1.   I had watched her successor, David Ennals, come under withering union fire for cutting back on the hospital building programme.

2.   A cavalry charge that was turned back by withering fire.

3.   At the time, Mrs. Reagan had come under withering fire in the media.

4.   But they concede that they have lost the battle for public opinion under withering fire from Democrats, who have attacked the House majority as cruel to children.

5.   He lately has come under withering fire.

6.   Innocenzi, for example, discovered that one of his candidates, Steven Schiff of New Mexico, was under withering advertising fire as a clone of Gingrich.

7.   Since then, however, the proposal has come under withering fire from a broad range of groups representing children, the elderly, the disabled and AIDS victims.

8.   Some make it across the field in spite of the withering fire, only to fly into another firing line.

9.   The lumbering gunship, which lays down a withering fire from heavy machines guns and cannon, is assigned to the Air Force Special Operations Command.

10.   The wounded and dying crawled into a ravine to escape the withering Confederate fire.