direct attack

collocation in English

meaningsofdirectandattack

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direct
adjective
uk
/daɪˈrekt/us
/daɪˈrekt/
going in a straight line towards somewhere or someone without stopping or ...
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attack
noun
uk
/əˈtæk/us
/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
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(Definition ofdirectandattackfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdirect attack

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The time has now come, perhaps, for a moredirectattackon the possible genetic and environmental influences.
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These procedures were adirectattackon the occult sciences.
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In light of the tightening of state control over both the press and associational activity in the mid-1920s, however, mounting adirectattackon licensing would have been dangerous.
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The pensions tax was adirectattackon saving and sent consumers the message that they are better off spending their money than saving it.
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This is adirectattackon one class in the community, and that the largest, and the class that can least afford it.
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This is recognised by doctors as adirectattackon their professional freedom and that of their patients, which is just as important.
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There is nodirectattackon interest rates and there is therefore no direct relief for individual borrowers.
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Therefore, the stations themselves are reasonably safe from the possibility of adirectattack.
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That is adirectattackon civil servants.
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This is adirectattackon the married woman.
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They could not make adirectattackon a particular country, but they did a very wise thing.
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There can be no doubt that this country is safer today fromdirectattackthan for many decades.
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The present law is adirectattackupon family life in that way.
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It is adirectattackon our citizens, on all of us.
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Of course, the fact that there are innocent victims represents adirectattackon human rights.
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