Sentence examples for attempted assassin from inspiring English sources

As the historian Timothy Garton Ash pointed out in our discussions last Friday, the so-called "heckler's veto" – the threat of disorder being used to silence speech – has in the case of Charlie Hebdo, and now Copenhagen, been replaced by an attempted "assassin's veto" – using the threat of murder to silence any of those with whom we disagree.

George Wallace wasn't considered electable in 1972, when he entered the Democratic primaries, but that didn't prevent the populist and pro-segregationist governor of Alabama from winning the Florida primary and chasing the establishment favorites Ed Muskie and Hubert Humphrey out of the race before a bullet from an attempted assassin left him paralyzed.

Didn't Pope John Paul II make a special point of visiting and forgiving his attempted assassin?

After she had run-ins with two off-campus stalkers (including Ronald Regan's attempted assassin, John Hinckley), she vowed to keep her private life exactly that.

The second bullet, which was in the chamber of the gun the attempted assassin pointed directly to the Archbishop's head, jammed and misfired). .

The second bullet, which was in the chamber of the gun the attempted assassin pointed directly to the archbishop's head, jammed and misfired).

The former include New York City "Mad Bomber" George Metesky and attempted Reagan assassin John Hinckley.

TUCSON — Jared L. Loughner, the man accused of opening fire outside a Tucson supermarket on Jan . 8in what the authorities consider an attempted political assassination, researched famous assassins, the death penalty and solitary confinement on the Internet before the shooting, an official close to the investigation said Wednesday.

This year, assassins attempted to kill Cabrera, shooting her dozens of times while she was speaking on a live radio program.

In September 2011, a would-be assassin reportedly attempted to stop his balloons by killing the defector, who claims to regularly receive death threats by email and phone.

When Turkish assassin Ali Agca attempted to murder Pope John Paul II in 1981, he was arrested by Italian police as they are allowed to patrol St Peter's Square due to its closeness to an adjoining Roman neighborhood.