Sentence examples for ordered him to kill from inspiring English sources

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If his commander ordered him to kill, he did, and that was that.

Litvinenko subsequently charged that his F.S.B. superiors had ordered him to kill Berezovsky.

In testimony, he said voices in his head ordered him to kill Ms. Lindh.

Many Turks are wondering whether he can be induced to reveal who ordered him to kill Mr. Ipekci.

In another case, a witness told HRW that a colonel ordered him to kill three people who had tried to flee and were caught.

As the conversation progresses, Parasi admits that he was the one who threw the grenade and that no one ordered him to kill the surviving boy with a machete.

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In 1998, Mr Litvinenko publicly accused his FSB superiors of ordering him to kill Mr Berezovsky.

In this trial, the prosecution is trying to get around that by arguing that Mr. Muhammad dominated Mr. Malvo, effectively ordering him to kill.

He was said to have told doctors that since the age of 12 he had heard voices ordering him to kill, and his journal contained passages telling of his self-loathing and fantasizing that he might blow up his school or "walk into a pep rally with guns". But even the killer himself said he could not explain what happened.

A lawyer for Mr. Campbell, a decorated marine who is now a professor at the University of Delaware, said the film was edited to take out footage in which Mr. Campbell made clear that only soldiers who witnessed the atrocities firsthand would be allowed to testify at the hearings, and footage in which he recounted his military superiors ordering him to kill innocent civilians.

Eventually, other voices joined in, maybe 50 of them, male and female, yelling "as loud as humans with megaphones," John recalled, from the moment he awoke in the morning until he fell asleep at night, cursing or ordering him to kill himself or, once, when he picked up a ringing telephone, screaming in chorus, "You're guilty!

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