world from all poison and harmful animals.
McLelland had been shot multiple times with an assault rifle.
You don't need an assault weapon to protect your family or shoot a deer.
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A TEACHER who squirted his ex with a water pistol during a row was arrested and convicted of assault.
Even given the effectiveness of the ground campaign, Halberstam considers the air assault the backbreaker.
The detained men were described as being Wahhabis and their ranks included an Army officer who had supplied assault rifles and grenade launchers.
Karajah was charged with two felony counts of assault and battery.
Downworth, from Stockport, Greater Manchester, admitted one count of assault causing actual bodily harm at an earlier hearing.
Her brother pleaded guilty to one count of assault occasioning actual bodily harm on May 1 this year.
Seven of the indecent assault charges and the assault occasioning actual bodily harm allegation relate to the same man.
The 20-year-old yesterday denied a charge of racially aggravated assault occasioning actual bodily harm.
The assault was followed by the tragic and fatal mauling of a six-day-old baby, ElizaMae Mullane, by an Alaskan malamute in Wales.
The assault happened in the Duke Street and Albyn Bank Road area of Avenham at around 8pm on Saturday.
Afolake Jaja, prosecuting, said the alleged assault happened after Sansom, 55, was treated for alcohol intoxication in hospital.
But poor carl is still trudging along as if his assault never happened.
When he wasn't yukking it up over the Albert assault case, he was poking fun at the ongoing Stones tour.
The utility of anoscopy and colposcopy in the evaluation of male sexual assault victims.
They assaulted the embankment, preceding their assault with volleys from slings and spears thrown by machines.
After just four days in autismland, the mainstream world seemed like a constant sensory assault.
Admitting the assault, the husband said that he had given her a 'banjoing' but that she had asked for it.
With this assault they drive back the thin enemy line, pressing forward through the disordered enemy.
A law was eventually passed to protect innocent bystanders from assault by wastes thrown into the street.
He succeeded in marching to the Sassanid capital of Ctesiphon, but lacked adequate supplies for an assault.
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The Dauphin was crowned and continued the successful Fabian tactics of avoiding full frontal assault and exploiting logistical advantage.
When passing a Whig club, the coach came under attack from a group of men who tried to assault Pitt.
He came into conflict with Paoli, who had decided to split with France and sabotage the French assault on the Sardinian island of La Maddalena.
The assault on the position led to the capture of the city, but during it Bonaparte was wounded in the thigh.
During his scouting operations, Nelson had developed a plan to assault the French garrison of the Turks Islands.
The French were found to be heavily entrenched and after several hours Nelson called off the assault.
A British assault force landed on the island on 7 February, after which Nelson moved to intensify the blockade off Bastia.
However, Dundas merely assessed the enemy positions and then withdrew, arguing that the French were too well entrenched to risk an assault.
A large French assault at the end of November broke the allied lines, forcing a general retreat towards Genoa.
He carried out a bombardment and personally led an amphibious assault on 3 July.
The initial attempt was called off after adverse currents hampered the assault and the element of surprise was lost.
He convinced Parker to allow him to make an assault, and was given significant reinforcements.
This assault was directed along much the same route as the previous heavy cavalry attacks.
However, the assault was stopped after a few kilometres and the French forces withdrew.
Across the harbour, parliamentarians in Gosport joined in the assault, with their guns damaging St Thomas's Church.
The gatehouse contained a series of defences to make a direct assault more difficult than battering down a simple gate.
If it was necessary to seize control of a castle an army could either launch an assault or lay siege.
It was more efficient to starve the garrison out than to assault it, particularly for the most heavily defended sites.
If forced to assault a castle, there were many options available to the attackers.
In the early 1580s, he argued unsuccessfully for an assault on Spain itself.
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Blake was charged not only with assault, but with uttering seditious and treasonable expressions against the king.
The firing of a truck load of meat and two cases of assault enlived the strike of the meat wagon drivers yesterday.
This was the advance guard for Strongbow's army and was to be the springboard for an assault on Waterford.
The assault was widened by French and then further British forces in the following days.
The attack involved two corps in the main assault and two corps performing diversionary attacks at Ypres.
This was to be an amphibious assault on the western side of Malaya codenamed Operation Zipper.
The helicopter borne assault of 45 Commando was the first time helicopters were used by UK forces to lift men directly into a combat zone.
Passaro was found guilty of one count of felony assault with a dangerous weapon and three counts of misdemeanor assault.
Army managed to build and lead the Kurdish Peshmerga into an effective force and assault for the North.
