Sentence examples for murdered to from inspiring English sources

Sometimes whistle-blowers are murdered to stop them revealing corruption; sometimes rivals are disposed of.

"Leaders are murdered to terrorize communities, contaminate organisations and squash resistance movements.

Perhaps, as Safire suggests, he was murdered to shut him up.

She may have had her husband murdered to get power – but she used power well.

There is a dark secret, and the former P.M.'s first and second ghostwriters are both murdered to keep it.

'I believe Daniel was murdered to prevent him going public with information about police corruption,' he says.

Now many Abiola supporters, believing he was murdered to prevent him staging a political comeback, feel they have been robbed, yet again, of power.

It is a Géricault of blood and rape, Some desert town despoiled, some caravan Pillaged, its people murdered to a man.

Slaves were present in ancient Egypt and are known to have been murdered to accompany their deceased owners into the afterlife.

In the Army, internal-affairs agents were constantly on the lookout for potential traitors, who were often murdered to dissuade others.

He argues that Napoleon was quietly murdered--to prevent any possibility of his return to France--by infusions of arsenic in his wine.