Forensic tests found no evidence that a sexual assault of any kind had occurred.

These assaults have occurred both during daylight hours and at night.

People may well disagree as to whether, for example, an assault has in fact occurred.

"You hope to bring his memory right up to the day the assault occurred?"

The assault occurred after he ordered her not to change a television channel.

The suspects, 13 to 16 years old, are all residents of the neighborhood where the assault occurred.

And so another assault on American shipping occurs without explanation.

She had only been in the country seven hours before the assault occurred.

Such an assault might have driven the man around the bend, though at the time it hadn't even occurred to me to try.

Such an assault on the skyline could not occur today.