Hideki Tojo

Thus, it was to seek true civilization and true justice for all the peoples of the world, and to view this as the destruction of personal freedom and respect is to be assailed by the hatred and emotion of war, and to make hasty judgments.

Japanese General

Wes Craven

There was a period around Columbine when horror films were being kind of assailed by the government. The studios got very afraid that they were going to be sued, and studios at about that time were all being taken over by corporations.

American Director

Alan Rickman

I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

British Actor

Havelock Ellis

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

British Psychologist

David Brock

Bill Clinton's legacy on job creation should be assailed by none and admired by every presidential candidate who hopes to do the same.

American Author

Alain Juppe

The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.

French Politician

Robert Green Ingersoll

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it.

American Lawyer

John Dryden

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail.

English Poet

John Kenneth Galbraith

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

American Economist

Christopher Hitchens

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Use 'assail' for describing aggressive physical confrontations.

Physical attack

'Assail' implies forceful action, often sudden and intense.

Strong action

While 'assail' can mean a literal attack, it is also used metaphorically.

Not just physical

'Assail' can be used to describe emotional or intellectual challenges.

Emotional impact

When 'assail' is used figuratively, it often means to cause doubt or confusion.

Causing doubt

'Assail' suggests a direct and forceful verbal or mental challenge.

Mental confrontation

'Assail' can describe someone trying hard to get noticed, often with questions or demands.

Seeking attention

When 'assail' involves requests, it implies persistence and sometimes desperation.

Persistent requests

Use 'assail' to describe being approached by many people or things at once.

Overwhelming approach

 whichever style you enjoy particularly. And let's take a stewarding role for the sound around us. Protect your ears? Yes, absolutely. Design soundscapes to be beautiful around you at home and at work. And let's start to speak up when people are assailing us with the noise that I played you early on.

Julian Treasure: Shh!...

 not in mine is the momentous issue of civil war the government will not assail you you can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors you have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government while i shall have the most solemn one to preserve protect