AIR ATTACK collocation | meaning and examples of use (original) (raw)
collocation in English
meanings of air and attack
air
noun
uk
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/eər/us
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/er/
the mixture of gases that surrounds the earth and that ...
attack
noun
uk
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/əˈtæk/us
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/əˈtæk/
a violent act intended to hurt or damage someone ...
Examples of air attack
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Such air attack is said to be pressed home at levels determined by military considerations only.
He said, in other words, that we must make ourselves impregnable from air attack.
They include a massive loss of life and possibly an air attack on oil installations.
Furthermore, it is not only a question of armaments and equipping ships to protect themselves against under-water and air attack.
Let us take the case of an unexpected air attack.
And if attempted what a target for air attack!
Has a beginning been made with their actual construction in areas considered most vulnerable to air attack?
These concentrations are under very heavy air attack.
Think of the fleet we have scattered all over the world with only nine fighting machines to deal with hostile air attack.
No other country is more exposed than we are to air attack.
We know, and we are told, that the best way to meet air attack is to meet it in the air.
Secondly, a settlement that did not provide early warning against air attack.
I believe that the hideous potential of the strategic air attack has changed that.
Under merciless air attack which had destroyed our possibilities of landing any of our heavy paraphernalia, these two small forces were withdrawn.
We are obviously not going to win this war only by blockade, by air attack or by invasion.
Full use is being made of these powers in those parts of the country which can be regarded as relatively safe from air attack.
It is now generally accepted that the main object of an air attack is to cause panic and to demoralise the civilian population.
That would mean that they would be in exposed positions during an air attack.
But no experience gained in any theatre of war makes one believe that air attack by itself can terrify a nation into submission.
In addition to being fitted with every known antisubmarine device, ships have now to be very heavily armed against air attack.
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