Sentence examples for brazen assassination from inspiring English sources

But this was something new: a brazen assassination, carried out in central London, deploying a kind of mini-nuclear bomb.

The brazen assassination attempts seem to signal a new tactic of Islamist militants in Islamabad, the capital, where military personnel had been able to travel relatively freely and openly.

It wasn't just the shocking nature of a brazen assassination attempt on a sitting congresswoman that resonated with me; it was the evidence we have that something profound changed that year.

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Rebel fighters in Syria, building on the momentum gained by their brazen assassination of three top security officials a day earlier, seized all four border crossings with Iraq and one into Turkey on Thursday, while also claiming for the first time to have captured a pocket of Damascus after intense street fighting.

"The things we're seeing in Mexico today, we saw the same glimmers in Italy" — the beginnings of a crusade — said Charlie Rooney, recalling the days when he and his F.B.I. partner, Carmine Russo, puzzled over the brazen assassination of the fearsome Bonanno family boss Carmine Galante, in the backyard of an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn's Bushwick section in 1979.

What happened next was one of the most brazen assassinations of modern times.

For a Left in this country which has seen so many issues go from bad to worse over the past decade -- a rampantly growing national security state, brazen assassinations abroad, a record level of deportations, a tailspin in unionization, to name just a few -- the idea of directly taking on the Democrats, and not just the Republicans, has been anathema.

His defiant display of nuclear advancements in the face of constant international condemnation, and his brazen assassinations of both his uncle and half-brother, have revealed a young despot far more cruel and clever than his father Kim Jong Il ever was.

As he left his car, carrying flowers for his wife, he was shot 11 times with a semiautomatic weapon in a brazen midnight assassination.

MOSCOW — A prominent Russian lawyer who spent the better part of a decade pursuing contentious human rights and social justice cases was killed on Monday in a brazen daylight assassination in central Moscow, officials said.

For 20 years, Palermo's battle with Mafia criminals has attracted worldwide attention, first with the brazen mob assassinations of leading prosecutors, then with the community revulsion and resolve that followed.