The phrase "assassinated in the first" is not correct and lacks clarity in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a specific event or context, but without additional information, its meaning is ambiguous.
Example: "The historical figure was assassinated in the first year of his presidency, which shocked the nation."
Alternatives: "killed in the first" or "murdered in the first".
In 1997, there was open fighting in the streets when the forces of Laurent Kabila entered the city from the east to topple President Mobutu, the dictator who had brought the country to its knees over three decades; riots followed in 2001 when Kabila was assassinated in the Second Congo War (the deadliest conflict since the Second World War).
Asked whether he believed Syria was involved in Gemayel's assassination, Bolton said: "We need to find out all of the facts, but you can take a look at the pattern of who gets assassinated in Lebanon". The first U.N. chief investigator, Germany's Detlev Mehlis, said the killing's complexity suggested the Syrian and Lebanese intelligence services both played a role in Hariri's assassination.
Perhaps best to not discuss it, not remind ourselves that the second president assassinated in the 20th century was killed here.
The great socialist Jean Jaurès was even assassinated in the cafe across the road trying to stop the first world war.
When Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, leader of the secular Awami League and the country's first prime minister, was assassinated in the 1975 coup, the new military regime amended the previously secular constitution to make Islam the state religion.
Gemayel was the fifth anti-Syrian, the fourth Christian and the most prominent figure to be assassinated in the two years since Hariri's killing.
Mr. Omar was the third government official in the past two months to be assassinated in the region.
The carp was dead, killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second, and third degrees.
Channeling Dashiell Hammett, Toklas chronicles in blood-curdling detail her first encounter with a live carp, which ended up "killed, assassinated, murdered in the first, second, and third degree".
More than 10 Catholic clerics were assassinated in Burundi in the first three years of the civil war.
