1.   She felt battered into numbness by the sustained assault on her diminishing reserves.

2.   A sustained assault against terrorism will require men and women who believe their country and their commander in chief stand behind them.

3.   But with such programs now under a sustained political assault, particularly from GOP congressional leaders, raising the issue of reparations is increasingly viewed as a defense tactic.

4.   It would take a sustained assault on them to impact them.

5.   Now people are more aware that China tortures prisoners, persecutes religious believers, and is waging a sustained assault against the indigenous culture of Tibet.

6.   Sporadic gun fire could be heard throughout the evening, although there was no sustained assault on the hospital.

7.   The Asia Times is the first shot in what he intends to be a sustained assault on the Asian market.

8.   The more sustained assault was directed at Rafah and Khan Younis on the southern tip of Gaza, where several dozen people were treated for light wounds.

9.   Their arrival began what Pentagon officials said would be a period of sustained assaults against Taliban and al-Qaida forces.

10.   Artillery and heavy machine-gun fire resumed at noon after a sustained assault that had ended at dawn.