aggressor
a person, group, or nation that attacks first or initiates hostilities; an assailant or invader.
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These institutions generally act by moving the aggressor to a different pod or they can take other actions, depending on the incident’s magnitude.
Locked up in the Land of Liberty: Part IV | Yariel Valdés González | July 28, 2021 | Washington BladeSchnaas says that during an in-person meeting in December 2020, the director of the unit described Roemer as a “serial aggressor,” but said that since Schnaas was not an employee at Grupo Salinas, they could not take legal steps.
Dozens of Women Accused Famous Intellectual Andrés Roemer of Sexual Abuse. They Came Together to Make the World Listen | Meaghan Beatley | June 1, 2021 | TimeDoxing is deployed as a concerted effort by a small number of aggressors to intimidate reporters, doctors and pro-vaccine advocates and make them believe a virtual mob is rallying against them, Center for Countering Digital Hate CEO Imran Ahmed said.
Colorado bans doxing of public health workers amid rise in online harassment | Meryl Kornfield | May 20, 2021 | Washington PostFor both, it is easy to point to the other as the aggressor, militarily and economically.
Attorneys for Ujiri filed a countersuit in August 2020, alleging that video showed Strickland to have been “undeniably the initial aggressor.”
Raptors president, sheriff’s deputy drop lawsuits over shoving incident at NBA Finals | Cindy Boren | February 12, 2021 | Washington Post
Later on, the release refers to the accuser as the “sexual aggressor” with “not one, but two young men early last Sunday morning.”
And in many cases the appropriate response to an invasion has been a declaration of war against the aggressor.
They intercept and diffuse, to some extent babysitting the possible aggressor until the disease of violent intent has passed.
Using Strategies Reserved for Disease Outbreak, Activists Try to “Cure” Urban Violence | Sarah Kunst | April 11, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTWhen passions are enflamed, people will be less willing to sit down and negotiate with someone they view as an aggressor.
Davis begins the film, punched by an aggressor into the gutter and ends it the same way.
He ascertained, from a reliable source of information, that Haggard had not been the aggressor.
The Pit Town Coronet, Volume II (of 3) | Charles James WillsIt is, as far as we can tell, the only war in human history in which Mankind is fully justified as the invading aggressor.
Unwise Child | Gordon Randall GarrettEda, of course, was the aggressor; she was irresistibly drawn, she would not be repulsed.
The Dwelling Place of Light, Complete | Winston ChurchillThe eagle-eyed teacher spied the movement and haled the aggressor to the floor.
The Viking Blood | Frederick William WallaceThe tradition in Geoffrey's day, at least, distinctly states that Oswald's conqueror was the aggressor.
On Some Ancient Battle-Fields in Lancashire | Charles Hardwick
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