Sentence examples for wave of murders from inspiring English sources

From July 1976 until August 1977, Mr. O'Neill directed The News's coverage of a wave of murders by a man who called himself "Son of Sam".

The killing, part of a wave of murders of prominent Lebanese opponents of Syria, was generally believed to have been the work of Syrian forces.

This comes at a politically difficult time for Rahm Emanuel, Chicago's mayor, who is also struggling to curb a wave of murders in the city.

Bangladesh is reeling from a wave of murders of secular and liberal activists and religious minorities that have left around 50 people dead in the last three years.

See articleStill operating from prisonIn Brazil the federal justice minister set up a joint intelligence centre with the state of São Paulo to counter a wave of murders of police by a criminal gang based in the state's jails.

Flash-forward nine years, as London is swept by a wave of murders and Susan Anna Maxwell Martinnow now a homemaker and mother of two, thinks she has detected a pattern.

I still find it incomprehensible that he would release mentally ill criminals, prone to violence, onto an innocent population here in the United States with a wave of murder, rape and all manner of violent crimes going all the way up I-95 three years afterwards.

We have these daily waves of murders.

Waves of murder, kidnappings, threats and extortion have swelled in recent months, he said, forcing entire families to flee the state out of fear.

The former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri was assassinated in a huge explosion in February 2005, setting off a wave of political murders.

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