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When Zhu Rongji was in office, he once assailed the US politicians: how much can China earn from OEM toys for you?

He also assailed tribalism, which had, he said, "for a long stretch derailed" his own Kenyan father's career.

A mugger assailed him on the dark street .

I had no sooner got off the ship than I was assailed by a man who wanted to sell me a diamond ring.

But he had no sooner entered the next bend of that obscure and winding avenue than the most lamentable, lusty cries assailed him.

IT TAKES a special genius in politics to be assailed by both sides of an argument and receive no credit at all for standing in the middle.

She clapped her hand over my eyes before she let me inside the kitchen. I was immediately assailed by the scent.

The adherents of the new learning were assailed with every sort of ridicule .

Judging by the thoughts which assailed me, it must have been a long night for Armand.

Other Democrats and the main auto labor union assailed the deal as unfair, saying workers were going to have to concede too much.

It assailed her with all the violence of her fervid imagination.

In the early years of the 21st century a frail old woman totters around her London home, assailed by memories that rise up unbidden.

She felt faint, assailed as she was by the sudden suspicion that everything she saw was unreal.

Cole had never seen such an assertive killer before, she repeatedly assailed the guards, and tried to asphyxiate her cell mate.

The senators assailed the President on the subject of the treaty between the two countries.

After her disappointing exam results, she was assailed by worries about her career.

It is assailed by nightmares and its most dangerous dreams, each one given murderous form by the power of ancient and terrible gods.

The moment they slit the stomach open, a foul odor assailed all of us as the shark's food spilled on the sand.

It made an enormous sacrifice for Arab nationalism, but it was assailed by the radicals then dominating the nationalist movement.

The enemy plane assailed our defence position.

Ziqian spent the whole night arguing with one netizen who assailed him with insults. He was left feeling tired and puzzled.

Malfurion made significant progress in his studies before he was assailed by a disturbing vision.

Fear assailed her at the thought of that scene.

As soon as the young man returned home, his parents assailed him with questions about the interview.

The country was assailed by the enemy .

Master-poet, master-painter, master-workman , each in his turn is assailed, and each holds his laurels through the ages.

He was assailed by his political opponent.

The unaffordable principle of universal welfare has been assailed with a means-test for child benefit.

He was assailed as an oppressor of the people, who ground the faces of the poor.

Bill Clinton had a nose that glowed red, almost to luminousness, as his allergies assailed him.

Through this, the author assailed the unfair society in an ironical and angry way.

In the larger debate over government spending, Republican Dan Burton assailed President Obama's spending plans.

When the ass saw that the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his hells (2).

Sure, this magnificent animal is being assailed by rising temperatures and vanishing habitat.

We eat something which we have been told is indigestible, and immediately we are assailed with pains.

The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, assailed, scaled, and never captured.

I was assailed by a man who wanted to sell me a diamond ring.

Mrs Bracegirdle passes on. Bilbo's ears are assailed by a familiar strident voice.

At the same time, facing western cultures, he boldly brought them in and then critically assailed them.

Soon we were assailed by the garishlights of New York.

We had to find within ourselves the moral stamina to persevere while our society was assailed by doubt .

FIVE months after a tsunami and nuclear meltdown assailed Japan, the economy has been pummelled by fresh blows.

His patrols halted the raiding parties: hunger assailed the Danish army.

Jimmy Carter, who brokered peace between Israel and Egypt 30 years ago, assailed Mr Netanyahu for raising new obstacles to peace.

The proposal was assailed by the opposition party.

The victim has been assailed with repeated blows on the head and body.

Not long ago companies with cash piles were assailed by corporate activists to return money to shareholders.

Paul was assailed with the problem between his girlfriend.

The police were assailed with rocks.

HBO is assailed by competition from old-media peers and new-media upstarts.

The policemen were assailed by a shower of stones.

The visiting president was assailed with stones and eggs.

She was assailed by doubts.

She has been assailed for being lightweight, invisible and distracted by internal wrangling.

He was assailed with questions after his lecture.

The audience assailed the speaker with jeers.

George W. Bush was assailed for starting a needless war in Iraq.

He was assailed with questions after the lecture.

All sorts of problems assailed us suddenly.

a member of the jury assailed by doubts.

Anyone who does commit the solecism of talking or writing about class in America is assailed at once by a problem of definition.

of mowed grass assailed my nostrils.

He was assailed with worries .

At any rate, Mr Obama and other Democrats assailed the idea.

For the first time a feeling of uneasy doubt assailed him.

Eg. He has been assailed by bad breaks all these years.

A French fortress is assailed by an American activist investor

and when assailed by difficulties, they refuse to be beguiled into surrender;

only one terrible doubt sometimes assailed his mind

England, France and Sardinia assailed Russia in the Crimean war in defence of Turkey;

an area assailed by enemy forces from both directions;

China Economy be Assailed by High Petroleum Price

a novel assailed by critics;

a man assailed by doubts