Sentence examples for set of killings from inspiring English sources

Instead, the movie calls attention to a set of killings that were never given as fair and thorough a hearing as they deserved.

However, Thomson fails to escape the attention of the police who, led by an explosively foulmouthed Ray Winstone, are desperate to secure a result on the bigger set of killings.

The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the continuing investigation, said that the investigators believed that the soldier, Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, left his Afghanistan base and carried out the first set of killings, returned to the combat outpost and then, sometime later that evening, went out and attacked a second village.

Manson and his followers were arrested some weeks later (on suspicion of stealing cars), and it took some time not only for police to connect them to the murders but even for the two sets of killings to be linked to each other.

There are growing questions about Obama's response to a prominent set of police killings of unarmed black men and children that have raised questions about alleged discriminatory policing and impunity.

The Governor is still out there, and still set on killing Rick and his group of survivors at all costs.

In any case, the study ended four months after the bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samarra helped set off a wave of killings throughout Baghdad and other mixed Sunni-Shiite areas.

He also said that he had informed Congress about every planned drone strike outside of Iraq and Afghanistan and that he had ordered his administration to prepare a strict, written set of rules for targeted killings in the future.

The killing set of a wave of protests in the town, with many criticizing the military-style police tactics against demonstrators.

In 2002, for the first time in China's communist history, power was smoothly transferred from one set of leaders to another without killings or purgings.

It's bad enough when the president directs the extrajudicial killings by handpicking a set of discrete targets.