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

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

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

It is a direct assault on global trade.

BBC: Bristol Pound launched to keep trade in the city

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

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?