assault against
Frequency: 6.89.2 per million words
Used to specify the victim.
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Examples (10)
- Better street lighting has helped reduce the number of assaults against women.
- He was charged with a violent assault against a police officer.
- The new law was seen as an assault against free speech.
- The report detailed a series of brutal assaults against minority groups.
- We must unite to stop any form of assault against the elderly.
- Any future assault against our journalists will be met with swift condemnation.
- The hostile takeover bid was a direct assault against the company's founding principles.
- Is this new policy a deliberate assault against the working class?
- An investigation has been launched into the alleged assault against the prisoner.
- Many believe that an assault against one is an assault against all.