Abbas says the call was evidence the group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan had planned the assault from South Waziristan with the intention of taking hostages in order to free captured militants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

The American Civil Liberties Union has said that full body scans amount to a "humiliating" assault on the dignity of passengers that citizens in a free nation should not have to tolerate.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Mr Romney set the tone in his post-defeat address, accusing Newt Gingrich of aligning himself with President Obama in a "frontal assault on free enterprise".

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Yet everywhere you look, free trade is under assault.

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And the fact is, when standards like these have been proposed in the past, opponents have often warned that they would be an assault on business and free enterprise.

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