"assault" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Most were detained in a prison camp, where they were subjected to almost constant rape and sexual assaults, torture and other abuses.
- Police indicate that the women, while held prisoner, were subjected to starvation, torture, numerous sexual assaults and other forms of abuse.
- On 17 November the battalion was subjected to repeated Chinese assaults.
- Since his return al-Khawaja has been subjected to detention, unfair trial, and physical assaults as a result of his human rights activities.
- There is currently a lawsuit in the US military in which the plaintiffs claim to have been subjected to sexual assaults in the military.
- The youths were held prisoner at the Mandela home where they were subjected to vicious assaults.
- Nine months ago, she was subjected to repeated serious assaults by a friend of her foster family.
- Task force members heard "poignant and disturbing" testimony from people who had been burned out of their homes, harassed in schools, subjected to assaults.
- At the moment of its crowning political success, Head Start, the lavishly praised preschool program, is suddenly being subjected to quibbles, criticisms and outright assaults.
- Approximately 1.9 million women are subjected to physical assaults of one kind or another every year.
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