And so many experts regard the offensive, though more violent than many past attacks, as a carefully timed signal.

The lurker's rising howl tore open the scars of past attacks.

I didn't trust the scanners after the past attacks.

Amnesty must forgive only past attacks, and cannot appear to sanction or legitimize future ones.

They peeled off their clothes to reveal shrapnel scars from past attacks.

Just as in the past attacks, the motive for yesterday's bomb was unknown, the police said.

Police officials have often cited common crime to explain for past attacks against human rights workers.

Already she has accused him of hiding some dark truth about past terrorist attacks.

What about France's past attack on the Greenpeace ship?

After past attacks on Israelis, his police tended to hold dozens of Islamic militants only to release them in short order.