Frontal assaults were always attempted as a last resort, but they were costly, and their failures eroded political resolve back home. |
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On another occasion during his 11-month tour he led three assaults on an enemy position until it finally fell. |
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His son, Dave, was convicted of nine indecent assaults and sentenced to community service. |
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The city fell just 21 days after the initial assaults, and military analysts describe the campaign as historic, even brilliant. |
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I was barely able to keep up with the barrage of verbal assaults coming my way. |
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But most of the incidents were fighting between individuals, minor public order incidents and minor assaults. |
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Four footballers are facing court cases arising out of two separate alleged incidents involving violent assaults. |
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Then he thought of his own limitations and knew he was not proof against his father's verbal assaults. |
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It used to protect listeners and viewers from the venomous verbal assaults of right wing commentators. |
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After luring her into a warren of back streets, Dadia throttled her and subjected her to a series of indecent assaults. |
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He retreated to the ground and did not continue to persist in creating hostile assaults. |
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Troops and police have been involved in running battles with rebels who launched an audacious series of pre-dawn assaults. |
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Figures show an increase in the number of reported anti-gay attacks, which parallels a similar rise in racist assaults over the last two years. |
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Three assaults on Richmond by Grant were repelled by Lee, after which Union forces besieged the Confederate capital through the winter. |
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The offences include thefts, stealing cars, assaults on police officers, drugs offences and failing to surrender to bail. |
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Nothing here builds, nothing has any drama, nothing assaults or moves or challenges, it just unapologetically sounds all hippy-dippy. |
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Kenneth raided Northumbria repeatedly, but his kingdom suffered assaults from the Britons of Strathclyde as well as Scandinavians. |
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The gang has also been linked to assaults on two researchers, a hijacking and two attempted hijackings. |
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For about a month after that an orgy of brutal beatings up and assaults upon Prisoners of War irrespective of rank occurred. |
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The recent attacks follow in a long line of assaults on oppositionists in Zimbabwe. |
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These assaults, and their implicit criticism of the active VP, miss the mark. |
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In the West, the jab and the haymaker are the most common striking assaults in self-defense situations. |
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The Muscovites bombarded the wooden walls with cannon, but to little effect, and infantry assaults were beaten off. |
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Residents have called police to report drug activity, prostitution, thefts and assaults. |
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Reports of carjackings, assaults and forced evictions grew today, adding to an impression that recent improvements in security were evaporating. |
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Improved street lighting could reduce the amount of street violence, assaults, muggings, car thefts and burglaries, he said. |
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Most assaults were directed against U.S. military convoys, columns, or checkpoints. |
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The attack is a sinister twist to the recent happy slapping phenomenon, where thugs record assaults on their victims. |
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The report can accurately describe violative conduct without resorting to personal assaults. |
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If you feel you're missing out on watching tigers launch assaults on nilgai, or muggers ambushing chital as they bend down to drink, take heart. |
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These convictions were mainly for various assaults, but also included drug offences and one conviction for breaking and entering. |
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Mr Dennehy says this reflects a dramatic upward spiral in the number of assaults on prison officers. |
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Labor brings the most muscle, for instance, but it also has to play defense against Republican assaults on a variety of bread-and-butter issues. |
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Aircraft carriers docked at the naval pier and marines regularly practised amphibious assaults on the north shore of the bay. |
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Complaints have been made to the police of threats and intimidation, assaults, criminal damage and public disorder. |
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The incidents include verbal abuse, slogans daubed on walls and physical assaults. |
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The early 1990s were also the years in which the first particularly brutal neo-fascist assaults took place in Germany. |
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These range from stabbings to violent assaults so serious that some shopworkers are scared of actually going back on the shopfloor. |
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Criminal lawyers in Nunavut often deal with clients accused of rape, stabbings and violent assaults. |
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It assaults the listener with an unrelenting powerhouse of guitars that has not dated, sounding as innovative and fierce as it did ten years ago. |
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The proposal represented one of the worst assaults on the freedom of speech and association ever proposed in the United States. |
