Sentence examples for were often murdered from inspiring English sources

Those he accused were often murdered.

People like her were often murdered by their so-called guards.

In the Army, internal-affairs agents were constantly on the lookout for potential traitors, who were often murdered to dissuade others.

Traficant emerged out of perhaps the last truly mobbed-up county in America, a place in Ohio's Mahoning Valley where people were often murdered or disappeared, and where, until an F.B.I. sting in the nineteen-nineties, the Mafia controlled virtually every aspect of society.

In past centuries and even decades, isolated tribes were often murdered and enslaved by outsiders.

The children in her care are often murdered.

Their crime, according to the tribal council that ordered the killing, was to have married within the same Hindu clan, or gotra, which many north Indians consider tantamount to incest.In Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, incautious lovers, especially young women, are quite often murdered by disapproving male relatives.

Under Duarte, Veracruz became one of the country's most violent states, and state police officials were often implicated in murders and forced disappearances.

Influenced by Mr Alègre's powerful friends, police were persuaded to turn a blind eye to the mysterious deaths of dozens of local women and prostitutes; suicide verdicts were often recorded when murder seemed the more obvious cause of death.

The 407 arrests represent a 55% rise on last year's total of 261, which brought a warning from the Met commissioner, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, that stabbings were often centimetres from being murders.

Lynchings, which took the form of hangings, shootings, beatings, and other acts of murder, were often public events, urged on by thousands, but by the nineteen-thirties the behavior of the crowds had begun to draw criticism in the North.