Sentence examples for devastating assassination from inspiring English sources
Had the biker's alleged mission succeeded, yet another devastating assassination would have been added to a bloody era, and all over a death that was never found to have been a crime.
Viewers get the history of his family, his affection for Americans and America's style, his two brothers and a run-through of recent Israeli history, including the devastating assassination of Yitzak Rabin.
And what devastating character assassinations.
The Sinhalese political establishment and a generation of moderate Tamil leaders were devastated by assassinations.
He was devastated by his assassination in November 1963.
She was "funny" and "playful", but distraught when Mark, her son, went missing in the Sahara, and (as in the film) devastated by the assassination of Airey Neave.
Benazir's tragic assassination devastated a nation already on its knees, stripping whatever might have remained of its founding identity.
Now Betty, perhaps enticed by the glamorous vision of the Kennedy marriage -- she was transfixed when Jackie did her televised tour of the White House early in season two -- loves Kennedy and is devastated by his assassination.
For a kid, that brief thousand days of the Kennedy presidency were a heady mix of exhilaration and despair: I was alternately captivated by the family's youth, energy and charisma; terrified at the prospect of nuclear annihilation during the Cuban missile crisis; thrilled by the early flights of the space program; devastated by the assassination in 1963.
Radical Republican congressmen were, at the time of his assassination, sharpening their knives in opposition to his plans for reconstructing the rebellious Southern states, and they wielded them to devastating effect against his successor, Andrew Johnson.
