Sentence examples for assassination facing from inspiring English sources

In fairness Farage stuck to the high road and didn't go for a counter-character assassination, facing a pincer attack from Brand and the audience, members of whom sporadically shouted and booed him during the debate.

When Johnson became president after Lincoln's assassination, he faced hostility on every front: southern Democrats viewed him as a traitor; northern Democrats didn't trust him; Republicans opposed his lenient Reconstruction policies.

From roadside bombs to rocket attacks and assassination attempts, Hezbollah is facing a growing campaign of violence which has reached deep into its Lebanese heartland.

The rest were left behind to face assassination or internment camps.

At home he faces assassination threats from groups as diverse as Baloch nationalists and Taliban warlords.

He often told negotiators that he would face assassination if he negotiated a separate peace.

General Musharraf has faced assassination attempts from militants, they say, for aiding the United States.

Dnipropetrovsk officials have faced assassination attempts by "liquidation groups" from the Donbas in recent months, and criminals have begun arriving under the guise of refugees.

Tunisia is still reeling from a political assassination and may face prolonged instability, as negotiations for the formation of a new government unfold with little chance of a consensus emerging.

Another recent film, "The President Must Not Die", portrays a decent head of state who faces assassination, an occurrence still common in Africa yet rarely reported in state-controlled media.

He filed his lawsuit against Deripaska in 2006 in London on the grounds that he could face assassination if he returned to Russia, where he also fears he might not get a fair hearing and may face "trumped up" charges.