Sentence examples for notorious act from inspiring English sources
The group's most notorious act was kidnapping Mr. Moro in March 1978.
La Fenice, the splendid old theatre of Venice, had to be rebuilt after a notorious act of arson destroyed the extant building in 1996.
Following a notorious act of parricide, Tyrion flees the Seven Kingdoms and travels to the east, where he hopes to offer his services to the exiled Daenerys Targaryen.
Pedrito, born in Lisbon as Alexandre Pedro Roque Silva, committed his notorious act in 2001 at a bullfight in Moita, a town south of Lisbon.
When the Czechs visited Glasgow, the notorious act was a dive from Jan Rezek that won a key and late penalty.
On Feb. 14, 1981, Devi led a notorious act of revenge known as the Saint Valentine's Day massacre; some 20 of Behmai's Thakurs were rounded up and shot in retribution for her gang rape.
One of Mr. Sakic's most notorious acts, camp surivors say, took place in the summer of 1942 when the Ustashe closed the Djakovo camp, which held Jewish woman and children.
Shortly after the missive was sent, the pair quarrelled violently and in one of history's most notorious acts of self-mutilation, Van Gogh sliced off his right ear.
Having separate trials is likely to reduce the effect of the prosecution of one of the most notorious acts of violence in the civil rights struggle.
It was one of the most notorious acts of self-harm in the recent history of British business: the moment in 1991 when the jewellery entrepreneur Gerald Ratner described one of his company's products as "total crap".
In one of his most notorious acts, he served as a member of the "Death Commission" that, in the summer of 1988, oversaw the massacre of thousands of political prisoners on trumped-up charges.
