This short, steel, truncheon-like weapon was capable of meeting a full-blown attack from a sword-wielding samurai.

With both of these anti-infection mechanisms launching full-blown attacks at once, the virus can't escape.

"When that failed," he continued, "they launched a full-blown public political attack."

More bravado than outright rebellion, those little displays of irritation have become a full-blown attack now.

Their plan is to use this anthrax to engineer a full-blown attack against the US government.

A full-blown attack may occur and results in complete muscle paralysis with postural collapse and possible injury.

His dagger at the ready, Worf decided on a full-blown, direct, frontal attack.

It took five hospitalizations and a full-blown attack - called a flare - before Lenaki was finally diagnosed.

But then, before he could go into a full-blown attack, something altogether out of the ordinary distracted him.

This is a full-blown attack by the executive on the judiciary.