Sentence examples for murder at a time from inspiring English sources

One way of understanding crime is to think of it as another kind of revolution, one murder at a time.

Whether he had killed two or 20, Palmer could only be tried for one murder at a time.

Now investigators will be able to probe whether the Russian state was behind his murder at a time when relations between London and Putin are strained in the aftermath of the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight in Ukraine.

Oh, yes, and would you believe that Jeffrey Archer is at the Haymarket in his own courtroom drama, "The Accused," playing a surgeon arraigned for murder at a time when he himself is awaiting trial for perjury?

Mr. Sherman, the defense lawyer, is also expected to present evidence of dogs barking loudly, meant to pinpoint the occurrence of the murder at a time when Mr. Skakel was at a cousin's home.

Once we have gotten over the big gimmick -- we're a jury deciding the fate of a doctor arraigned for murder, at a time when the performer himself is awaiting trial for perjury he is charged with committing when he successfully sued a London tabloid for libel 13 years ago -- we're bound to ask whether we're watching a tense, inventive courtroom drama.

Ali was murdered at a time of rising tensions in Palestine and Israel, months before the first intifada – a Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.

Mr. Kelly was not about to reopen the debate over the merits of an idea proposed at the height of an epidemic of crack murders, at a time of revelations of broad misconduct in the department.

Mr. Frei's murder came at a time when opposition parties and the labor movement were regrouping after almost a decade of severe political repression.

The murder occurred at a time when the son had broken away professionally from the father and the two were barely speaking.

It grappled with families and crime in Hackney's so-called murder mile at a time when the stories of poor black and Asian communities rarely made it on to London's stages.