The attack was repulsed using tank fire and massed artillery rockets, destroying or disabling every Iraqi tank in the assault.
Infantry The basic infantry weapon of the Royal Marines is the L85A2 assault rifle, sometimes fitted with the L123A3 underslung grenade launcher.
There were also concerns that an assault would become more dangerous if the West Side Boys moved the hostages.
The risks of Operation Barras were acknowledged by the MoD and by officers involved in the planning and the assault.
This was the main reason why VRS decided to assault Srebrenica in July 1995 and capture those responsible.
He expected that the losses would cause enemy morale to drop and the British assault to stall.
British forces were bogged down by assault rifle, mortar, machine gun, artillery fire, sniper fire, and ambushes.
The night of 13 June saw the start of the second phase of attacks, in which the momentum of the initial assault was maintained.
The incident, in July 2007, involved his assault of a pub landlord that broke the victim's cheek.
The navy will have coastal patrol squadrons, assault boat squadrons and a marine battalion.
Encouraged by women in the community, it is primarily intended to deter promiscuity and to offer protection from assault.
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Encouraged by women in the community, it is primarily intended to protect chastity, deter promiscuity, and offer protection from assault.
Encouraged and performed by women in the community, circumcision is primarily intended to deter promiscuity and to offer protection from assault.
Thus the Germans were able to avoid a direct assault on the Maginot Line by violating the neutrality of Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
During the five months before her arrival, the defenders had attempted only one offensive assault, which had ended in defeat.
The Spanish commander called for the Scots to surrender and avoid a final assault, warning that if they did not, no quarter would be given.
On June 17, the British seized the Charlestown peninsular after a costly frontal assault, leading Howe to replace Gage.
The British then launched an abortive assault on Charleston, South Carolina.
Archers appear to have been used again before and during an assault by the cavalry and infantry led by the duke.
A smoke screen had been laid down on either flank, which succeeded in drawing German fire away from the assault.
Elements of the division's pioneers joined in the assault on the heights beyond the river and aided in the capture of the position.
The second stage began on 30 October, to complete the previous stage and gain a base for the final assault on Passchendaele.
Along with your 'brethren, Get ready your scaling ladders, And your engines of onfall and assault, To attack the walls of Khung.
After the assault was publicized, France announced it would stop the atmospheric nuclear tests.
The following year, he launched an assault from Sicily against the Lombard Duchy of Benevento, which then occupied most of southern Italy.
The French had planned a seaborne assault on the North Sea coast in order to relieve expected pressure on the front in Alsace and Lorraine.
In November John retook Rochester Castle from rebel baron William d'Aubigny in a sophisticated assault.
The Allies attempted to capture bridges with an airborne assault, to open the way into Germany and liberate the northern Netherlands.
Even by then most of the infantry had not crossed, much of the success being due to the actions of just six platoons, mainly assault engineers.
The assault was crude, and Hoepner soon lost 80 out of 500 AFVs in the first attack.
The Luftwaffe subjected lines of resistance to ferocious assault, which then quickly collapsed under armoured attack.
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On 15 June, Army Group C launched Operation Tiger, a frontal assault across the Rhine and into France.
Five assault divisions of the VII Armeekorps crossed the Rhine into the Colmar area with a view to advancing to the Vosges Mountains.
Guderian considered the failure to order a timely assault on Dunkirk to be one of the major German mistakes on the Western Front.
Adolf Hitler hoped for a negotiated peace with the UK, and made no preparations for amphibious assault on Britain until the Fall of France.
The initial assault would have also included two airborne divisions and the special forces of the Brandenburg Regiment.
There is reason to believe that the Germans would not attempt to assault the city but besiege and bombard it.
The plan called for a frontal assault, without any heavy preliminary air bombardment.
They were delayed by 20 minutes and the smoke screens that should have hidden their assault had already lifted.
Brigadier William Wallace Southam brought ashore his copy of the assault plan, classified as a secret document.
These dummies led the Germans to believe an additional airborne assault had occurred.
Approximately 2,300 tanks and assault guns were committed to the battle, of which only 100 to 120 crossed the Seine at the end of the campaign.
Despite initial heavy losses in the assault phase, Allied morale remained high.
German commanders at all levels failed to react to the assault phase in a timely manner.
The Trojans are routed by the sudden onslaught, and Patroclus begins his assault by killing the Trojan hero Sarpedon.
Military gliders have been used in war to deliver assault troops, and specialised gliders have been used in atmospheric and aerodynamic research.
Orders arrived from London concerning an assault on St Lucia but the commanders decided that such an attempt was unwise given the circumstances.
