Sentence examples for slaying before from inspiring English sources

Prosecutors said they interviewed dozens of witnesses and spent nine months investigating the slaying before asking a judge to exonerate Johnson.

She was particularly critical of Mr. Jenoff, a former friend of the rabbi's who enlisted Mr. Daniels, his roommate, in the murder plot, and then worked as a detective for the rabbi, supposedly investigating the slaying, before he decided to confess.

In crossexaminating the detective, Mr. Koskoff tried to show that the police investigators were out to blame the Panther leadership for the slaying before there was any testimony to that effect.

Some were "slain before the eyes of their wives and children," according to a contemporary account.

Inflation hawks argue that the inflation dragon must be slayed before one sees the whites of its eyes: fail to act now and it will burn you in a year or two.

As Rodrigo Borgia he is comical in his self-regard and foppishness, ordering villages to be stripped of chattals or his enemies slayed before sinking back weakly into his papal throne, fingering the edges of his golden crown mumbling that God is verily moving within him.

A new brand aiming at the youth market has a lot of dragons to slay before it can make its mark, but perhaps an app platform will help Muzik find the right app partner to achieve critical mass.

Plutarch, Eumenes, 16. 83 Shortly before the death of Cambyses in 522 B.C., the Persian throne was usurped by a certain Magian who claimed to be Bardiya or Smerdis, a brother of Cambyses, whom the latter had slain before the Egyptian campaign.

But it is reasonable to suppose that because of the loss of their leaders and the sacking of their cities the few Cilicians that were left were placed under the command of Hector, for both Eëtion and his sons are said to have been slain before the Catalogue:1 "Verily my father was slain by the goodly Achilles, who utterly sacked the city of Cilicians, Thebê of the lofty gates.

In at least one case, authorities suspect that a Serbian village was raided at night and that all its residents were slain before it was destroyed.

Despite the fact that these young men and women were slain before they even got close to the border, Israel was intent on making itself out to be the victim.