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direct attack

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meanings of directand attack


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direct
adjective
uk /daɪˈrekt/ us /daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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attack
noun
uk /əˈtæk/ us /əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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Examples of direct attack


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The time has now come, perhaps, for a more directattack on the possible genetic and environmental influences.
These procedures were a directattack on the occult sciences.
In light of the tightening of state control over both the press and associational activity in the mid-1920s, however, mounting a directattack on licensing would have been dangerous.
The pensions tax was a directattack on saving and sent consumers the message that they are better off spending their money than saving it.
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This is a directattack on one class in the community, and that the largest, and the class that can least afford it.
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This is recognised by doctors as a directattack on their professional freedom and that of their patients, which is just as important.
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There is no directattack on interest rates and there is therefore no direct relief for individual borrowers.
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Therefore, the stations themselves are reasonably safe from the possibility of a directattack.
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That is a directattack on civil servants.
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This is a directattack on the married woman.
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They could not make a directattack on a particular country, but they did a very wise thing.
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There can be no doubt that this country is safer today from directattack than for many decades.
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The present law is a directattack upon family life in that way.
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It is a directattack on our citizens, on all of us.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Of course, the fact that there are innocent victims represents a directattack on human rights.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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