Sentence examples for rulers executed from inspiring English sources

Hindu and Muslim rulers executed tax evaders, rebels and enemy soldiers alike "under the feet of elephants".

Socrates ended up being executed at the hands of the city's rulers.

The UK condemned the decision by the Gambia's president Yahya Jammeh – who seized power in a 1994 coup and who is one of Africa's longest-running and least democratic rulers – to execute nine death row prisoners, including one woman, without warning.

Laws from imperial Rome to 17th Century England made it possible for rulers to execute those who criticised them and their actions.

Old rulers are seized and executed.

The ghosts of executed past rulers, and of three judges murdered in 1982, haunt his regime.

The crushing of the 1857 "mutiny" saw the last of the Muslim Moghul rulers jailed, his sons executed and the entire position of Muslims within society inextricably shifted downwards.

Religious friction grew after the Turkish ruler Sultan Selim I executed large numbers of his Shīʿite subjects as heretics and potential spies.

Sentiment remains strong there for Hussein, the executed former ruler, as does hostility to the current Shiite-led government in Baghdad.

Too cautiously, his critics say: he did not get tough with Nigeria until its ruler, Sani Abacha, had already executed minority-rights activists.

Vetranio, commander of the Danube forces, had taken power in Illyricum (now located in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula); the rest of Europe was seized by the barbarian officer Magnentius, who in 350 executed Constans, the ruler in the West.