It was all right to put a bunch of ranchers onto horses, to call them Night Riders, to set out to attack the largest mining combination the country had ever seen if all they wanted was adventure.

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.

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.

A few days later it was learned that General Howe was planning an attack upon the American camp.

Morgan was ordered to attack the enemy, who had meantime moved to Edge Hill on the left of the Americans.

The position of the new camp was admirably selected and well fortified, its easily defensible nature being one good reason why Howe did not attack it.

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.

I was surprised and sorry to find in your issue of March 4 a long and detailed attack upon a book that had not yet been published.

But the attack was made from an advance copy.

In this case, then, the military objective was accomplished with an epidemic agent solely through the results secured in the initial attack.

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.

It was not even in writing Latin epigrams, sometimes bawdy ones, or in translating Lucian from Greek into Latin or in defending the study of Greek against the attack of conservative academics, or in attacking the conservative theologians who opposed Erasmus's philological study of the New Testament.

A British officer had come aboard and told him that in case of enemy air attack he was not to open fire until bombs were actually dropped.

The troopers knew an attack was coming, but they didn't know when, and they didn't know where.

Because of this diversionary attack the main group that had been pinned down on the hill was able to surge forward again.

So was the attack upon Charles E. Bohlen when Eisenhower appointed him Ambassador to Moscow.

He was invulnerable to attack, but he could be handled, Mickey knew, if he could be brought to make the first move.

One Republican senator told this correspondent that he was constantly being asked why he didn't attack the Kennedy administration on this score.

Mr. Hawksley said he was not critical of city residents for not knowing what to do or where to assemble in case of an air attack.

The Portland school board was asked Monday to take a positive stand towards developing and coordinating with Portland's civil defense more plans for the city's schools in event of attack.

It is sometimes portrayed as a popular movement, or as the product of a political attack on King Æthelred by former supporters of Edward.

In Digital: A Love Story, the Morris worm is portrayed as a cover story for a large-scale attack on ARPANET and several Bulletin Board Systems.

He was cast in a number of stark dramas, such as 1964's Fail-Safe, in which he portrayed Pentagon adviser Dr. Groeteschele, who urges all out nuclear attack on the Soviet Union in response to an accidental transmission of an attack signal to U. S. Air Force bombers, in the tense, and timely cold-war thriller.

An example of the sort of attack this portrayal was intended to defend against can be found in two orations of Lysias, Against Eratosthenes and Against Agoratus ; there, Theramenes is portrayed as treasonous and self-interested, doing tremendous harm to the Athenian cause through his machinations.

Nemo is devoted to his crew and grieves deeply when one of them happens to be killed, as is portrayed in the aftermath of the giant-squid attack in the Bahamas and the mysterious midnight encounter with a surface ship.

* There is no evidence in legitimate historical documents that shows that Kira Yoshinaka was the villain so often portrayed that would justify an attack on him in the Shogun's castle.

The first part, which traced the rise of the Nazis ( or " German Fascists " as Katz called them in conformity with Comintern practice, which forbade the use of the term Nazi ), portrayed the KPD as the only genuine anti-fascist force in Germany, and featured a bitter attack on the SPD.

On the comedy-drama Ally McBeal, lawyer John Cage portrayed by series lead Peter MacNicol would utter the city's name to break an attack of random stuttering.

However, the ferry is portrayed in the 2005 film War of the Worlds, when Martian tripods attack the town, the ferry, and refugees from New York City attempting to flee across the Hudson.

She drew more controversy after flooding in Taiwan, in which she made statements which were portrayed as an attack on Taiwanese aborigines for living in flood prone areas.

Yet in " The Day The Sky Fell In ", he is portrayed as a seven-year-old at the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Jerrold's liberal and radical perspective was portrayed in the magazine under the pseudonym ' Q ', which used satire to attack institutions of the day.

Although the opposition portrayed the shooting as part of a political campaign against the Democratic Party, it had every appearance of a revenge attack, and Mazreku was sentenced to eight years imprisonment by parliament.

The Spooks episode " Lesser Of Two Evils " depicts an attack on the station, which is portrayed as being a busy commuting point.

Depictions have also stated that Emma has a degree of telepathic immunity while in diamond form, though the extent of this immunity has been portrayed inconsistently as well, ranging from total shielding from psychic invasion to vulnerability to psychic attack.

Job is equally portrayed differently ; Satan is shown to directly attack Job, but fail each time due to Job's willingness to be patient, unlike the Biblical narrative where Job falls victim but retains faith.

Tora !, published in the October and November issues of Reader's Digest, and later expanded into At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story Of Pearl Harbor, portrayed the attack on Pearl Harbor, and is credited as the basis for the screenplay of the film Tora!

She portrayed the protagonist, an unnamed adulterous British mother who loses her husband and son in the attack.

Although commonly portrayed as being absolutely decisive, the Black Monday air attack was a mixed success.

: Father Jack recovers from his malaria and confusion, but Michael as narrator tells us that he died of a heart attack soon after the events portrayed in the play.

Often in literature, women are portrayed as safe from sexual or other attack when wearing a girdle, but suddenly vulnerable if it is missing or stolen.

In the film Jurassic Park, the dinosaur Dilophosaurus was portrayed with a fictional neck frill, which was raised during attack, similar to that of a frill-necked lizard.

The Cylon forces are portrayed as attacking the Colonies and destroying them utterly, first via fighter attack, and then by Cylon troops deployed to the surface, as depicted on the colony of Caprica.