Sentence examples for lynching attempt from inspiring English sources

He called the lynching attempt "a crime against humanity," and last week said he and other members of the government "are the new Jews," referring to Nazi-era persecution.

Tomislav Nikolić said the attack resembled a "lynching attempt" and warned adversaries against drawing Serbia into "new quarrels" 20 years after the end of the civil war.

We trace the shifting orientation of state agents to lynching attempts between the end of Reconstruction and the start of the Great Depression.

Sociologist José de Souza Martins first recorded an increase in lynching attempts halfway through 2013 – the precise moment when the country exploded into protest against corruption, police brutality, poor public services and excess spending on the World Cup.

Soon they had found themselves surrounded by a mob, and barely survived a lynch attempt.

They came here with the intention of killing us, it was a lynch attempt". said Afrika editor Şener Levent.

Following the release of Eraserhead, Lynch attempted to find funding for his next project, Ronnie Rocket, a film "about electricity and a three-foot guy with red hair".

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General nominee Loretta Lynch attempted on Wednesday to tread a fine line on immigration, telling senators she believes President Barack Obama acted within his powers on deportation relief, but that she would respect the courts if they find his actions unconstitutional.

Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas — who as president signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — called out the president for a "farce and a sham — an effort to set up a police state in the guise of liberty". Now, Congress may add one more anti-lynching attempt to its list of shortcomings.

Smollett's case, Harris and Booker said in separate tweets, was an attempted 'modern day lynching,' while Gillibrand called it 'a sickening and outrageous attack.

For example, the new National Museum of African American Life and Culture is a form of reparations as are attempts to memorialize lynching victims rather than Confederate heroes.