assailed

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Amid Exits, President of Hunter College Is Assailed for Her Management Style Jennifer J. Raab, the fast-moving, fast-talking president of Hunter College, recently landed a $25 million donation, the largest in the college’s history.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2013

An Ambitious Team Player Assailed by Doubts These visits to Jena and Berlin offered glimpses of a reality radically at odds with my most fundamental assumptions.

From Salon • Aug. 26, 2010

VII, No. 4, I am constrained to offer a reply to "G. Washington Assailed."

From Time Magazine Archive

Assailed by guilt feelings, sentimentalizing the alien cultures over which they ruled, the imperialists failed to overhaul the social structures of the subject nations.

From Time Magazine Archive

Assailed by uncooperative inmates, Mendez had finally gone downstairs to the sergeants, screaming, “I can’t do it! I can’t do it!”

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover