• There is no direct assault, logically proceeding from issue to issue, with facts marshalled in a scholarly or quasi-legal fashion.

    ECONOMIST: Farming and history

  • On the streets, the demonstrations have evolved from a general call for greater rights into a direct assault on the Western-backed monarchy.

    NPR: Talks To End Bahrain Crisis Begin Amid Mistrust

  • And lower PC shipments is a direct assault on the bottom line at Microsoft, which rings the cash register with every PC sale.

    FORBES: Connect

  • The idea of jazz as subversion is particularly European and in the former Soviet Union, jazz was even used as a direct assault on the system.

    ECONOMIST: Our pick of the best, including music by Abdullah Ibrahim

  • Google announced, in a blog post, that it would launch an operating system for personal computers, thus opening a direct assault on Microsoft, which has dominated the market for years.

    ECONOMIST: Business this week

  • And like the Supreme Court's decision to hear the Green Movement's case, Weinstein's decision not to defend Galant's appointment was a direct assault at the foundation of Israel's democratic system.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Yoav Galant's depressing defeat

  • It is a direct assault on global trade.

    BBC: Bristol Pound launched to keep trade in the city

  • Thanks to Senator John McCain's courageous and steadfast efforts to protect the culture of the military from this direct assault, Mr. Obama's pandering to the radical homosexual agenda failed before and seems doomed to fail during the next few weeks.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Politicizing the Pentagon

  • In late June, Lai fired his opening salvo in a direct assault on the giants with a splashy opening for adMart, a home-delivery shopping service that might just be Hong Kong's most ambitious e-commerce effort to date (the "a-d" stands for Apple Daily).

    CNN: Groceries to go

  • Capitalizing upon the tragedy that savagely took the lives of 20 children and 7 others in Newtown, Connecticut, Senator Feinstein is introducing a gun ban bill which has been in the works for over a year which represents a direct assault upon Second Amendment rights.

    FORBES: Senator Feinstein's All-Out Assault On Gun Rights

  • Because right after he said that the US needs to end the "spiral of division, " he recalled his speech in Egypt in June 2009 when he spoke at the Brotherhood controlled Al Azhar University and made sure that Brotherhood members were in the audience in a direct diplomatic assault on US ally Hosni Mubarak.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Obama's abandonment of America

  • While U.S. forces "provided limited technical support, " they "took no direct part in the assault on the compound where it was believed the French citizen was being held hostage, " the president explained.

    CNN: U.S. supported France's failed hostage rescue in Somalia

  • United States forces provided limited technical support to the French forces in that operation, but took no direct part in the assault on the compound where it was believed the French citizen was being held hostage.

    WHITEHOUSE: The White House

  • At least four Palestinians have been killed as a direct result of the ground assault, Palestinian medical sources said, bringing the death toll in Gaza to 460 since the conflict erupted December 27.

    CNN: At least 4 Palestinians killed in Israeli ground assault

  • We cannot effectively discuss the issue of sexual assault in Black communities without acknowledging the direct war that was waged against Black women through rape during slavery and the Jim Crow era.

    FORBES: Black Women, Sexual Assault and the Art of Resistance

  • On the Palestinian side, the car-bomb that exploded in West Jerusalem on October 1st, the work of Islamic Jihad, was in direct contravention of the ceasefire hurriedly declared by Yasser Arafat in the wake of the terrorist assault on America.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and the Palestinians

  • Even if deans and faculty could overcome their propensity to conduct due-process deficient investigations and prosecutions of sexual assault and rape, universities would still confront Office for Civil Rights-imposed requirements that direct them, after police investigations, to proceed with their own.

    WSJ: Peter Berkowitz: Is Yale University Sexist?

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