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.

" In particular, a series of strips in which Dogbert worked as a talk radio host drew criticism from conservatives for his supposed attack on Rush Limbaugh ( which Adams denied in Seven Years of Highly Defective People ).

Dissatisfaction with older philosophical approaches had begun earlier and had produced other changes in society, such as the Protestant Reformation, but the revolution in science began when natural philosophers began to mount a sustained attack on the Scholastic philosophical program and supposed that mathematical descriptive schemes adopted from such fields as mechanics and astronomy could actually yield universally valid characterizations of motion and other concepts.

Despite his support for SBS, the Fraser government imposed stringent budget cuts on the national broadcaster, the ABC, which came under repeated attack from the Coalition for its supposed left-wing bias and for allegedly " unfair " or critical coverage on TV programs including This Day Tonight and Four Corners, and on the ABC's new youth-oriented radio station Double Jay ( 2JJ ).

The ringleaders of the insurrection had supposed that their attack would lead to a general revolt, but their choice of Dyett as a target robbed them of popular support, and the disturbance eventually fizzled.

He based his attack firstly on what were supposed to be the war aims – remedying the grievances of the Uitlanders and in particular the claim that they were wrongly denied the right to vote, saying " I do not believe the war has any connection with the franchise.

He is also impatient to fight the Slayer upon his initial arrival in Sunnydale ; the attack is supposed to coincide with the Night of St. Vigeous ( when a vampire's natural abilities are enhanced ), but he " couldn't wait " to go after the Slayer and recklessly leads a mass assault against Buffy at Sunnydale High, which fails and results in the deaths of many Aurelian vampires.

Due to intensive Changeling manipulation, this attack force was ambushed while assaulting an abandoned planet that was believed to be the supposed Founder homeworld, and was completely crushed.

Two letters ( Duae epistolae de republica ordinanda ), letters of political counsel and advice addressed to Caesar, and an attack upon Cicero ( Invectiva or Declamatio in Ciceronem ), frequently attributed to Sallust, are thought by modern scholars to have probably come from the pen of the rhetorician Marcus Porcius Latro, also the supposed author of a counter-invective attributed to Cicero.

According to the plans, the Polish Army was supposed to attack Russian Infantry Corps of the Tsar's Guard, which camped at the territory between Augustów and Ostrołęka.

Assaults south of town, which were supposed to be the main avenue of attack, were also mismanaged, and initial Union breakthroughs went unsupported.

Moreover, the game is supposed to start in the spring of 1942, but Japan is immediately in position to attack Hawaii again, while Germany is pressed well into the Soviet Union with an initially superior force.

In computer security, a covert channel is a type of computer security attack that creates a capability to transfer information objects between processes that are not supposed to be allowed to communicate by the computer security policy.

Wittmann had decided to participate in the attack as he believed the company commander who was supposed to lead the attack was too inexperienced.

Although Prévost's attack was supposed to coincide with the naval engagement, it was slow to get under way.

" The Goths thought that they were supposed to perform the usual federate ritual outside the walls of the Gallic capital ," writes Wolfram, " but they were rudely awakened from their daydreaming by an attack of Majorian and the ' Frankish ' Aegidius.

Word of the plans did not reach officials in America until after the attack was supposed to be launched.

The body of the legendary Eurystheus was also supposed to protect Athens from enemy attack, and in Thebes, that of the prophet Amphiaraus, whose cult was oracular and healing.

He was appointed by Governor Mike Huckabee in 1998 as State Banking Commissioner on what was supposed to be a " temporary " basis ; he remained in the post until shortly before his death from a heart attack in 2003, about two weeks before his seventieth birthday. White's time in the Banking Department was noted by his practice of visiting all Arkansas ' state-chartered banks at least once a year.

On being confronted with the Roman demands that he abort his attack on Alexandria, Antiochus played for time ; Popillius Laenas is supposed to have drawn a circle around the king in the sand with his cane, and ordered him not to move out of it until a firm answer had been given.

In case of war, the defenders were supposed to withstand a sustained attack for 12 hours after which a relief from the main units of the Polish Army were to arrive.

After arriving back at Washington, he was one of those who led the attack on the supposed incompetence of the leadership of the Union Army.

Saguntum fell before the winter of 219 – 218, and since the envoys were supposed to have arrived before Hannibal's attack, the latest possible date is early 219.

Its narrow stem with the protruding upper storeys is supposed to make it difficult to climb or attack.

The attack was carried out by an unknown supposed Palestinian group but it was generally assumed that this was commissioned and underwritten by Libya.