Sentence examples for bid to kill him from inspiring English sources

Why would a man in his 20's and 30's so cosseted that he had his own palaces, a fleet of Rolls-Royces, Ferraris and Porsches, a yacht on the Tigris and, until the 1996 bid to kill him, the opportunity to roam the world as an honored Olympic figure, turn to torture and murder?

One mob boss who hired a Lithuanian assassin for a failed bid to kill Crocetta was less than tolerant of his sexuality than voters, describing him in a wiretapped call as "this queer communist".

"To kill him".

They plan to kill him.

"They meant to kill him".

One is to kill him.

"We intended to kill him".

They were threatening to kill him.

I'd like to kill him".

Why did they need to kill him?

The Taliban have vowed to kill him.