There was opposition at other convents, too, though we hear of no more attacks on the episcopal shoulders.
Alarums and excursions sometimes shattered their peace and, especially in the Northern counties, violent attacks at the hands of robbers, lawless neighbours, or enemies of the realm were only too common.
This man cared not for spilling the blood of his own race, and frequently would lead his hostile bands in attacks against the unprotected settlements.
During one of the Indian attacks on them the supply of water in the fort became exhausted, and surrender seemed unavoidable.
A series of attacks upon him had been arranged, much to the fallen Emperor's delight.
For analytical purposes, solutions of nitrates or sulphates of the metals are preferable to those of the chlorides, since liberated chlorine attacks the electrodes.
This bottle should preferably have a rubber stopper, as the hydroxide solution attacks the glass of the ground joint of a glass stopper, and may cement the stopper to the bottle.
The phosphorus then attacksand injures a platinum crucible, and the determination is valueless.
It attacks iron and nickel as well; but crucibles made from these metals may be used if care is exercised to keep the temperature as low as possible.
The repeated attacks of the cavalry on the square formed by Neverofsky’s retreating division, when the Russians coolly and successfully sustained forty charges led by the King of Naples in person, is an example in point.
He added that the King himself had been wounded, but he had saved the remnants of his command by means of repeated attacks on the overwhelming forces of the enemy, who had just begun to occupy the only road by which he could retreat.
Understanding the importance of this fact, the philosophers directed their attacks upon it, showing that the man the Christians called the Apostle was somebody else.
Our population is necessarily scattered along the valleys, or isolated in mining camps and gulches, and hence is exposed to sudden attacks from the Indians.
For while our relationship with Afghanistan will change, one thing will not: our resolve that terrorists do not launch attacks against our country.
Of course, as we speak, Al Qaida and their affiliates continue to plan attacks against us.
This transition to Afghan lead will continue, and we will build an enduring partnership with Afghanistan so that it is never again a source of attacks against America.
Middle class families are not going to feel more secure because we allowed attacks on collective bargaining to go unanswered.
No nation attacks us directly, or our allies, because they know that's the path to ruin.
If, then, Tiberius Gracchus had attempted to override the fundamental law of Rome for the purpose of obtaining some temporary personal or partisan advantage he might well have deserved the attacks which have been made upon his memory.
It is the proposed laws and attacks of this character which generally lead to a reaction, and in the end work to the benefit of the classes against which they are directed.
It is a story of the most aggravated selfishness and relentless hatred on the part of those favored few whose special and illegal interests were threatened by the attacks of the young reformers.
At the outset the Romans suffered two great defeats, at Heraclea and on the plain of Apulian Asculum, largely through their inability to meet the attacks of the phalanxes and of the war elephants.
Mrs. Collett attempted an opposition of dignity to those vehement attacks for answers.
A combat, perceptibly of some extension, would soon give him command of the man of peace; and energy to continue attacks will break down the energies of any dogged defensive stand.
The people were rendered very miserable not only by these great monsters in human form, but also by the attacks of the enormous animals that then lived.
He was indignant when he heard of the numbers of their enemies, and of the persistency of their attacks upon such industrious little creatures.
I have been reproached for still owing my friends an answer to the attacks which they directed exclusively against Christian religion.
The truth of his teaching should be known by its fruits, and there is scarcely a trace in the Gospels of philosophical discussions, or even of attacks on the schools of Greek philosophy.
I have remained silent, for reasons of my own, under your personal attacks on me, but now I have come to tell you that the attacks on the Department of the Interior and on my personal life must cease.
He set very little value on human sympathy, in his attacks of illness; and he bore congratulations impatiently, in his intervals of health.
Live in such a way in the times of comparative comfort that the attacks are less likely to appear and easier to bear when they do come.
My patients very often beg to know the best way to bear pain, how they may overcome the attacksof "nerves" that are harder to bear than pain.
It is that the pigs are given to eat it, that it causes severe attacks of indigestion, and often the death of the pig eating it.
Even when the young pigs are properly fed on suitable food there is a tendency in some little pigs to attacks of cramp.
Yet actual attackson men are much more rare than stories and traditions would lead one to think.
The cachalot attacks the giant squid whenever it meets one and the marks of the squid's winding arms and cruel suckers are often seen on the hides of whales as scars of some struggle between these Titans of the deep.
By means of the electric shocks which they are able to administer at will, the torpedo rays are able to ward off the attacks of enemies, and to kill or paralyze their prey.
But it rarely attacks unprovoked, except where a mother finds you tampering with her nest.
Their attacks cause little pain, and that fact has led physicians to put them into use when bleeding is required.
It attacks the manatee in its own element, and has been seen "dragging out of the water this bulky animal, weighing as much as an ox.
On the other hand there are some large pans in Amatongaland, which, although full of the reptiles, are said to be quite safe to bathe in, attacks on human beings being unknown.
We can only explain how these curious attacks of Reichert and His came to be regarded for a time as advances by the general lack of discrimination and of grasp of the true object of embryology.
But, as it has done a great deal to spread erroneous views among the general public, I have included a criticism of it in my History of Creation, as well as met Virchow's attacks on anthropogeny.
It is in this position that he will receive all attacks from an adversary, and from this position will all his own attacksbe made.
The practice consists of one pupil standing on the defensive entirely, while another assumes the offensive, and attacks him with all the feints of which he is master, the other, of course, defending with all his parades.
These attacks are called simple attacks, because they may be parried by one or more simple parades, according to the number of movements in the attack.
On the 1st of September simultaneous attacks were made upon Deerfield and Hadley, and among the traditions of the latter place is one of the most interesting of the stories of that early time.
Robinson accepted a professorship in the university, and engaged in the defence of Calvinism against the attacks of Episcopius, the successor of Arminius.
Nevertheless, himself was seized with the vague apprehension which attacks lovers in their fullest felicity, and spoils their most innocent joys.
They were making an attack on a Russian position about five miles away; but it was not successful--few such attacks are.
We had no guns so heavy in our lines; and I attribute the fact that the Russians were never able to fully push home their attacks to this cause.
On the contrary, it may be taken as certainly proved that men's nerves are more steeled than ever they were, and that the same body of men can make repeated and successive attacks within very short periods of time.
For a time the Russian attacks were irresistible, but the Germans invariably succeeded in stemming them.
In the above attacks fresh bodies of troops were brought up each time, but the remnants of the battalions previously used were always driven on in front.
Finally we made a stand at Chorzellen, and the Prussians tried their usual tactics of repeated attacks in masses.
Concurrent with the official moves against religions, a number of antireligious brochures and pamphlets were prepared and distributed by the Democratic Front in an effort to prepare the people for the attacks on their religious institutions.
Khrushchev then became the object of violent attacks in the Albanian press, being castigated as more of a revisionist than Tito.
Their attacks on my securities will ultimately ruin me; but such attacks would ruin any financier, any bank in the United States, if continued long enough.
Not even were the wives and daughters of the barons exempt from the attacks of the royalists; and it was no uncommon occurrence to find them suffering imprisonment, and something worse, at the hands of the King's supporters.
From now on, the forces of Torn were employed in repeated attacks on royalist barons, encroaching ever and ever southward until even Berkshire and Surrey and Sussex felt the weight of the iron hand of the outlaw.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "attacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
