Sentence examples for and assassinated in a from inspiring English sources

In 1987, Sankara was overthrown and assassinated in a coup.

The tension culminated in Diem being overthrown and assassinated in a November coup.

He was the country's independence leader, and was assassinated in a 1975 army coup along with 17 of her closest relatives.

bc died June 133 bc, Rome) Roman tribune (133 bc) who sponsored agrarian reforms to restore the class of small independent farmers and who was assassinated in a riot sparked by his senatorial opponents.

Nor did he mean the Arab Christians in the Middle East who are being terrorized, threatened, and even assassinated in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance since the invasion of Iraq.

Yet worry they do, with the spring of 1968 seared into their memories, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated in a span of two months.

It was in Belgrade that the most dramatic regicide plot of modern times was carried out, when King Alexander and Queen Draga were assassinated in a most cold-blooded manner.

The great French political leader Jean Jaurès spoke out boldly and repeatedly against the war he saw coming, and, because of this, was assassinated in a Paris cafe several days before it began.

About 350 Jews are scheduled to have dinner in a rented hall in Brooklyn tonight with Binyamin Kahane, the son of Rabbi Meir David Kahane, the radical Brooklyn Jew and Israeli politician who was assassinated in a Manhattan hotel 10 years ago.

The transfer on Monday came amid further violence: an aide to the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, and an Afghan MP were assassinated in a Taliban-claimed attack in Kabul, while three Nato troops were killed in eastern Afghanistan.

They and three federal policemen were assassinated in a hail of automatic gunfire as they drove through the middle of Culiacan.