He didn't see this as fun and games, but a serious assault on an open society.

Women, however, are reluctant to report even serious sexual assaults to the police.

Until the present century, it had known no serious assault since the ending of the war with the English 500 years ago.

What I do say is that with them still unable to find a way, we now face the most serious assault yet.

With Brian's record especially, another serious assault would get them both jail time.

Only last night, he is believed to have committed a serious assault.

Last year, there were more than 800 serious assaults on police officers in this city.

"This is a second round of serious assault," he said.

The proposed new law is a serious assault on both.

He described it as the most serious assault on the city to date.