The French had occupied Frankfurt and were using it as their base for operations, which Brunswick now attempted to assault.
The French were totally unprepared to resist an assault, and had been taken completely by surprise by the appearance of the British fleet.
Wolfe continued to press for a fresh assault, even though the element of surprise had now been lost, but Mordaunt was hesitant.
Faced with this ultimatum, Mordaunt decided that a further immediate assault was impossible, and agreed that the force should withdraw.
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Sutcliffe committed his second assault on the night of 5 July 1975 in Keighley.
The next day, the 115th Brigade prepared an assault to clear out the Germans.
But before he was able to bring reinforcements, Genucla fell to a combined land and fluvial assault by the Romans.
The barbarians sailed along the Black Sea coast to Tomis in Moesia Inferior, which they tried to take by assault without success.
Nerva was unharmed in this assault, but his authority was damaged beyond repair.
The cavalry surrounded the Roman troops, who were already in disarray after the failure of the first assault.
In any event, the suddenness of the assault lead them to believe they were facing a much larger host.
Odo's forces launched a surprise assault on the Umayyad forces, simultaneously from behind and from within the walls.
The Catalan, Aragonese and Occitan forces were disorganised and disintegrated under the assault of Montfort's squadrons.
The fortified cities were untaken in his advance because Yisaur was not prepared for siege assault.
Preparations for the final assault were started in the evening of 26 May and continued to the next day.
They soon identify the targets as Indonesian military aircraft and warships that initiate an assault against Dili.
By Spanish accounts, he was killed in this assault by the Mexica people, though they claim he had been killed instead by the Spanish.
Any Spanish assault would have to come through the causeways, where the Aztecs could easily attack them.
Any assault on the Inca armies overlooking the valley would have been suicidal.
The garrison survived all attacks, including an assault on September 13, 1782 that included 48 ships and 450 cannon.
The two powers colluded against Charles V, and in 1543 they even combined for a joint naval assault in the Siege of Nice.
Karacha, fueled by the loss of his sons, regrouped the native tribes and returned to assault Yermak the next day.
All trace of Lindsey's separate status had vanished before the Viking assault in the late ninth century.
His persecuted characters bleed purple prose, and he persistently confuses an assault on the nerves with a cry from the heart.
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In Scotland, one would not be charged with assault due to transferred intent, but instead assault due to recklessness.
Creating a fear of imminent battery is an assault, and also may give rise to criminal liability.
An assault is the immediate intentional creation of apprehension of another without consent or privilege.
A MAN threatened to assault his child's headteacher after she called him out of a job interview to pick the youngster up from school.
With regard to the weapons used, police confirmed that an anti-tank rocket-launcher, as well as a military-issue assault rifle were used.
Rajan Kumar, 36, needed hospital treatment after the brutal assault by the drunken yobs outside his home.
They want to speak to another youth who was with the rapist before the assault.
A man was arrested on suspicion of rearms and drugs oences, as well as assault.
But a private assault course and lawn suitable for helicopter landings is pretty extraordinary, we reckon.
Remember the assault course at the end of the Krypton factor, well that's the creche for the tiny kids of Tough Mudder participants.
Each student was given a uniform and Army ration packs and tried their hand at assault courses, patrols, command tasks and paintballing.
The instructors put recruits through gruelling assault courses and long distnace runs.
It is no secret that it was AK-47 assault rifle that helped Vietnamese fight the Americans.
Craig Brown last night vowed to regroup his side for a Scottish Cup assault after all but kissing goodbye to their top-six hopes yesterday.
A MAN was found with a knuckleduster in his pocket when police arrested him over an assault on his girlfriend.
The cost in lives, ships, and weapons of that D-day assault was awful.
Hikiji's vehicular assault that turned homicidal comes two years after another autoworker went on a deadly assault in the middle of Tokyo.
The Aztec forces managed to push back the Spanish and halt this assault on the capital with a determined and hard fought land and naval counterattack.
Valens was in Asia with his main field army, preparing for an assault on the Persians, and redirecting the army and its logistic support would have required time.
But on the day of the planned final assault, Rasul Khan surrendered.
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The EH-101 frequently is used for assault, antisubmarine warfare, search and rescue, reconnaissance, casualty evacuation and troop transportation missions.
They plan to mount their assault on the record in late 2011, driving across a dried up lakebed known as Hakskeen Pan, in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
Mr. Johnson, of Manhattan, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault as a hate crime in exchange for a sentence of 15 years in prison and five years of postrelease supervision.
