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• Well, from my view, the American middle class and those who aspire to be part of it have been under assault for decades.
  — ABC News, 4 Dec. 2022
• But the bluff on which they are built has long been under assault by erosion, which has accelerated due to climate change.
  — Dharna Noor, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2023
• This crisis is placing the world’s ecosystems under assault.
  — Philip Lymbery and Leticia Carvalho, TIME, 7 June 2024
• Roe is overturned, health care for trans kids is under assault, lifechanging books are banned in libraries, and children get sick without warning.
  — Katy Hershberger, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Our individual freedoms have been under assault from the schoolhouse to Trump’s White House.
  — Laura Gersony, The Arizona Republic, 9 July 2024
• With freedom under assault globally, this is no time to waiver or retreat.
  — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• As the new school year begins, books, literacy and freedom of expression are under assault as never before, with book bans at U.S. schools up a whopping 33% since just last year.
  — Donna Wares, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• Suddenly, the peace and stability of all eastern Europe is under assault, with vast consequences for the continent as a whole.
  — Carl Bildt, Foreign Affairs, 28 Sep. 2023
• Many of the institutions that buttressed the global order for the past 80 years have weakened, the norms and values underpinning them are under assault, and globalizing trends have stalled or reversed.
  — Meghan L. O’Sullivan and Jason Bordoff, Foreign Affairs, 18 June 2024
• Yet multiple polls show that a majority of Americans — even Latinos — feel our borders are under assault.
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2024
• Our democracy is under assault from MAGA extremists, who care only about gaining power and keeping it.
  — Stefan Becket, CBS News, 26 Jan. 2023
• Amid the widening protests and the unease, if not fear, among many Jews, Republicans have sought to seize the political advantage by portraying themselves as the true protectors of Israel and Jews under assault from the progressive left.
  — Alex Lemonides, New York Times, 9 May 2024
• Opponents of Prime Minister Narendra Modi say democracy and free speech are under assault by a government seeking to crush any dissent.
  — Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 6 Apr. 2023
• The cactus cluster suddenly began to die over the last decade, under assault from saltwater intrusion, passing hurricanes, rising tides and predators, said James Lange, a co-author and one of Fairchild's research botanists.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 10 July 2024
• Tenure for faculty members, which protects independent thought, is also under assault in states such as Florida and Texas.
  — Bradford Vivian, The Conversation, 5 June 2023
• Newsom said in a statement that the priorities Feinstein fought for in Congress — reproductive freedom, equal protection and safety from gun violence — were under assault in the nation.
  — Michael R. Blood, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2023
• Time and again, research shows, the news organizations that employ women journalists who are under assault turn against them, depriving them of career opportunities and driving them from the profession.
  — Taylor Lorenz, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2023
• But upon its 1978 debut, Pei’s robust forms could be read as a statement of principles, an argument for a sculptural modernism at a moment when that brand of architecture was under assault by proponents of the cheeky, historicist postmodern movement.
  — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
• Tesla continues to dominate EV sales in America, but its seemingly insurmountable lead in driving range is under assault.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2021
• The vote on the city’s election rules comes as Republicans continue to argue that election integrity is under assault, a position refuted by election security experts across the country.
  — Ronald J. Hansen, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2024
• Healthcare groups worldwide are under assault from cybercriminals, and some attackers leverage intimate information about patients.
  — Catherine Stupp, WSJ, 11 May 2023

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024