Sentence examples for assassinated once from inspiring English sources

When I saw the Jokerised Obama, recast as the comic book incarnation of pure evil, the first question that came into my head, with an almost physical jolt, was … uh, how long did take for Kennedy to get assassinated once in office?

Israel had tried to assassinate him once before.

President Álvaro Obregón, who was assassinated in 1928, once said that "no general can resist a 50,000-peso cannon blast," a precursor to today's "plata o plomo" — silver or lead, the drug cartel's offer to officials of a bribe or a bullet.

Born a Tamil in England at about the same time the Tigers were founded, I know that, sadly, if you have heard of Tamils at all, you have probably linked us in your mind to a group of rebel fighters who pioneered the art of suicide bombing and once assassinated the prime minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.

Soon thereafter the king of Elam was assassinated, and his kingdom once again fell apart into small states.

As in the past, those identified will likely be added to lists of people to be assassinated, or rounded up once the United States and its allies leave the country.

After his release in 1988, he was dubbed the head of the New England Mafia, and during an ensuing power struggle was once nearly assassinated in front of an IHOP.

Wearing a shawl that once belonged to assassinated Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, she spoke of forgiveness and compassion, even for the people who had tried to murder her.

Mr Fonseka, who was nearly assassinated by a Tamil Tiger suicide bomber in 2006, once told the BBC the "crowning achievement" of his military career was wiping out the rebels.

It's no surprise that his former co-star Denzel Washington once joked he'd like to have Ejiofor assassinated; he's literally tearing up Hollywood right now.

One of them is Ramzan Kadyrov, the young, erratic rebel turned prime minister of Chechnya, whose father, once its president, Mr Basayev claimed to have assassinated.