11.  The idea drew withering attacks questioning whether the technology could ever be built and whether it would be worth the hundreds of billions of dollars required to build it.

12.  The measure, containing no restrictions on private lawsuits, faced withering attacks from the cigarette manufacturers on one side and public health authorities on the other.

13.  The Republican economic plan has come under a withering attack from President Clinton and other Democrats and has been met by rampant skepticism by much of the public.

14.  The SEC proposal met with a withering attack from the Investment Company Institute, a fund trade group in Washington.

15.  The White House first launched a withering attack on Democrats for asking questions, and suggested that the questioning itself was somehow unpatriotic.

16.  When Standard Oil was in the dock, muckrakers and socialists had businessmen under withering attack.

17.  Worse, they still must contend with withering attacks from better-known liberal leaders in the black community who depict them as Uncle Toms.

18.  In a withering attack on the Clinton-Gore administration, Dick Cheney accused the Democratic pair of squandering opportunities to help ordinary Americans.

19.  It was the largest privatization deal ever in Russia, and came under withering attack.

20.  Just a day earlier, Interior Minister Anatoly Kulikov, whose troops are fighting in Chechnya, leveled a withering attack on Lebed and the peace deal.