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defenestrated

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Past of defenestrate

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For the first time since independence in 1960, Nigerians have defenestrated a sitting president.

Are Will, Jack and Alana dead or alive after getting stabbed, skewered and defenestrated (one of my favorite words) at the end of last season?

Two months on and following last week's disastrous meeting of eurogroup finance ministers in Riga, Varoufakis was defenestrated.

Ed Miliband, its recently defenestrated leader, disowned the centrism of Tony Blair's New Labour, trying instead to win the general election from the left.

The decision belongs to Jacqui Smith, the home secretary; she will need the agreement of London's Tory mayor, Boris Johnson, who defenestrated Sir Ian in the first place.

His outgoing defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, wrote a memorandum just before he was defenestrated, admitting that the current policy in Iraq was not working.

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Darnley and a group of nobles stab Rizzio to death and defenestrate him (in real life his body was thrown down the stairs at Holyrood, not out of a window).

THE once-familiar lineup of CAC-40 bosses is getting less so, as one after another is moved, fired or defenestrates himself.

Mr Cameron reportedly came under sustained pressure to defenestrate her in last month's reshuffle.

In the absence of a reliable alternative, defenestrating Mr Lukashenka may not be part of Mr Putin's plan.

But Labour's three inequalities, and the grievances they have engendered, may help to defenestrate him and Mr Brown before they can be properly alleviated.

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