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.

Pericles led 250 ships, originally intended to attack Cyprus, to their aid because it would further damage Persia.

The weapon may be further used to bog down an advancing army making them more vulnerable to counter attack by the defending force.

Analysis of the attack suggested that the Mujahideen Shura Council and Al-Qaeda in Iraq were responsible, and that the motivation was to provoke further violence by outraging the Shia population.

After he wrote an attack on Luther shortly after Luther had given him shelter when he was fleeing persecution, Luther had nothing further to do with him.

* Maintaining awareness of surroundings while dealing with the threat in order to look for escape routes, further attackers, objects that could be used to defend or help attack and so on.

If they are disturbed further, they may start an attack and bite.

The parties further pledged neutrality in the event of an attack against one another with the 1926 Treaty of Berlin.

# Decides that the United States of America, by certain attacks on Nicaraguan territory in 1983-1984, namely attacks on Puerto Sandino on 13 September and 14 October 1983, an attack on Corinto on 10 October 1983 ; an attack on Potosi Naval Base on 4 / 5 January 1984, an attack on San Juan del Sur on 7 March 1984 ; attacks on patrol boats at Puerto Sandino on 28 and 30 March 1984 ; and an attack on San Juan del Norte on 9 April 1984 ; and further by those acts of intervention referred to in subparagraph ( 3 ) hereof which involve the use of force, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to use force against another State ;

Cyril, however, used the opportunity to further attack Nestorius, who pleaded with Emperor Theodosius II to call a council so that all grievances could be aired.

The organizers of the meeting claimed it was not so much a fear of terrorist attack on the meeting itself, but a desire by many Commonwealth leaders to stay at home in case of any further crisis-making world events ( such as the commencement of overt military action in Afghanistan or elsewhere ).

" While the details of the attack are disputed — Michigan claimed it fired no shots and had only discharged a few musket rounds in the air as the Ohio group retreated — the battle further infuriated both Ohioans and Michiganders and brought the two sides to the brink of all-out war.

Further chemical attack by circulating water and later by acidic rainwater caused further weathering along the lines of these joints, resulting in the more or less complete decomposition of the granite into its constituent crystals in regions where the joints were closely spaced.

The battle proved indecisive, but it did ensure that the Norse were not able to mount a further attack that year.

In a further attack on the company, the map of Cuntinental Europe-given away free with Issue 118 and showing a large cartoon of stereotypes of the British and their neighbours over the relevant geographical areas-displayed the McDonald's logo on potentially insensitive locations, such as the Parthenon and the vicinity of the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

The decision to attack during the rainy season was held as further evidence of the government's incompetence.

The attack hastened a trend towards financial firms moving to midtown and contributed to the loss of business on Wall Street, due to temporary-to-permanent relocation to New Jersey and further decentralization with establishments transferred to cities like Chicago, Denver, and Boston.

This type of DDoS involved hardcoding the target IP address prior to release of the malware and no further interaction was necessary to launch the attack.

They did not, apparently, attack the smaller settlements further up the coast in Baugher's Bay or on Virgin Gorda.

Following a successful Vietcong hit and run attack on the US installations at Pleiku on February 7, 1965 ( where 7 Americans were killed and 109 wounded ), Humphrey returned from Georgia to Washington D. C., to attempt to prevent further escalation.

Meanwhile to the north-west at Mafeking, on the border with Transvaal, Colonel Robert Baden-Powell had raised two regiments of local forces amounting to some 1, 200 men in order to attack and create diversions if things further south went amiss.

Matters of dispute by the participants and writers and historians since the war have included the wisdom of pursuing an offensive strategy in the wake of the failed Nivelle Offensive, rather than waiting for the arrrival of the American armies in France, the choice to attack in Flanders over areas further south or the Italian front, the climate and weather in Flanders, Haig's selection of General Hubert Gough and the Fifth Army to conduct the offensive, debates over the nature of the opening attack between advocates of shallow and deeper objectives, the passage of time between the Battle of Messines and the opening attack of the Battles of Ypres, the extent to which the internal troubles of the French armies motivated British persistence in the offensive, the effect of mud on operations and the decision to continue the offensive in October, once the weather had broken and the human cost of the campaign on the soldiers of the German and British armies.