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How to use the word ATTACKS in a Sentence? Page #42

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Throngs of young people driving around the neighborhood in cars draped with Turkish flags at night fired occasional shots in the air. Amid concern that attacks and vandalism could spark clashes as Kurdish residents complained of delayed police responses, authorities deployed riot squads in Altindag. We just watched this havoc for two days, but if they come again, we will defend ourselves.

Cumali Tastan

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have had a couple of young kids that had asthma attacks, they have given them steroids ... (and) we get them on the train as quickly as possible, we have had a few babies that have come through and their bottoms and everything have been really bad.

Kathleen Leak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is the identical approach taken by Chairman (Darrell) Issa when he served as chairman of the Oversight Committee -- forcing witnesses to appear in person to assert their Fifth Amendment rights just for a photo op, mr. Pagliano's testimony has nothing to do with the Benghazi attacks and everything to do with Republicans' insatiable desire to derail Secretary Clinton's presidential bid.

Elijah Cummings

Found on CNN
8 years ago

As you might guess I’ve been around a while, lots of attacks, questions raised. I can survive it because I’m running to be president, to do what the country needs done, i believe the American people will respond to that.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

As you might guess I’ve been around a while, lots of attacks, questions raised. I can survive it because I ’m running to be president, to do what the country needs done, i believe the American people will respond to that.

Hillary Clinton

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have proof that attacks have been planned from Syria against several countries, notably France, my responsibility is to ensure that we are informed as much as possible on the threats to our country ... so I have asked the defense minister that from tomorrow reconnaissance flights begin over Syria that will enable us to consider air strikes against Islamic State.

President Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's something in the Iran deal that people I don't think really understand or know about, and nobody is able to explain it that if somebody attacks Iran, we have to come to their defense. And I'm saying, does that includes Israel? And most people say, yes. They don't have exclusion for Israel. So, if Israel attacks Iran according to that deal, I believe, the way it reads unless they have a codicil or they have something to it, that we have to fight with Iran against Israel.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The Chinese government staunchly upholds cyber security, firmly opposes and combats all forms of cyber attacks in accordance with law.

Chinese Embassy spokesman Zhu Haiquan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's an awful lot of interest now in making certain that Donald Trump doesn't lead to the inevitable election of either Hillary Clinton or Joe Biden by a number of interested conservative outside parties, this has to be like shark attacks. Nip. Nip. Blood. Nip. Blood. Blood. Blood. A feeding frenzy.

Rick Wilson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I'll tell you, with Mitt Romney there were months and months and attacks from President Obama's campaign about Mitt Romney success and it wasn't just that campaign. It was Newt Gingrich, Perry and others.

Lanhee Chen

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you don't stand up to your opponent that is trying to define you then you're allowing yourself to be defined. Basically Trump is attempting to swiftboat Jeb Bush with a variety of attacks in order to show that Jeb is too weak to be a contender in the Republican primary.

Ron Bonjean

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Trump looks to be playing the schoolyard bully in order to show that Jeb Bush is too weak with his counter-attacks to really be a threat.

Ron Bonjean

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our homicide rate is higher than comparable European nations. If anything, though, it is these kinds of attacks that make us stand out so negatively from the rest of the world and give us this violent reputation as a country, frankly, if we want to give the world a message from what we've learned from all of this, is to say that, 'It is possible, these things do happen, so be prepared and learn from it before you have a tragedy of your own.'.

Adam Lankford

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There's going to be all sorts of disasters that take place -- natural disasters, attacks on the homeland -- it's a certainty in an uncertain world that this president and the next president is going to have to confront all sorts of challenges where his leadership or her leadership is going to matter.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Given China's massive cyber attacks against America, its militarization of the South China Sea, continued state interference with its economy, and persistent persecution of Christians and human rights activists, President Obama needs to cancel the state visit.

Scott Walker

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

People and the media attempt to criticize you as somehow intolerant, and yet what is the tolerance that has been demonstrated to you for following a biblical teaching? you have endured the pain, endured the attacks, endured the hatred, that precisely put you where you are here today ... Dick, you talked about not knowing where your friends are. Well let me point out, there are 3,000 Iowans.

Ted Cruz coloring books

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You have endured the pain, endured the attacks, endured the hatred, that precisely put you where you are here today ... Dick, you talked about not knowing where your friends are. Well let me point out, there are 3,000 Iowans.

Ted Cruz coloring books

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I thinks it's a lot of the attacks from the outside, as people come back and look at what we have to offer, we're going to have the support of people in our state just like we have the support of people in places like New Hampshire, Iowa and South Carolina.

Scott Walker

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The U.S. State Department has been looking into reports of chlorine gas attacks since at least April 2014, the administration is slow-walking its investigation.

Jim Phillips

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Sometimes there will be attacks on refineries and then we will not get fuel for several days. They also sometimes hit tanker trucks on the roads, there are days were we have to close the gas station altogether.

Ali Mustapha

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The attack did not bear the hallmarks of either southern Muslim separatists or red-shirt militants, both groups have carried out terrorist attacks in the past, but not on this scale in terms of loss of life.

Angel Rabasa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The previous compound was surrounded by civilian homes and civilians could be harmed during Taliban attacks.

Omar Zwak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Attacks on civilian areas with aerial indiscriminate bombs, such as vacuum bombs, are prohibited under international law, hitting crowded civilian markets killing almost one hundred of its own citizens by a government is unacceptable in any circumstances.

De Mistura

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

An important fact in the decision to euthanize the bear was that a significant portion of the (hiker's) body was consumed and cached with the intent to return for further feeding, normal defensive attacks by female bears defending their young do not involve consumption of the victim's body.

Yellowstone National Park

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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