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Alaska generally, and Anchorage specifically, have been plagued by a high incidence of forcible rapes and sexual assaults. |
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On some occasions, reports of sexual assaults or abductions given to the police were simply lost. |
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Police are warning troublemakers that their behaviour will not be tolerated following another weekend of assaults and vandalism. |
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Previously he was investigated for a number of attacks, drug dealing and assaults. |
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It is the third arrest as part of a police operation using new DNA technology to reinvestigate unsolved sexual assaults. |
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Background checks can turn up records of assaults or other violence, as well as white-collar crimes. |
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How do we develop a response to the Labour and Conservative assaults on our Home affairs and Taxation polices? |
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They are said to have inhumanely treated internees, who sustained injuries following repeated assaults. |
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When Kubrat's state fell apart under the assaults of the Khazar tribes his sons separated and scattered. |
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Common assaults are those resulting in no injury and in the past may have gone unrecorded. |
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City opponents have redoubled their assaults, sensing that a Tory victory is not impossible. |
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Just a day before salvation comes, a burly, angry con assaults Nick and sticks his shiv into Nick's gizzard. |
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Feral children are blamed for a quarter of all street assaults and robberies. |
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Personnel from both countries compared and practiced their skills in a parachute insertion, amphibious operations and live-fire assaults. |
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After Galvanic, all the major amphibious assaults took place with wave upon wave of amtracs leading the assault. |
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They would constitute serious assaults if carried out without consent, or specific lawful authority. |
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The third, and presumably most venturesome of all castle assaults was the storm. |
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The other side decries these assaults as blatantly sexist, misogynist exercises that have no place in modern society. |
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The music is stark and odd, composed largely of out-of-tune singing, rhythmless guitar plucking, and merciless assaults on a piano. |
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We've seen serious increases in levels of indiscipline, from low-level disruption and verbal abuse to physical assaults on teachers. |
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This included 126 physical assaults, 62 sexual insults and threats and nine cases of racist abuse. |
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But much of this critical riposte assaults our protagonist's dignity more than is necessary for an appreciation of the film. |
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There was a 23.1 per cent rise in other sexual crimes, including indecent exposure and more minor sexual assaults. |
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Most of that, we think, is apportioned to assaults, particularly linked to alcohol. |
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In April last year he spent three consecutive nights in police cells for assaults on her. |
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England and Wales already have the highest levels of burglaries, car thefts, assaults and robberies in the industrialised world. |
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He was also found not guilty of four indecent assaults and one serious sexual offence against a third alleged victim. |
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The number of reported sexual assaults rose by 150 per cent and the number of armed robberies using firearms was up 67 per cent. |
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Most of the incidents involved name-calling, verbal abuse and racist comments, rather than physical assaults. |
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Veteran students joined senior faculty in resisting Bolshevik assaults on academic autonomy. |
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They suffer discrimination, racist abuse, violent assaults and murderous attacks. |
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There are similarities between a lot of the assaults but we can't say for certain if they are connected. |
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This intercepts calls and fends off assaults using attack signatures, or known patterns and behavioral rules to pinpoint unusual traffic. |
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Walk through a shopping district or a fashionable neighbourhood in Delhi and the enervating sound of a dozen generators assaults your ears. |
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I am calm, understated and quietly bemused at every swipe of toilet humour that assaults my ears. |
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I miss a little of their dialogue as a rowdy French accordion medley assaults my ears. |
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Activities such as theft can lead the offenders to worse crimes like homicide and sexual assaults. |
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And physical assaults against staff behind the counters ranged from them being pushed around to being hit with weapons, including sticks and crowbars. |
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Dixon was legally bound to not report the assaults at the victims' requests, in abidance with physician-patient privilege. |
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He embraces her and, in a fit of demented anger and frustration, sexually assaults her against the altar of their dead son. |
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Surfers today forecast waves using technology first developed to help with the timing of amphibious assaults. |
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Two of the recruits have admitted to two sexual assaults and a bicycle theft in Market Square right at the center of the old town. |
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The buffer zone would protect civilians, Syrian rebels, and Kurds against ISIS assaults. |
