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Michigan’s attorney general, Bill Schuette, is assailing his rival for the Republican nomination for governor, Lt.

From New York Times • Mar. 26, 2018

All I've heard out of the opposition is assailing Ed Meese.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dole is assailing Clinton for being willing to settle for inadequate growth, as evidenced by the 2.5% 1996 forecast.

From Time Magazine Archive

The most great convulsion envisaged by the Prophets from Isaiah to Bahá’u’lláh, cataclysmic in violence, planetary in range, is assailing, at long last, the predominating nations of the Asiatic and American continents.

From Messages to America by Shoghi Effendi

And, here again, the satirist is assailing a movement which had set in long before he wrote, and which was destined to gain immense impetus and popularity in the two following centuries.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel