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How to use the word attacking in a Sentence? Page #10

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Every person that tries to put pressure on individual lawmakers with threats must know they are attacking the entire parliament.

Norbert Lammert

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

My advice to our nominee is to start talking about the issues that the American people care about, and to start doing it now, in addition to that, it's time to quit attacking various people that you competed with or various minority groups in the country and get on message.

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

While the emails have never been the focus of our investigation, it was necessary to obtain them, and this committee is the first and only one to do so, if anyone wonders why the investigation is not yet complete, the malfeasance and numerous problems identified in this report are Exhibit A, and prove the committee has faced serial delays from day one at the hands of public officials who sought to avoid transparency and accountability. Congressional Democrats spent most of the day on Wednesday playing down the State Department audit. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Secretary Clinton had acted in good conscience and that Secretary Clinton email practices were consistent with what past secretaries of state had done. The audit did not name any other secretaries who had done so. Rep. Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland, ranking Democrat on the House oversight committee, accused Republicans of attacking Secretary Clinton only because Secretary Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Trey Gowdy

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

You're attacking the science of an independent non-profit whose entire mission is tied to opening the black box of pricing.

Sarah Emond

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Over the past few days, the Taliban have been attacking security belts near Lashkar Gah.

Bashir Shaker

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Hollywood is indeed attacking the right, and that is to be expected, which is why on talk radio, California is called ‘ the left coast,'.

Ellen Ratner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It affects the European carp by attacking their kidneys, their skin, their gills and stopping them breathing effectively.

Christopher Pyne

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's inconceivable that this group, instead of giving concrete displays of peace, insists on kidnapping and attacking the infrastructure of Colombians, like it did today with another pipeline bombing, causing immense harm to the environment.

President Juan Manuel Santos

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The most successful attacks by more sophisticated hackers tend to be strategically “indirect”. Why risk attacking Target directly and getting caught. Just hack the HVAC contractor and use their access to Target’s network

James Scott

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8 years ago

He was great, the biggest thing is he kept attacking the basket, he kept being aggressive. When Jeff plays like that, it just makes us a different team.

Al Horford

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

While attacking illegal entities, the restrictions are also impacting those funds that want to do real business.

Elva Yu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a difference between freedom of expression and hate speech, there is no place for hate speech on campus. If she was attacking gays or Hispanics, there would be no tolerance for that.

Nitsana Darshan-Leitner

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

He's learning how to spell, but he's flying around on 'Hair Force One' and tweeting. So here's the one tweet he put out. He put out a picture of having makeup put on me at the debate. Which is amazing to me that the guy with the worst spray tan in America is attacking me for putting on makeup. Donald Trump likes to sue people. He should sue whoever did that to his face with that.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

In other words, Trump wasn’t simply attacking former President George W. Bush’s decision to go to Iraq, instead, he was attacking all of the Republicans in South Carolina for standing by the Bush family. It should be a bridge too far.

Lara Brown

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It would have been a bloody big job to move. And until the UK government started attacking the likes of HSBC, they didn't have any desire to move, the tax concessions are a good thing. What Gulliver needs to do now is tidy up the bank.

Hugh Young

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It would have been a bloody big job to move. And until the UK government started attacking the likes of HSBC, they (HSBC) didn't have any desire to move, the tax concessions are a good thing. What Gulliver needs to do now is tidy up the bank.

Hugh Young

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I think Chris was someone who somehow concluded that attacking me would help him in his campaign, obviously it didn't work.

Marco Rubio

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If the Taliban are attacking coalition forces, then I have everything I need to do that, to attack the Taliban, just because they're Taliban, I do not have that authority.

John Campbell

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He's attacking me, so does that count, or is this just only a one-way street? Is this the child of privilege that has a free pass, whenever everybody else has to fight for it? This isn't bean bag, you know. This is politics. Every campaign, every candidate will be contrasted and compared. Their records needs to be shown.

Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I just don't think it's in my interest right now to go out there attacking other people for their depth or anything else. That's not what I want to do.

The Ohio governor

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Turkey will be supporting any initiative for a political solution in Syria, except the only criteria we want is that the moderate opposition should be represented by their own will and initiative. There should not be any representation of terrorist groups around the table, some circles, including Russia, they want to spoil the opposition side, putting some other elements in the opposition side like the YPG, which has been collaborating with the regime and attacking the moderate opposition.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Some circles, including Russia, they want to spoil the opposition side, putting some other elements in the opposition side like the YPG, which has been collaborating with the regime and attacking the moderate opposition.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's been a real political currency to attacking the establishment as it's being defined, i do believe that when we get through the primary season we will have unification of the conservative movement and our party.

The Republican Party Ryan

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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