Many were to lose their lives in the unprecedented attack on the heavily defended Normandy coastline.

In 1993 the Police Department began an unprecedented attack on quality-of-life offenses.

One reporter told Reuters that the action was an "unprecedented attack on press freedom".

It is, to be sure, an unprecedented attack by corporations and governments on trade unions.

There are reasonable excuses for the failure of federal officials to foresee an unprecedented attack.

This was an unprecedented attack on the public revenue.

These hard working people are under an unprecedented attack to take away their basic rights to have a voice and collectively bargain at work.

We expect, within the next several hours, to make clear the reasons for this unprecedented attack against the three Church of the Trust facilities.

But it is under unprecedented attack at home, from Ford and Volkswagen in particular.

This time, the nearly unprecedented attack on the record books was led by Phelps, who set five world marks.