Politically, Constantine's main contribution was perhaps that, in leaving the empire to his three sons, he reestablished a dynastic succession, but it was secured only by a sequence of political murders after his death.
Some see Mr Litvinenko's death as part of sequence of recent murders that included the contract killing in October of Anna Politkovskaya, a crusading journalist and devout Kremlin critic.The main rival version propagated by the Kremlin's allies is that the Litvinenko poisoning and Politkovskaya shooting were instead the work of forces bent on discrediting Mr Putin.
Drawing on material in several European languages, including memoirs and scholarly literature, Snyder recounts this sequence of mass murder — by Stalin and then by Hitler — which accounted for 14 million civilian deaths in little more than a dozen years.
Thomas De Quincey, the brilliant Romantic essayist, liberated the form in his sequence of essays "On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts".
When dealing with (or often not dealing with) the impact of murder and the sequence of events it brings about, it can result in multiple processes of re-trauma.
The typeface is very thin, but the sequence tells a story of murder in about a minute and a half, as the camera follows an army of ladybugs across bits of debris, and a woman's hand.
Only the exact sequence of events leading to Tessa's murder remains to be solved, and the reader is left with little to do but root for Justin's triumph over his wife's betrayers.
When she was not yet eight years old, she was raped by her mother's boyfriend and told of it, after which he was murdered; the traumatic sequence of events left her almost completely mute for several years.
There were a lot of murders".
