Sentence examples for executions of the great from inspiring English sources

He was one of only three provincial secretaries who survived the mass executions of the Great Purge of the 1930s.

The spectacle of the first secretary of the Communist Party exposing the wrongful executions of the Great Purge of the 1930s and the excesses of Soviet police repression, after years of fearful silence, had far-reaching effects that Khrushchev himself could barely have foreseen.

I know this because my roommate, Samuel Aaron Laden '70, and I planned and led the execution of the Great Cannon Hoax of 1969 as a way to inspire our football team before the 100th centennial game against Rutgers.

Leicester's execution of the great escape last season was carried out with such attacking endeavour that many Filbert Way regulars may have feared Ranieri's desire to 'tinker' may be deadly to their chances of survival.

As was said by Chief Justice Marshall in McCulloch v. Maryland, and cannot be too often repeated: 'No trace is to be found in the constitution of an intention to create a dependence of the government of the Union on those of the states, for the execution of the great powers assigned to it.

Every team and organization must measure the efficiency and effectiveness with which, they not just generate a great deal of "good ideas" but also accelerate their time to cash in the execution of those great ideas.

In Antony Beevor's history of the Battle of Stalingrad, the brutality and waste of the Stalinist regime — prisoners left to die in the snow, political commissars ordering the execution of innocents, the dead of the great purges haunting the whole — is sickening.

Details of the Great Escape executions reached the British Government.

He intended it -- in regard to instrumentation -- as the means of exposing the highest qualities in execution and expression of the greatest players in the world".

The Song disbandment of the Great Chu and execution of Zhang Bangchang antagonized the Jurchens and violated the treaty that the two parties had negotiated.

In the European Middle Ages the shire moot (assembly) was held on Penenden Heath, which was the scene of executions and of great county meetings until the 19th century, when it was enclosed in 1882 for public recreation.