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Thus, during Jim Crow, black men were routinely hanged, castrated, and lynched for alleged sexual assaults against white women. |
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As I have pointed out, in justification of her continued cohabitation with the father, the mother, in this court, tried to minimize the domestic assaults. |
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Of the 65 reported assaults last year, in only one case was the accused assailant subjected to a court-martial. |
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These widespread and systematic sexual assaults can collectively be described as a crime against humanity. |
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Crime on the towpaths includes everything from minor thefts to serious assaults and even murder, but the amount of crime reported is relatively low. |
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Securing a SAN from external assaults is not particularly hard, since most SANs are located behind thick firewalls with zealously guarded network access. |
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Under Alfonso Cano, who took command in 2008, the farc regrouped, pulling off assaults and bombings in the country and the city. |
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The local police have praised the women for fighting back and said their fierceness kept the assaults from moving further. |
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But even his biggest defenders will flinch at the assaults, sexual or not, that Joe has to endure in Nymphomaniac. |
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He specialized in frontal assaults on the enemy, and he quickly acquired a reputation for brutal and extreme violence. |
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The player will be presented with a wide array of scenarios, from VIP rescue missions to stealth incursions to full frontal assaults against hordes of enemies. |
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It is likely that we will hear more verbal assaults around both the accuracy of poverty statistics, and the legitimacy of those who produce such research. |
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Anna hurried out, avoiding anymore air born objects and verbal assaults. |
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Stanley Kubrick's sagacious adaptation of Anthony Burgess' controversial novel assaults the screen with snakes, Ludwig van, and more than a bit of the old ultra-violence. |
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Together with their messy tangle of wires they further despoil the view through The Village already made unsightly by the telecom company's previous assaults. |
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The drama begins when she savagely assaults an innocent stranger. |
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The clipped lines and metallic austerities of modern design couldn't resist the assaults of this charm offensive inspired by tchotchkes from Mexico, India, and the Southwest. |
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The list also includes 14 hospitals, 14 assaults in schools, and even a hospice for the dying. |
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He became increasingly angry, drank heavily, and committed a series of assaults that eventually landed him in state prison. |
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She notes that in some 70 percent of assaults categorized in the poll, alcohol was involved, and the woman was incapacitated. |
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When I walk through it, the thick odor of leather assaults my senses. |
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The unit specialized in conducting assaults against heavily defended coastal beachheads or reaching targets that were only accessible through difficult and rugged terrain. |
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He detailed his troops to secure the apartment as they went, surgically, methodically, like all SEAL assaults. |
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One in four of us are forced to live through the violent assaults that these men resent being made cognizant of. |
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John Bell Hood, for whom Fort Hood, Tex., is named, led a hard-fighting brigade known for ferocious straight-on assaults. |
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This is serious gambling which often causes assaults and killing among hosts and bettors when bettors win huge amounts that hosts are unable to pay. |
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The reasons can vary from liver illnesses to assaults, trips and falls. |
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When the assaults failed, Grant settled into conventional siege warfare. |
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Within this same organization, numerous sexual assaults on its own women occur year after year, often unchecked and unreported. |
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He was one of the first great modern day ad-libbers, unleashing all-out joke assaults on unsuspecting audiences. |
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They were involved in numerous murders, assaults, rapes and robberies and if you crossed their path you were unlikely to emerge without a few broken bones. |
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But the charges are cover for cultural misunderstandings, sexual assaults, and withheld wages. |
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Following a number of assaults, bag snatches and break-ins, the manager of the complex, David Peters, organised patrols of the area by uniformed private security guards. |
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That frontal assaults sometimes succeeded despite enormous casualties speaks more of soldierly courage and fortitude than any general's brilliance. |
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Full marks to Waterford County Council for acting with such haste in having the place boarded up to prevent further vandalistic assaults on the building. |
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No-one would question the spirit of this South African team, but the legs had nothing left and after numerous futile assaults on the Wallaby defence White blew for no side. |
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As bad as the assaults themselves are, they are only part of the problem targeted by reformers. |
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The students found these assaults offensively condescending. |
