By the time the makers of cigarettes were fighting against legislation on secondary smoking and the makers of chlorofluorocarbons against regulations to protect the ozone layer, their efforts had coalesced into a general attack on the environmental movement and the regulatory bodies it had brought into being.
Legend has it that he even intervened personally to halt a planned Nazi attack on a Jewish ghetto, threatening an SS general.
In 1998, weeks after General Abacha died of a heart attack, his wife was stopped at a Nigerian airport reportedly carrying 38 pieces of luggage stuffed with foreign currency.
When faced with a hack attack, no corporate general counsel would ever authorize his company to employ cyber ninjas to hack back at the hackers out of concern for legal liabilities.
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Her strategy was to drown out the campaign of Jerry Brown, a former governor and current attorney-general but a pauper by comparison, with constant and ubiquitous attack ads, forcing him either to spend his money early or to leave her attacks unanswered.
General Franks agreed to a much bolder attack than he had originally intended.
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The Democrats will attack it relentlessly in a general election should Cain be nominated with it still hanging around his neck.
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So that British General Montgomery was able to deliver a smashing attack from the North.
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John Whiting, tax specialist at Pricewaterhouse Coopers, has been following closely the representations made to the minister responsible, the Paymaster General, Dawn Primarolo, which include a joint attack from the Chartered Institute of Taxation, the Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Law Society.
They attack software which only seems to execute a general idea.
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Iksanov, the general director, says the attack is the result of a lawless atmosphere within the dance company he says has been created by Tsiskaridze.
General Jose Ornella said Mr Chavez had died of a massive heart attack, and in his final moments had said he wanted to carry on living.
General Petraeus reversed his original attribution of the attack to a mob protest when he appeared before a congressional intelligence committee last Friday, telling members that the CIA did, in fact, know that terrorists were responsible from the very beginning.
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The day following the attack, on 10 October, the Director-General issued a press release denouncing the attempted murder.
French General Maginot never contemplated that a future opponent might learn from the past and attack differently where defenses were most vulnerable.
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The Secretary-General then paid a solemn visit to the Oslo site of the 22 July bomb attack, and also to Oslo Cathedral, where he expressed condolences and solidarity.
By pre-arrangement, and by way of compromise, the prime minister has chosen to attack the Tories' general anti-Europeanism, rather than make a robust case for the merits of the euro.
In 1991 Dana Gioia, a poet (and former marketing manager for General Foods), set off a fierce debate in American poetry circles with an attack on American academia for turning poetry into a smug, producer-driven lobby, concerned only with its own survival and indifferent to the fact that it had alienated a wider audience.
Translation: I had inherited two bad copies of the genetic misfire, so my risk of an early heart attack--a myocardial infarction--is 70% greater than for the general population.
But it was McCain's attack on Senator Obama, it seemed to me, that signaled the start of a general election theme here.
Federal agents have "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, " David Kris, assistant attorney general for national security, said in a written statement.
In a statement, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said he was "appalled" by the attack in Gumuruk, and called on "the government of South Sudan to bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice".
And general atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and heart failure.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the Nasuwt, which is meeting in Bournemouth, said there had been a "relentless attack" on teachers and that government policies were damaging children's education.
However, federal agents have "no specific information regarding the timing, location or target of any planned attack, " David Kris, the assistant attorney general for national security, said in a statement announcing the arrests Saturday night.
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