Yet the suit, and the media treatment of it, resulted in a devastating assault on the character of a public man of high reputation.

The patrician Roosevelt responded with a devastating, class-based assault on "organized money."

Fourth, that insurgents will not be able to use this period, and their impunity in Falluja, to organize even more devastating assaults.

Davis led his brigade through the devastating assault known as Pickett's Charge.

But it never came, only a third devastating assault.

And while some stinging wasps do so only when individually provoked, others sting as part of a devastating organized assault upon their victim.

When the last particles of the devastating assault had drifted floorward.

Being told that you have cancer is a devastating psychological assault.

The Black Swamps were gone now, denuded and lifeless after the devastating assault.

Such a move, they say, would buttress American claims that an attack was necessary and risk a devastating American assault with conventional arms.