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I have seen victims of brutal assaults where head kicking has taken place. |
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Has nobody else worked out that you simply can't go around letting these chavs get their hands on cocaine without expecting a giant leap in the number of dead common assaults? |
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Most patients were young lads with a Northern Irish accent, usually victims of violent incidents like stone throwing, assaults, or even punishment beatings. |
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We do not consider that sentences of three years are adequate to reflect the gravity of these continued indecent assaults and we shall quash them as unduly lenient. |
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By deceiving the attacker, the defender feeds him false information and forces him to waste time in fruitless assaults, thereby blunting future attacks. |
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In many cases, inoffensive people are injured in unprovoked assaults. |
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She claims compensation for irreparable effects of the assaults on her mental condition and their consequent effect on her ability to earn her future livelihood. |
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To help keep these assaults from getting out of hand there are a couple of very handy dandy power-ups that players can collect in their travels through the levels. |
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Most of us are indulging in the usual gallows humour we use to get us through the general round of threats and attempted assaults that are our daily lot. |
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Across most of Europe trade unions have organised mass strikes and general strikes to stop the sort of assaults that are happening now in Britain. |
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However, the assaults on whites that winter were made by a small gang of detribalized blacks led by a man named Musquito, who was not defending his tribal lands. |
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He is so direct, he practically assaults the modern, spin-accustomed ear. |
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He pleaded guilty to three other indecent assaults on the same youngster. |
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Last year 50 people were arrested in York and Selby in the run-up to Christmas for incidents ranging from drunken domestic disputes to assaults and public disorder. |
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We are conscious, dealing with victims, that no offence except the most serious assaults so trouble and disturb people as an invasion of their homes. |
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Apparently he was wanted for a series of offences ranging from indecently exposing himself to children to assaults on people who refused to give him money. |
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The rebels' assaults were unsuccessful, and so they began a barrage of artillery and musket fire into the compound. |
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The assaults against the several islands were supported by naval bombardments and air strikes. |
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In between terms behind the lines at Bouzincourt, he participated in the assaults on the Schwaben Redoubt and the Leipzig Salient. |
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The reason for the nasty assaults is that along with being a world-class trap shooter, Corey Cogdell is an avid hunter and outdoorswoman. |
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Previously, attacks had been characterised by long artillery bombardments and massed assaults. |
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There were 66 physical assaults, two of threatening behaviour and one verbal assault reported. |
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Sadly, however, most sexual assaults occur where the direct strictures of military command hierarchy fail to reach. |
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On 4 and 5 May, the French launched repeated and fruitless assaults on the Messkirch. |
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Two years ago, we estimated about 1 in 10 sexual assaults were being reported. |
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Making use of their sophisticated warfare and superior diplomacy, the Byzantines managed to fend off assaults by the migrating barbarians. |
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Justice Department, sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes, with 68 percent of sexual assaults against adults left unreported. |
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Airborne pollution from nearby factories assaults the venerable marble statuary and mausolea. |
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However, his repeated assaults on Acre were driven back by Ottoman and British forces under the command of Jezzar Pasha and Sir Sidney Smith. |
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Grant gave up his costly frontal assaults on fortified Rebel positions and slowly attritted Lee's combat power. |
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The rising was marked by widespread assaults on the British Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. |
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There have been documented instances of police being unwilling to investigate instances of acquaintance rape and same-sex sexual assaults. |
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A drug operation housed in an apartment complex across from an elementary school spawned frequent shootings, assaults, and robberies. |
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Nationally, 2003 marked the tenth consecutive decline in the volume of aggravated assaults. |
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There have been alleged assaults on the media, the political opposition, civil society activists, and human rights defenders. |
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The Ottoman army had made several frontal assaults on the land wall, but were always repelled with heavy losses. |
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After three unsuccessful assaults, the stronghold fell, but not before Alexander had received a serious shoulder wound. |
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On the one hand, he launches assaults on Otherworldly fortresses in search of treasure and frees their prisoners. |
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The rising featured widespread assaults on the Protestant communities in Ireland, sometimes culminating in massacres. |
