The function of the heavy cavalry was to protect the light armored infantry and artillery, while the other corps delivered random, surprise assaults on the enemy.

It can have been no random assault," he noted, "for you say the culprit knew you to be a Jew.

Ending random sonic assaults on the senses is, well, a sound idea.

Sometimes he felt like a bloody baboon, his most primitive responses unleashed without warning, by some random assault of odor.

That our levels of brutal murders, armed robberies, random assaults, crackpot violence and gang rape had nothing innocent about them.

The authorities have yet to describe any possible motive for the shootings, the sixth seemingly random assault at an American school in the last 20 months.

If it was a random assault, you never would have gotten a call after the fact.

Would it be less of a shrill, random assault and more tightly constructed?

During my last year of college and for a little while thereafter, I fell victim to a number of random assaults and muggings.

The attack was apparently the last of a burst of random assaults by the youths in the northern reaches of the 840-acre park.