This important factor, accompanied by the dynasty's eventual collapse into decadence, opened the way for Tahert's demise under the assault of the Fatimids.
On the morning of 21 August 1415, John I of Portugal led his sons and their assembled forces in a surprise assault on Ceuta, landing on Playa San Amaro.
If assailants made it past the first line of defence they would be caught in the killing ground between the inner and outer walls and have to assault the second wall.
On the morning of 21 August 1415, king John I of Portugal led his sons and their assembled forces in a surprise assault that would come to be known as the Conquest of Ceuta.
Under the leadership of the Berber general Tariq ibn Ziyad, the Muslims used Ceuta as a staging ground for an assault on Visigothic Iberian Peninsula.
Initially, the planned Overseas navy is conceived as mobile intervention force, centered in light aircraft carriers carrying Marine assault forces.
Iberian cavalry tactics involved knights approaching the enemy, throwing javelins, then withdrawing to a safe distance before commencing another assault.
Ottoman casualties are unknown but they are believed by most historians to be very heavy due to several unsuccessful Ottoman attacks made during the siege and final assault.
After the Battle of the Bulge, Allied Armies advanced into the Rhineland in preparation for a planned massive assault across the Rhine into the heart of the Reich.
The first siege, in 1643, was unsuccessful, but by 1645 Corfe was one of the last remaining royalist strongholds in Southern England and fell to a siege ending in an assault.
The ships were scuttled there in the 11th century to block a navigation channel and thus protect Roskilde, then the Danish capital, from seaborne assault.
Eastwood wrote in his request to the court, Eric James Chisum has an extensive rap sheet that includes attempted murder, burglary, assault and narcotics and weapons charges.
Wolfe advocated an immediate assault on Fort Fouras, and also a diversionary raid in the direction of nearby La Rochelle to confuse the French about the true intentions.
The group contained an unusually high amount of military equipment, including an aircraft carrier, submarines, military support ships, assault troops and military vehicles.
In part because of lessons learned in the Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942, the Allies decided not to directly assault a heavily defended French seaport in their first landing.
It included British parachute units attacking German artillery batteries on the headlands on either side of the Canadians making a frontal assault from the sea.
The paper outlined an assault on England's eastern coast between The Wash and the River Thames by troops crossing the North Sea from ports in the Low Countries.
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In the early hours of 10 May, DFS 230 gliders landed on top of the fort and unloaded assault teams that disabled the main gun cupolas with hollow charges.
The outpost did not have enough ammunition to resist a determined assault.
There is no sporting purpose on earth that should stop the United States Congress from banishing assault weapons that outgun police and cut down children.
Richards subsequently resigned shortly after the Assembly had become established in response to allegations of an assault, from which he was later cleared.
Faced with this level of defence, the division was halted and spent the following days reconnoitring the German positions preparing for an assault.
The assault rifle, a late war development incorporating many features of the rifle and submachine gun, became the standard postwar infantry weapon for most armed forces.
Washington still favored an assault on New York, but was essentially overruled when the French opted to send their fleet to their preferred target of Yorktown.
After a plan to assault the city was rejected, in early March 1776, the Americans fortified Dorchester Heights with heavy artillery captured from a raid on Fort Ticonderoga.
On 5 April, the British government dispatched a naval task force to engage the Argentine Navy and Air Force before making an amphibious assault on the islands.
This will be exposed to both mechanical irritation from the nappy and chemical assault from urine and faeces until the newly exposed surface of the glans keratinises.
The French under the Marquis de Montcalm anticipated a British assault to the east of Quebec so he ordered his soldiers to fortify the region of Beauport.
Polish GROM troops supported the amphibious assault on Umm Qasr with the British 3 Commando Brigade of the Royal Marines, and the US 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
In addition, a role was allocated to the 16th Independent Parachute Brigade, which would lead the assault on Port Said in conjunction with the Royal Marine landing.
The Normandy landings were the largest seaborne invasion in history, with nearly 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating.
Eisenhower had tentatively selected 5 June as the date for the assault.
The main French assault was launched on 25 September and, at first, made good progress in spite of surviving wire entanglements and machine gun posts.
Nonetheless, word of the impending assault reached sailors at Kiel.
Field Marshal Luigi Cadorna, a staunch proponent of the frontal assault, had dreams of breaking into the Slovenian plateau, taking Ljubljana and threatening Vienna.
Nelson immediately ordered another assault but this was beaten back.
And his chinless blunder son Edmund was genuinely crestfallen when one of the oikish young visitors cruelly dismissed his cross-country assault course.

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