| Against the wine Villa upped their game but had to withstand some fierce Mill onslaughts before capturing the points. |
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| United by outlook as well as professional background, the comics rarely disagree about the targets of their scornful onslaughts. |
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| Once again women and the feminine will be targets for onslaughts of limitation and repression. |
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| The scores in the match came tumbling from the often-repeated sheer attacking onslaughts so frequently launched at blistering pace by both teams. |
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| Sabotage could range from pinprick attacks on individual weapons or machines to full-scale onslaughts on formed bodies of troops. |
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| From time immemorial there have been friendly migrations and unfriendly onslaughts on the Kerala society, mostly through the sea. |
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| Cultural and civil liberty activists ought to unite and fight to resist these onslaughts on basic fundamental freedom, he said. |
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| Chapter 5 turns to the medieval world, which brought new onslaughts on the forest. |
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| The onslaughts on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are being likened to Pearl Harbor, and the comparison is just. |
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| Speculative onslaughts on the pound were resisted only at the expense of deflationary domestic policies. |
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| The blue bill shows how the authorities used concessions on trivial matters to conceal onslaughts on key issues. |
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| The trust lets you stand as a bulwark against any onslaughts on the papers' editorial freedom. |
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| Side by side they sat, protected from the worst onslaughts of the elements by the rocky overhang and by the side outcropping. |
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| Tool's songs encompassed sullen calm, rapid-fire onslaughts, spacious chords and nimble-fingered counterpoint. |
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| But because onslaughts can stem from spoofed internet addresses, not all companies can prepare for or afford such mitigation. |
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| But the bottom line is that the foundations of secularism and equality before the law that Nehru laid have withstood the worst of onslaughts on them. |
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| Again the Elephants fought back and following a series of onslaughts on the Bulldogs' tryline the referee awarded a penalty try after Peach was obstructed. |
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| As a result of fierce Hungarian onslaughts from the north, Bulgaria lost important territories beyond the Danube, including the rich Transylvania. |
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| Further onslaughts from that quarter and from Iran's politically powerful Revolutionary Guard are guaranteed. |
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| To survive those onslaughts means investing in a redundant offsite strategy in addition to local backup. |
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| These units would be tasked with protecting us against the continuing threatening onslaughts of nature rather than against human beings. |
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| The onslaughts of human activity on natural and cultural resources are never, or seldom, evaluated in financial terms. |
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| First of all comes care of our general health so as to build up a strong constitution that will be able to cope with particular onslaughts. |
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| The onslaughts mounted by European industry against the proposals are intolerable. |
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| The environment has clearly always been under attack by humanity, with some of these onslaughts sweeping away civilisations. |
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| From the onslaughts of blast-fishing, from the conversion of traditional fishing and collecting grounds into industrial production plants. |
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| The mother faith sought to repel these onslaughts as effectively as possible by calling attention to what she regarded as their errors. |
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| Québec is about to withstand the onslaughts of the British troops that took Louisbourg the previous summer. |
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| Five hours later in Esfahan, Iranian Hazfi Cup winners Sepahan survived a series of onslaughts from tournament debutants Kawasaki Frontale. |
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| But if in place of these we take another kind of humanism derived from a naive mysticism or naturalism, the onslaughts have been even fiercer. |
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| Despite the forced resignation of the chief justice in March, and verbal onslaughts on the judges delivered by the justice minister, the judiciary is standing up admirably to Mr Mugabe's bullying. |
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| Their fizzing, euphoric melodies are still present, but this time they're pummelled by onslaughts of evil percussion – full-frontal assaults that snarl up the frequencies. |
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| Direct human intervention, such as nest robbing, trapping, or shooting, was ruled out as the primary cause, as Peregrines had been subjected to these onslaughts for hundreds of years. |
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| We have learned ways to prepare for these onslaughts and how to ensure that our spokespeople are briefed and ready with the messages that we feel necessary to convey. |
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| There are onslaughts on farm income from left, right and centre. |
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| Democracy is threatened by dictatorship, and the gospel of human fraternity winces before the onslaughts of theories of racial supremacies. |
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| But it has little effect on the grid's overall ability to handle weather-related onslaughts that hit wide areas or a big cyber-attack. Microgrids, with their own electricity-generating capacity, are a better bet. |
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| For thousands of years these barrier islands have survived onslaughts of wind and sea. |
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| This resulted in more economic hardship and the collapse of the military in the face of determined onslaughts by guerrilla forces in the north. |
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| They need to be brooded, or kept warm by a parent sitting on them, frequently, to protect them from the cold and the onslaughts of numerous mosquitos. |
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| Some families have taken to the rooftops of their homes, or to their neighbours' rooftops, where they are without protection from the alternating onslaughts of searing sunshine and cold rain. |
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| The violent radicalisation of individuals and groups in recent years has shown up one of the greatest weaknesses in our legal system and represented one of the greatest onslaughts on our democratic institutions. |
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| In fact, experience indicates that such onslaughts strengthen, not weaken, the resolve of the people to resist aggression, occupation, intimidation and terror. |
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| In the previous three showdowns, a conventional-armed North Korea gallantly stood up to the nuclear-armed U. S. Kim Jong Il also ordered war games simulating full-scale onslaughts on the American forces in South Korea. |
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| These women have been surviving the onslaughts of life and destiny. |
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| Shah Ashraf halted both the Russian and Turkish onslaughts, but a brigand chief, Nādr Qolī Beg, defeated the Afghans at Dāmghān in October 1729 and drove them from Persia. |
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| While health is often thought of as fragile and subject to many onslaughts, it is, in fact, a ruggedly guarded state protected by a host of highly efficient internal mechanisms. |
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| It is an obligation upon us to defend the Sunnah and his way of life against such false onslaughts. This is part of the obligation that falls upon our shoulders when we make our testimony of faith. |
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| The St. Lawrence gradually succumbed to these numerous onslaughts. |
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| After their onslaughts on Gabrieli and Merullo for the unjoyfulness of their wedding music at Venice, no doubt the academicians felt bound to give Euridice a happy ending. |
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