Sentence examples for killed in act of from inspiring English sources

"Boris Nemtsov was killed in act of terror," said Ilya Yashin, his close political ally and friend.

About 800 Iraqis were killed in acts of violence in August, according to the United Nations.

In Iraq last month, more than eleven hundred people were killed in acts of terrorism and violence, including nearly seven hundred civilians.

The UN mission in Iraq said about 800 Iraqis were killed in acts of violence in August, while more than 4,500 people have reportedly been killed since April.

Since the launch of the so called 'war on terror' more than 55,000 Pakistanis and counting have been killed in acts of terrorism.

More than 6,000 people have been killed in acts of violence across the country this year, as Iraq's sectarian balance comes under acute strain from the civil war in neighboring Syria.

By their count 17,000 Iranians have been killed in acts of terror over the last 3 1/2 decades.

However, these people were killed in an act of mass hate driven by a potent combination of fundamentalism and hatred of American imperialism.

Indeed, the raucous funeral celebrations in Gaza and Nablus for Palestinians killed in the act of killing Jews, and repeated scenes of Palestinian mothers rejoicing in their own children's deaths as "martyrs," (and in their children's murder of Jewish children) is the symptom of a deeply sick society.

Sherip M. Tepsayev, Mr. Yevloyev's lawyer, said he might have been killed in an act of revenge.

Spotlight claimed the Provisional IRA's South Armagh brigade rather than the Real IRA demanded Donaldson be killed in an act of revenge for his treachery.