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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
assail .
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Examples
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For -- justifying his exhortation, "Looking unto Jesus." consider -- by way of comparison with yourselves, so the Greek. contradiction -- unbelief, and every kind of opposition (Ac 28: 19). sinners -- Sin assails us.
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It is widely assumed that this dilemma assails minorities everywhere, because they feel abandoned and marooned in the sea of majoritarianism but even majorities often are at a loss.
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But the problem of the future assails not only the believer.
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Brunner reports that Didier, whose histrionic Tea Party rhetoric assails government spending, has received $273,000 in farm subsidies from the federal government since 1995. 2.
“There is No Politically Correct Way to Clean Up this Country.” « PubliCola 2010
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But the problem of the future assails not only the believer.
New Releases 2009
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But the problem of the future assails not only the believer.
"The basic form of Christian faith is not: I believe something, but I believe you." 2009
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The pro-gun crowd assails college campuses as "gun-free zones" that allegedly leave students and faculty as sitting ducks, but the fact is that currently gun-free campuses are far safer than the rest of our gun-saturated country.
Dennis A. Henigan: Packing For College: Laptop, Books, Ramen Noodles, Gun? Dennis A. Henigan 2011
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He particularly assails the "unconstitutional" minimum wage law, first enacted in 1938.
Stanley Kutler: THE TEA PARTY: DUPED SERVANTS OF POWER Stanley Kutler 2010
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The time to worry will be when the same unwarranted self-pity assails Cameron, Clegg and Osborne.
Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart | Nick Cohen 2012
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But the problem of the future assails not only the believer.
It "deals with the largest issues, and does so in a way..." 2009
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