Across the globe, the situation for activists is increasingly dangerous: they face threats, physical assaults and assassination.
That finally we're interested less in the physical events of the assassination than in the pitiable and stumbling spirit underlying them proves 'Libra' to be a triumph".
Belgrade's pressure is not just political and psychological, Western and Montenegrin officials insist, but also physical, with the skillful assassination, 10 days before the vote, of one of Mr. Djukanovic's closest bodyguards.
Bullets only kill the physical body, but character assassination destroys the person's reputation -- and their political effectiveness.
There have been other political assassinations and physical attacks since Politkovskaya was shot in her apartment building.
Martinez's case is emblematic of the current situation for journalists in Mexico who — as the war on drugs declared by ex-President Felipe Calderón in 2006 continues to rage — increasingly find themselves the target of death threats, physical attacks, arbitrary detentions and assassinations.
HOUSTON -- Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has arrived at a Houston hospital where she'll begin physical therapy after being gravely wounded in an assassination attempt.
Because Three Mile Island was a much more complex story, scientifically and in its real physical threat to large populations, than was the Kennedy assassination, there are some limitations in Hampton's account.
This includes the assassination of a dozen reporters as well as the use of physical violence, death threats and court cases to intimidate independent media organizations.
They inflicted physical, emotional, and economic damage, and he believed they would not stop short of using assassinations to neutralize their adversaries.
