Sentence examples for murder less from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the Taliban would agree to murder less in return for concessions.

She makes love to him in his mother's sacred parlor; she even commits murder — less for Eben than in defense of the toxic love that feeds her.

A genius of disguise, his identity forever fluid and unknown, he commits a series of seemingly arbitrary crimes — theft, kidnapping, murder — less for profit than the pleasure of spreading fear.

Ms. Seery found her computer sitting on the floor and surmised that the police sirens responding to the murder less than a block away had scared off the burglars.

Cleveland community activists are also now questioning why it is taking so long when Baltimore filed charges in the Freddie Gray case within weeks, as did North Charleston, South Carolina, when it charged a police officer with murder less than a week after he shot an unarmed, fleeing man.

The wretched Johnson-Goldwater race took place while the nation was still shocked by the murder, less than a year earlier, of President John F. Kennedy; the Nixon-Humphrey contest reflected the furies of the Vietnam era after Johnson's virtual abdication and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy.

A recent study by King's College London shows that the over-35s are being murdered less frequently but those under 17 are being murdered more often.

Last year saw 419 murders, less than a fifth as many as in 1990, although the city has 1m more people (see chart 2).

Shakur was released from prison less than a month after sending the note – part fan letter, part collaboration offer – and murdered less than a year after writing it.

Gandhi was murdered less than six months later by a Hindu extremist, and millions were uprooted during the partition of India and Pakistan, many of them killed in religious violence.

Congo's first prime minister, a hero of independence 50 years ago this week, was overthrown and murdered less that a year after taking office.