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How to use the word attacking in a Sentence? Page #9

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U.S. measures are essentially attacking global supply and value chains. To put it simply, the U.S. is opening fire on the entire world, including itself, china will not bow down in the face of threats and blackmail and will not falter from its determination to defend free trade and the multilateral system.

Commerce Ministry spokesman Gao Feng

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The banking and insurance industries have set their sights on attacking the disparate impact standard.

Kristen Clarke

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Promoting hate and division and actually attacking the administration or anybody who's involved with this administration. That's unheard-of. She should be put behind bars and throw away the key.

Actor Antonio Sabato

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We do not want to play reluctantly. We want to play proactively and take the initiative, we do have the skills to hold the ball, and we'd like our players to feel confident and focus on attacking.

Akira Nishino

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

[ Sanford ] talks about working with President Trump on the border wall, president Donald Trump was one of only five Republicans who refused to support our President and voted against Trump's border wall. We've all seen Mark Sanford on TV attacking our President. Who does Mark Sanford think Mark Sanford's fooling ?

Katie Arrington

Found on CNN
5 years ago

For them to exert that force on him is unconscionable, no matter what age, race and gender you are, police should not be attacking and hurting people when they're there to serve and protect.

Benjamin Taylor

Found on CNN
5 years ago

These birds are aggressive and must be housed separately to keep them from attacking each other.

Mike Keiley

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The children of those being subject to all sorts of torture in concentration camps during World War Two are now attacking Palestinians with methods that would put Nazis to shame.

Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

They weren't there to chit-chat. They were on a mission. They were there to confront us, they were attacking. And I was fighting for my life.

Jake Carrizal

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Now the Myanmar military is attacking and following them. They ran away after attacking the civilian targets, this is not an ethnic rights movement, this is a terrorist attack.

Zaw Htay

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Confidence is definitely there from a perspective of feeling like I can be more aggressive right now, the (Houston) win helps a lot. I can free myself up in my mind. I can start attacking pins and just play free golf. And when you're in that position, sometimes the game feels easy when sometimes it isn't.

Englishman Poulter

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

They just all three of them started attacking me, they’d work on my face while they held my wrist. I thought I was actually going to die. I was telling myself in my mind, I’m going to die now, this is it -- just keep fighting, just keep fighting.

Joshua Morrison

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Obama started feuding with opposition press during the campaign, kicking off reporters from his campaign plane after their outlets endorsed his opponent. Obama then spent his whole presidency attacking media critics -- CNBC, Fox News and Drudge among them -- yet somehow the major media didn't mind.

Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

If North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attacking anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us, they can be very, very nervous.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I think Senator Flake would serve Senator Flake constituents much better if Senator Flake was less focused on writing a book and attacking the president than passing legislation.

Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The radical left is following the lead of the liberal media and attacking Church Militant. Now, even having a men’s conference on how to be good husbands and fathers generates liberal protests, sometimes I wonder if the same protesters just move from one event to another – never actually holding down a real job.

Dan Gainor

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Some Taliban commanders say their main purpose in attacking and capturing a town, city or district center is to seize weapons and vehicles and not to keep control of these places as it is not feasible and could prove costly for them.

Rahimullah Yusufzai

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

The U.S.-supported coalition forces in Iraq are adhering to the rules of combat to the best extent possible, including not attacking human shields used by ISIS, iSIS forces have used the hesitancy on the part of the U.S. as a ploy to save themselves from attacks. This makes the task of battling ISIS very difficult.

Amit Kumar

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It then started looking like things were turning more violent. By the time I realized it was turning violent, someone had already snatched my phone and half of them had run out. I looked back again and saw that they were attacking this one family.

Read MoreBART spokeswoman Alicia Trost

Found on CNN
7 years ago

If you have surveillance, there's no reported positive effects, there's a really interesting theory that we build on that sort of tells why the Internet of Things and surveillance are sort of attacking us strongly.

Antti Oulasvirta

Found on CNN
7 years ago

I restrained her to stop her from attacking, i don’t know what else to do. I wanted it to stop.

Gable Tostee

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Using sacred Islam's name, exploiting it, this terrorist group which spills Muslim blood has gone as far as attacking the town where the mosque and blessed remains of our Prophet are located, daesh is a dagger plunged into the chest of Muslims. Whoever gives support to this group, whether out of sectarian fanaticism or another motive, commits the same sin.

President Tayyip Erdogan

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

On Monday I got a text from a friend who said, ‘Hey, I just saw you in the new Warren video attacking Trump.’ And I thought, ‘You've got to be kidding me,’ i watched the video, and to my shock and surprise, there I was.

Michael Levin

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

This is blatant foolishness and insanity. When he still could address the Bahraini people, Sheikh Isa Qassim... would advise against radical and armed actions, attacking Sheikh Isa Qassim means removing all obstacles blocking heroic Bahraini youths from attacking the regime.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

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