Sentence examples for upon the assassination from inspiring English sources

Daniel Patrick Moynihan adduced this chestnut of Hibernian Weltschmerz on Nov. 22, 1963, upon the assassination of the patriarch's son.

Elected vice president on the Republican ticket of 1880, Arthur acceded to the presidency upon the assassination of President James A. Garfield.

The son of King Edgar (ruled 959 975), Ethelred ascended the throne upon the assassination of his half brother King Edward the Martyr in March 978.

Upon the assassination of Henry IV (May 14 , 1610 the Parlement of Paris proclaimed Marie regent for young King Louis XIII.

A grandnephew of the emperor Franz Joseph, Charles became heir presumptive to the Habsburg throne upon the assassination of his uncle Franz Ferdinand (June 28 , 1914, whose children were barred from succession because of his morganatic marriage.

WHEN Joseph Kabila became president of the Democratic Republic of Congo in January, upon the assassination of his father, Laurent Kabila, it looked like a fix to maintain his father's cronies in power.

This depiction of their relationship tracks with the impression Maureen Orth gives in Vulgar Favors, the book upon which The Assassination of Gianni Versace is based: Madson was reportedly attracted by Cunanan's lavish spending.

Two others escaped on their own before the agreed-upon moment for the assassination attempt, taking with them some of the group's provisions.

The sonata, which Sessions began upon hearing of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, has a slow-fast-slow structure similar to that of Mr. Jenks's work.

The book opens with a chronicle of her return to Pakistan in October after eight years of exile and the assassination attempt upon her return.

Upon returning to work after the assassination attempt, Seward warned France that the U.S. still wanted the French gone from Mexico.