But the price that is exacted is a wholesale assault on human dignity and personal freedom.

"This is a wholesale assault on these programs and people shouldn't be fooled."

Gambling took a serious turn, promises of licentious liaisons were kept, and wholesale assaults were made on the palace wine cellars.

Central to the movement were an insistence that immigrants speak no language other than English, a wholesale assault on immigrants' culture and customs, and the deportation of alien "radicals" who expressed unpopular views.

It is an orthodoxy, to put it bluntly, of cultural and moral revolution: a wholesale assault on the beliefs and practices of an entire post-1960's settlement.

We all should start by acknowledging the debt we owe to unions, and work to stop this wholesale assault on the American worker.

Condoleezza Rice, the administration's most prominent female presence, has presided as national security adviser while a wholesale assault has taken place on the reproductive rights and health of poor women overseas.

Leaders of the Legislature, seeing a convention as a wholesale assault on their authority, also opposed it.

He also warns Democrats against a wholesale assault on entitlement programs.

After the Red Army "liberated" the Baltic states, a third ordeal began: a wholesale assault on private farming, devastating a once- thriving economy.