Sentence examples for assassinations from from inspiring English sources

American officials said the group initially carried out small-scale, hit-and-run assassinations from the back of motorbikes after the 2009 riot.

And most of it remains just that – speculation, albeit of a kind that has fuelled character assassinations from those circling the wagons around the intelligence agencies.

The worse episodes of state violence in the 20th century also remain shrouded in official silence, chief among them are the crimes committed by Brazil's military dictatorship, which ran a system of torture and selective assassinations from 1964 to 1985.

But an Islamic breakaway group known as Jund-ul-Islam, or Soldiers of God, sharply stepped up a string of ambushes, bombings and assassinations from bases east of Halabja, threatening to paralyze life anew here, Kurdish leaders here say.

The story begins with a spectacular montage of assassinations from the late 1970s to the early '90s; then, one by one, the sinister, loyal-unto-death members of Mr. Andreotti's Christian Democratic faction are introduced.

Israel certainly has a track record of assassinations, from the Palestinian perpetrators of the Munich Olympic attack of 1972, to the killing of senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in a Dubai hotel room in early 2010.

"Such a meeting might well have prevented that act of assassination from taking place".

Flashman is dragooned into a scheme to prevent an assassination from happening.

Both recalled interpreting the coverage of the J.F.K. assassination from the television set when they were small children.

"This case is a beautiful example of character assassination from the school district up to the district attorney," he said.

Widespread awareness of the mythic storyline also permits writers and directors to approach the assassination from oblique angles.