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frontal attack

An air interception that terminates with a heading crossing angle greater than 135°.
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How will a probe to check if the official version on the death of a person is correct be a frontal attack on the judiciary?
He said in accordance with the President's order, the military did not conduct a frontal attack on the mosque to avoid destroying it.
While Kanhaiya is out on interim bail and has already launched a frontal attack on the Narendra Modi-led government, Umar and Anirban still remain in custody.However, this new faux pas by Google is likely to rattle the peace that finally seemed to have descended on the controversy-laced varsity.
Claudia starts a frontal attack against corruption, drug gangs and impunity and does what everyone had hitherto held to be impossible: she arrests former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide.
The consultation on the Freedom of Information Act, being undertaken by an "independent commission" appointed by the Government, is a full frontal attack on these principles.
No clever manoeuvring was possible, so frontal attack was the only alternative, after artillery bombardment.
After the notification was issued, Kejriwal had launched a frontal attack on the Centre, accusing it of "back-stabbing" the people of the city by "siding" with the Lt Governor to run Delhi through "backdoor" and protect the corrupt.
Leading his company, he launched a frontal attack and succeeded in driving the enemy out of its fortified trenches by dusk on December 3.
"We'll resist pressure to apply this charter to our schools as a frontal attack on the church," he told Catholic News Service Sept.
The Chancellor is tinkering around the edges with the rich, but it's a full frontal attack on the unemployed, sick, old and disabled.
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