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Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. third-person singular simple present indicative form of assail.
Etymologies
- Middle English assailen, from Old French asalir, asaill-, from Vulgar Latin *assalīre, variant of Latin assilīre, to jump on : ad-, onto; see ad- + salīre, to jump; see sel- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“For -- justifying his exhortation, "Looking unto Jesus." consider -- by way of comparison with yourselves, so the Greek. contradiction -- unbelief, and every kind of opposition (Ac 28: 19). sinners -- Sin assails us.”
“It is widely assumed that this dilemma assails minorities everywhere, because they feel abandoned and marooned in the sea of majoritarianism but even majorities often are at a loss.”
“The time to worry will be when the same unwarranted self-pity assails Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.”
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“The pro-gun crowd assails college campuses as "gun-free zones" that allegedly leave students and faculty as sitting ducks, but the fact is that currently gun-free campuses are far safer than the rest of our gun-saturated country.”
The Huffington Post: Dennis A. Henigan: Packing For College: Laptop, Books, Ramen Noodles, Gun?
“Brunner reports that Didier, whose histrionic Tea Party rhetoric assails government spending, has received $273,000 in farm subsidies from the federal government since 1995. 2.”
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“He particularly assails the "unconstitutional" minimum wage law, first enacted in 1938.”
The Huffington Post: Stanley Kutler: THE TEA PARTY: DUPED SERVANTS OF POWER
“But the problem of the future assails not only the believer.”
“The pro-gun crowd assails "gun-free zones" that allegedly invite the violent to attack the unarmed, but the reality is that currently gun-free college campuses are far safer than the gun-saturated communities that surround them.”
The Huffington Post: Dennis A. Henigan: Keep Guns Off Campus
“It's called The Who Gives A F*** Where You Are Campaign and it assails only a portion of overzealous social networking behaviors -- the use of location-based social networking apps like FourSquare, GoWalla, and most recently, Facebook Places.”
The Huffington Post: Mike Gellman: Who Gives a F*** Where You Are
“The question he asked was very profound, and it is one that assails us through all phases of our lives.”
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