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How to use the word attacking in a Sentence? Page #12

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The only reason why you're doing it now is because we're running for the same position, and someone has convinced you that attacking me is going to help you, i'm not running against Governor Bush, I'm not running against anyone on this stage. I'm running for president.

Marco RUBIO

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Are we really talking about getting government involved in fantasy football? wait a second: we have $19 trillion in debt, we have people out of work, we have ISIS and al-Qaeda attacking us. And we're talking about fantasy football? Can we stop?

Chris Christie

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One of the reasons you don't brag about your standing in the polls is because when it goes down, you look silly attacking the polls you were praising not so long ago, you actually sound stronger when you're the poll leader if you dismiss those polls.

Eric Fehrstrom

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What about the other people, who are attacking (opposition leader) Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, sharing hate speech, attacking Muslims online?

May Sabe Phyu

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We do a really good job with the safety of the airplanes, it's up to the builder to use good judgment when they are building and maintaining the airplane. The lawsuit seems to be kind of attacking the industry in general and that's unfortunate.

Scott Risan

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I have great respect for George W Bush, and was proud to work on his 2000 campaign and in his administration, it's no surprise that President Bush is supporting his brother and attacking the candidates he believes pose a threat to his campaign. I have no intention of reciprocating. I met my wife Heidi working on his campaign, and so I will always be grateful to him.

Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

You're looking at a candidate who has run in many, many elections, who has never run a negative political ad in my life and hopes never to have to run them, and you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

And you're looking at a candidate who does not go about attacking people personally. I just don't do that.

Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This step( attacking rebels in the north) opens the door to an open-ended war in the region and a declared( Sunni-Shi' ite) sectarian war which could in the long term transform to a second Afghanistan for the Russians, and they wo n’t be able to win it.

Sarkis Naoum

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Can a government become a signatory to an international agreement and then the subsequent government tear it to shreds? This is something that only the likes of Saddam Hussein would do, saddam Hussein, previous to attacking Iran in 1980, did sign an agreement with Iran and then tore it to shreds himself and then attacked Iran.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I am not surprised the dishonest, irrelevant and totally failing Club for Growth has resorted to attacking the definitive front runner, especially after I refused to contribute to their pathetic group. We will be releasing my current tax proposal, which is a major decrease in taxes, in the next week and will continue to expose the two faced hypocrisy of the Club for Growth and the problems groups like this perpetuate within a broken Washington, D.C..

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's not so much what religion you are, it's what you stand for. But I don't think that we're really anywhere near, probably, that happening -- because they're a small minority in our population, but the hard part is, while we are a very pluralistic society and we're open to all religions, more free than any other country, the problem we have is the people who have been attacking us have been all of one religion and so it's hard to separate that.

Rand Paul

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Hillary Clinton's political machine resorting to attacking Jeb over 9/11 is a depressing example of just how extreme the left has gotten. If there's one thing we should all agree on it's that in response to that horrific attack, the country came together with resolve in the face of evil to ensure we keep our country safe. Today, while Jeb has offered a plan to defeat ISIS, the Democrats have no strategy and they are making these craven attacks.

Allie Brandenburger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Zawahiri is clearly very angry and frustrated that the Islamic State has been attacking him, attacking his soldiers on the ground, attacking him personally. you can compare it to two drug gangs, or two mafia mobs. One is encroaching on the other's territory.

Georgetown University Nicholas Palarino

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Donald Trump’s not gonna get elected by disparaging people, by attacking people all the time, that’s not gonna be how you win. You lift people’s spirits up to be President of the United States.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Donald Trump's not going to get elected president by disparaging people, by attacking people all the time. That's not going to work. You lift people's spirits up to become president of the United States.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush

Found on CNN
8 years ago

One of the things that I'm most honored about is that so far everybody who's attacked me has gone down the tubes, you had Perry attacking me, now he's getting out of the race.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

On Wednesday it was the rebels attacking the SPLA in Nhialdiu and the SPLA repulsed them. There are casualties but we don’t have the details up to now, definitely, the army command will implement the government policy and we will only fight in self-defense if the rebels attack our positions.

Philip Aguer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

On Wednesday it was the rebels attacking the SPLA in Nhialdiu and the SPLA repulsed them. There are casualties but we don't have the details up to now, definitely, the army command will implement the government policy and we will only fight in self-defence if the rebels attack our positions.

Philip Aguer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Kentucky GOP Sen. Rand Paul said. Democrats largely supported the group and argue the videos and the congressional Republican response is politically motivated and another attack on women. They're attacking women's health.

The Republican-controlled Senate

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The way to do that is by saying Podemos is going to win... and Carmena and Colau are two representatives of this 'left-wing threat', that is why Rajoy and the whole party are attacking them.

Antonio Barroso

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We want to acknowledge that hearing laboratory conversations about research out of context can be jarring, especially when the conversation is being manipulated for the purpose of attacking women's health care, nevertheless, this coordinated attack on women's health will not deter us from providing essential reproductive health care and from advancing important medical research.

Vicki Cowart

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When people attack me I let them have it back ... People are constantly attacking my hair. I don't see you coming to my defense. My hair is just fine, first thing's first. Your hair is not fine.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I think we have to be careful about over-arming ourselves, and I'm not talking about where you end up attacking each other.

Ray Odierno

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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