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English teacher Edmonds got six years for four serious sexual assaults and seven indecent assaults. |
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Aug 29 Charged with nine indecent assaults on two girls aged 14 and 15 in 1980s and four counts of making indecent images. |
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Hall showed no reaction as he was found not guilty of 15 counts of rape and four indecent assaults. |
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The first six charges are all indecent assaults, relating to one complainant, a boy aged under 16 at the time. |
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A jury at Canterbury Crown Court last month convicted him of indecent assault, but cleared him of an alleged rape and two more indecent assaults. |
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The alleged indecent assaults date from 1980 to 1986 and relate to two complainants aged 14 and 15 at the time of the alleged offending. |
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That year, in autumn, Widukind returned and led a revolt that resulted in many assaults on the church. |
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Two dukes of Gascony, Seguin II and William I, died defending Bordeaux from Viking assaults. |
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The fortress city of Hatra, on the Tigris in his rear, continued to hold out against repeated Roman assaults. |
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Thankfully, there is no reason to think he committed any further murderous assaults within that period. |
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In Tanzania, a winged bat cryptid known as Popobawa, is believed to be a shapeshifting evil spirit that assaults and sodomises its victims. |
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This portion of the raid was considered a model for future amphibious Royal Marine Commando assaults as part of major landing operations. |
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This lovely story about an unusual family is a great antidote for the barrage of violence, negativity, and cynicism that daily assaults us. |
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Information minister Hassan Sylla Bakari said four attackers also died in the assaults on two police buildings in N'Djamena. |
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Armorgard laminated glass helps provide a barrier against ballistic assaults and prevent spalling on the protected interior surface. |
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Detectives have the ability to lock down information based on case sensitivity, such as for cases involving sexual assaults. |
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He endured, tumesced, became ever more horrific in the storied assaults he launched on black flesh. |
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Both kingdoms fell in the great assaults of the Danish Viking armies in the 9th century. |
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The 16th RWF, which had fallen behind the creeping barrage, were met with determined German resistance which repulsed two assaults. |
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Our initiation wasn't filled with malicious, harmful assaults on teammates, but served instead as a bonding opportunity. |
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Kelly DeVries argues that Joan of Arc's aggressive use of artillery and frontal assaults influenced French tactics for the rest of the war. |
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During the Bishop's Wars the king attempted to blockade Scotland and planned amphibious assaults from England on the East coast and from Ireland to the West. |
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Further south, the Saxon kings of Wessex withstood the Danish assaults. |
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It was intended to determine whether the assaults occurred in the context of an officer carrying out a common law police power that in some way connected to common law duties. |
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The University of California and California State University systems say their policies already permit punishing students for off-campus sexual assaults. |
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Clinique's Superdefense Triple Action SPF25, pounds 22 and Rhodes To Heaven's Orange Skin Food, pounds 27, will protect against environmental assaults. |
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There were about 134 rapes, 3,142 robberies, and about 2,139 assaults. |
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From about 800 AD waves of Danish Viking assaults on the coastlines of the British Isles were gradually followed by a succession of Danish settlers in England. |
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The German occupants encouraged such registration, in many cases forcing it or subjecting Poles of German ethnicity to terror assaults if they refused. |
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Councilman Bernard Parks, a former LAPD chief, took the department to task for reclassifying domestic-violence assaults without first consulting the City Council. |
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However, his general Litorius was badly defeated by the Visigoths at Toulouse, and a new Suevic king, Rechiar, began vigorous assaults on what remained of Roman Hispania. |
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The amphibious assaults in North Africa followed three months after the Dieppe Raid, and the successful Normandy landings took place two years later. |
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Though the Delhi and Mumbai cases garnered widespread media attention and sparked nationwide protests, gang-rapes and sexual assaults are reported daily in Indian newspapers. |
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During the Hundred Years' War, the Kingdom of England made repeated assaults on the island but were unable to seize it due to the abbey's improved fortifications. |
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Japanese troops tried numerous frontal assaults on the fortified hilltops overlooking the harbour, which were defeated with Japanese casualties in the thousands. |
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In the undecided Battle of Tornow on 25 September, a Swedish army repulsed six assaults by a Prussian army but did not push on Berlin following the Battle of Fehrbellin. |
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That's a welcome and necessary move, one that signals that officials were serious when they pledged greater transparency on the problem of campus sexual assaults. |
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