More important, when would they face the next direct attack?

The act must have been meant also as a direct attack upon the Church.

This is just a direct attack on the poor from the rich.

You are not to make any direct attacks on anyone.

This was no point to use the strategy of direct attack.

This section of the camp was no longer under direct attack.

If the window itself came under direct attack, however, their chances would be poor, to say the least.

The last time they tried a direct attack had been a disaster.

Yet there was little chance of carrying the works by a direct attack.

This was a direct attack on the foreign policy of William himself and the previous administration.