Sentence examples for a premeditated act from inspiring English sources

"This was a premeditated act, this was deliberate.

He was a cold-blooded killer carrying out a premeditated act of carnage.

The G.M.C. panel accepted that Chapman had not committed a premeditated act or had prior knowledge of the deception.

The offence was deemed a "momentary aberration" rather than a "premeditated act of cheating" at a hearing in early December.

Barbara Porter was the first to cross the line, and it was very much a premeditated act.

This was a premeditated act, this was deliberate, but Greg was the only one who knew it.

Mitigating the notion of a premeditated act--heat of passion, drunkenness, rage, a history of childhood violence, self-defense--down to murder in the second degree is a win.

The murder of Dr. George R. Tiller was a heinous premeditated act of home-grown terrorism and should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

The film is "a deliberate and premeditated act of mocking at and insulting the Korean nation," the news agency said, citing the bulletin, and shows that the United States is "the root cause of all disasters and misfortune of the Korean nation," "an empire of evil" and "the headquarters that spreads abnormality, degeneration, violence and fin-de-siècle corrupt sex culture".

This horrific, premeditated act — the rape of a teenage girl, who is killed along with her family — is based on a real atrocity that took place in Iraq last year.

She was harshly criticized by Republicans for misleading the public when the White House subsequently characterized the attack as a premeditated terrorist act, not a protest gone awry.