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onslaught

a sudden and severe onset of trouble (= attack) (military) an offensive against an enemy (using weapons) the attack began at dawn (= barrage, bombardment) the rapid and continuous delivery of linguistic communication (spoken or written) a barrage of questions a bombardment of mail complaining about his mistake

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BUT ALWAYS WILL OUR WHOLE NATION REMEMBER THE CHARACTER OF THE ONSLAUGHT AGAINST US.
A resolute onslaught, and the string will burst.
But I think Claire will stand up to the onslaught.
Well as an allegory it's very interesting but. do you have a remedy for this onslaught of murder and rape in our city?
I've seen how frail a civilisation is before the onslaught of a gust of really bad breath!
Can nothing stop this tomato onslaught?
Across this great nation, almost everyone has been affected in one way or another by this terrible tomato onslaught.
Any survivors of an initial onslaught would be four times more likely to suffer from leukemia, sterility, inherited disorders, birth defects and other conditions which wreck havoc on living cells.
Upon this battlement, in 1836 two hundred Texas volunteers including such heroes as Davy Crockett, Bill Travis, Jim Bowie fought off an onslaught of 4,000 Mexicans under the command of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana.
A man who can do that can plan my castle onslaught any day. - Let's go.
Ask them if they want to help save this country from the onslaught of integration.
Japan reels before an onslaught of massive U.S. War production and the improved skills of the American fighting man.
But I must warn you...that while I would gain your stability, you would experience the fierce onslaught of emotions unleashed by my condition.
Without help from satellites we could not prepare ourselves for the onslaught.
The Cossacks' duty is to defend their country as valiantly from the encroachments of the external and. and the onslaught of the external enemy.
There is not one law in any state in the Union protecting the public from the hysterical onslaught of revivalists.
The first onslaught was held back.
CAN NOTHING STOP THIS TOMATO ONSLAUGHT?
IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER BY THIS TERRIBLE TOMATO ONSLAUGHT.
When the police began circulating his photograph, Raskado left his farm and found his way to the bird sanctuary at Minsmere to continue his onslaught.
And the onslaught will begin.
And a man who can do that can plan my castle onslaught any day.
Ask them ifthey want to help save this country from the onslaught ofintegration.
This is wildly with a left and another right hand and another. And Jackson is driven into a corner and suddenly helpless against the onslaught.
Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders from the racial onslaught of the pig who wishes to brutalise our black leaders, rape our women, and destroy our black communities.
Our onslaught was met. What happened?
And so the world breathes somewhat easier today as it experienced a lull in the onslaught of disasters.
Our flanks are unable to withstand the onslaught of the Russians.
He must have out-thought Vizzini. A man who can do that can plan my castle onslaught any day.
Our purpose here is to protect our black leaders from the racial onslaught of the pig who wishes to brutalize our black leaders, rape our women, and destroy our black communities.
For the black fog of the powder. and the intensity and speed of the onslaught. often.
We'd have a better chance now than trying to stop an onslaught later.
As a woman, I am offended by the onslaught of these lawsuits.
Even Atlantis, with all its wonder, may not survive the onslaught.
Yet the nightly onslaught has little impact on bat numbers - by the morning the vast majority will be back in the safety of the cave.
It had to, it's my only defense against the verbal onslaught.
Satellite operators can also prepare for the onslaught with proper warning.

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Next, no government in the region loves Saddam, but all fear popular reaction to a third Western onslaught on an Islamic state, this time with much less clear justification than over Kuwait and in Afghanistan.
With the ability of Hezbollah to withstand the Israeli onslaught and the rise of Iran as a prospective nuclear power, Israel's existence is more endangered than at any time since its birth.
Santos could, therefore, have been tempted to choose the Sri Lanka way - a ruthless military onslaught to defeat the insurgents, at the price of major human-rights violations and the destruction of civilian communities.
They will come later, and will depend on whether George Bush and Tony Blair can justify their onslaught on a largely defenseless population.
In the meantime, even if the referendum is held and eventually lost under the combined onslaught of bureaucrats, politicians and union bosses, the modernization revolution is alive.
This may be the result of, among other things, the increasing and now relentless onslaught of advertising and public relations.
If America's highly trained engineers and computer specialists are unable to withstand the onslaught of outsourcing, what about those who are even less trained?
But the world saw in Russia's onslaught against so puny an antagonist a thuggish state determined to recapture its lost empire.
Rome did not succumb to the rise of another empire, but to the onslaught of waves of barbarians.
When the exchange rate soars as a result of resource booms, countries cannot export manufactured or agriculture goods, and domestic producers cannot compete with an onslaught of imports.
How could a small militia, numbering less than a few thousand combatants, survive the onslaught of the Middle East's most formidable military machine?
And it is asking how individuals can maintain their psychological stability in an era of rapid change, marked by urbanization and an onslaught of global communication in a society that had no televisions until a decade ago.
The onslaught on Israel was indirectly encouraged by the now widespread perception that, with Obama in the White House, America's unwavering support for the Jewish state can no longer be taken for granted.
AQAP is firmly rooted in this region as well, implying the possibility that local residents will seek its help in defending against an expected Houthi onslaught.
Similarly, Libya's Muammar el-Qaddafi exposed himself to a NATO onslaught by relinquishing his WMDs.

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