His whole life was a sustained assault upon their grim piety.

Neither he nor Kor had expected such a sustained assault.

Their energy sources were engineered to provide short directed bursts, not for a sustained assault on a large target.

It is also a sustained and brutal assault on the voice.

Time to mount a sustained assault on the right-hand pedal.

No president has mounted a more sustained and deliberate assault on the nation's environment.

Then as now, public spending was under sustained and necessary assault.

This year saw the most sustained assault on free expression in the UK for two decades.

Sporadic gun fire could be heard throughout the evening, although there was no sustained assault on the hospital.

In Israel, the level of sustained assault was such that a powerful response was necessary.