Sentence examples for escape assassination from inspiring English sources

Though he served a year in prison, many cops and gangsters back home believed he had arranged his time away to short-circuit federal prosecution and escape assassination attempts.

Suharto was one of the highest-ranking officers to escape assassination, and, as head of the strategic command, he led the army in crushing the coup within a few days.

Alford, a historian, tracks the careers of the men whose "vigilance and suspicion" and "determined suppression" of Elizabeth's enemies were, he suggests, what enabled the Queen to escape assassination and her country to avoid invasion by French and Spanish forces intent on returning England to Catholicism.

Provide and analyze specific examples of leaders who were assassinated, leaders who escaped assassination, and/or leaders who were provided with exile.

Musharraf has himself only just escaped assassination.

Twice in the past year British diplomats in Sana'a have narrowly escaped assassination.

Mr. Abbasi, a nuclear scientist, narrowly escaped assassination in Tehran two years ago.

Since then, at least one union leader escaped assassination, and others have fled the country.

Takimoto himself narrowly escaped assassination in 1994 when a teenage Aum member injected sarin into his car.

The bomb that killed the ayatollah came less than a week after another top Shia cleric, also based in Najaf, narrowly escaped assassination.

KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 17 people died in four separate episodes in Afghanistan on Saturday, while a police chief was kidnapped and a provincial governor narrowly escaped assassination.