frontal attack

collocation in English

meaningsoffrontalandattack

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frontal
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈfrʌn.təl/us
/ˈfrʌn.t̬əl/
relating to the front ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition offrontalandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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But his fury was regarded by the audience as afrontalattacknot only on the author, but on poetry itself.
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Unger launches afrontalattackon the conservative trends he sees as characteristic of contemporary forms of critique, trends that he identifies with certain aspects of pragmatism.
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It constituted what amounts to afrontalattackon the foundations of a humane asylum policy.
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Therefore, they hesitate to make afrontalattackupon it.
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They cannot make afrontalattack, so they try to attack from the flank.
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There has been afrontalattackon derelict land in the area.
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I suggest that there must be not only afrontalattackupon it, but that it must be attacked simultaneously from all sides.
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They are afraid to make afrontalattackon wages.
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The problem now is no longer one of afrontalattackon a wide front, as it used to be.
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Some of them have said in my hearing that they do not believe that they can make afrontalattackon wages in existing conditions.
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So they embarked upon another, lessfrontalattack.
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It is not being done by afrontalattack.
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It was never suggested that they would conduct thisfrontalattack.
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That policy has been dropped in favour of afrontalattackon the trade union movement.
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We need a successfulfrontalattackupon the whole concept of comparability.
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Afrontalattackon this difficult situation would not solve the matter.
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The annual growth survey is indeed afrontalattackon long-established, socially and economically essential workers' rights and on the very concept of collective bargaining.
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