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In its defensive formulations, the theory will attack conscious change on the grounds of the independent existence of the community.
The distracted Miriam would agree to a settlement through her legal representative, then change her mind and make another attack on Wright as a person.
In answer to The Crisis, Swift produced The Publick Spirit Of The Whigs, his most extensive and bitter attack on his old friend.
In his comment on these laws Steele sounds all the usual notes of current Whig propaganda, ranging from a criticism of the Tory peace to an attack on the dismissal of Marlborough ; ;
Then he launches into an attack on the Tory ministers, whom he calls the `` New Converts '' ; ;
From his first bout with the canny Woodruff, Pike had learned that it was better not to attack him directly, so, harping on the theme that the cost of printing was too high, he condemned the governor for permitting such a state of affairs to exist.
The attack started on October 2, 1643, and the Gortonists held out for a day and a night.
What is not so well known, however, and what is quite important for understanding the issues of this early quarrel, is the kind of attack on literature that Sidney was answering.
Aroused by what they considered an evil influence, some members of the clergy, joined by city authorities, merchants, and master craftsmen, began the attack on the plays and the actors for what they called `` the abuses of the art '', but by 1582 some of them began to denounce the whole idea of acting.
Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.
But the real beginnings of this development in him go back to the opposing of grammar school, and probably if it had not been this occasion and these Latin lines it would have been some others, such as the first prolusion, that set off this streak in him of unbridled and scathing verbal attack on an enemy.
Through all this raving, Krim is performing a traditional and by now boring rite, the attack on intelligence, upon the largely successful attempt of the magazines he castigates to liberate American writing from local color and other varieties of romantic corn.
I grant that the dog may not be really protective, based on his training, but if you were roaming the streets looking for a purse to snatch or a young lady to molest, how quick would you be to attack a person strolling with a dog??
The United States was engaged in a military attack on a peaceful, orderly people governed by a regime that had proved itself the most pro-Western and anti-Communist within any of the new nations -- the only place in Africa, moreover, where a productive relationship between whites and blacks had apparently been achieved.
Not only, as we know, did Chou En-lai publicly treat Khrushchev's attack on Albania as `` something that we cannot consider as a serious Marxist-Leninist approach '' to the problem ( i.e., as something thoroughly dictatorial and `` undemocratic '' ), but the Albanian leaders went out of their way to be openly abusive to Khrushchev, calling him a liar, a bully, and so on.
The Navy, on April 25, announced it is bringing back the carrier Shangri-La from the Mediterranean, increasing to four the number of attack carriers in the vicinity of Cuba.
Thus, an enemy would probably use this weapon for attack on static population centers such as large cities.
Our major problem is what an enemy might accomplish in an initial attack on a target.
On the other hand, a similar attack might have been made on City B whose population was known to be lousy.
There was no extra horse so it was left to his comrades who, though numbering in the fifties, had stood around on the hillside nearby without firing a shot during the entire attack.
In transit or on station, it may not be possible to attack the submarines until commission of an overt act.
Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.
Mickey's eyes fixed on the other's feet, which would first betray the moment and direction of an attack.

attack and Chadian
" This attack was the final straw that led to the declaration of war by Chad and the alleged deployment of the Chadian airforce into Sudanese airspace, which the Chadian government denies.
Investigators found that a bomb placed in the cargo hold by Chadian rebels backed by Libya was responsible for the explosion ; in 1999 a French court convicted six Libyans, including the former Libyan intelligence chief, Abdullah Senussi, in absentia, of planning and implementing the attack.
Initial speculation over which groups might have been responsible for destroying UTA Flight 772 centered upon Islamic Jihad, who were quick to claim responsibility for the attack, and the " Secret Chadian Resistance " rebel group, which opposed president Hissen Habré.
it is speculated that the attack was Organized by members of the Chadian rebel Popular Front for Recovery ( FPR ) led by ' General ' Baba Ladde.

attack and town
The solution to the puzzle as well as explaining the historical circumstances leading to the choice of the Agri Decumates as a defensive point and the concentration of Germans there are probably to be found in the German attack on the Gallic fortified town of Vesontio in 58 BC.
Once through the tollbooth, Lamarr's villains attack the fake town, which Bart boobytrapped with several dynamite bombs.
While recovering from the stroke and heart attack, Diddley came back to his home town of McComb, Mississippi, in early November 2007 for the unveiling of a plaque devoted to him on the National Blues Trail stating that he was " acclaimed as a founder of rock and roll.
The attack killed at least 243 people and caused immense damage to the town.
* 1995 – In the Bosnian War, under the command of General Ratko Mladić, Serbia begins its attack on the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, and kills more than 8000 Bosniaks, in what then-UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali called " the worst crime on European soil since the Second World War ".
To honour those women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, Ramon Berenguer IV, then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet ( orden de la Hacha ) in 1149.
On September 12, 1939 she was in the town of Końskie when 30 civilians were executed there, in retaliation for an alleged attack on German soldiers.
* 1988 – Halabja poison gas attack: The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
* 1944 – World War II: Thirty members of the Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
* 1885 – Rock Springs massacre: in Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 White miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
* 1901 – Philippine-American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own, in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
Assyria n attack on a town with archers and a wheeled battering ram ; Assyrian Relief, North-West Palace of Nimrud ( room B, panel 18 ) ; 865 – 860 BC.
Oxford was a secure town, protected by walls and the river Isis, but Stephen led a sudden attack across the river, leading the charge and swimming part of the way.
In late 1780, as Governor he prepared Richmond for attack by moving all military supplies to a foundry located five miles outside of town.
After the attack, McCoy walks towards a town and finds an abandoned store, where he takes candy bars and other provisions while gunfire is heard in the distance.
One month after the attack, soldiers force their way into the town hall basement and find the bodies of the emergency operations staff, who have all died of suffocation.
On 13 November 1966, Israel launched a major raid against the Jordanian administered West Bank town of as-Samu, in response to a Fatah-implemented roadside bomb attack which had killed three members of the Israeli security forces near the southern Green Line border.
According to Said Aburish, the government of Jordan and a number of Fatah commandos informed Arafat that large-scale Israeli military preparations for an attack on the town were underway, prompting fedayeen groups, such as George Habash's newly formed group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) and Nayef Hawatmeh's breakaway organization the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ), to withdraw their forces from the town.
* September 28 – Philippine – American War: Balangiga massacre: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty United States soldiers in a surprise attack in the town of Balangiga on Samar Island.
* March 6 – WWII: Soviet Army planes attack Narva, Estonia, destroying almost the entire old town.
* January 6 – Second Boer War: Boers attack the town of Ladysmith, South Africa, killing over 1, 000 people.
* September 2 – The Rock Springs Massacre occurs in Rock Springs, Wyoming ; 150 white miners attack their Chinese coworkers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.
** The Canberra Times documents the attack of an unknown spider species upon the Chilean town of Antofagasta.

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