assassination

How To Use assassination In A Sentence

• To buttress his stance that the Church sanctioned such assassinations, Petit drew on Thomas Aquinas and other theologians, but the defense rested on John of Salisbury's explicit theories about the legitimacy of tyrannicide.
• Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
• So he induces Ray to offer Jonathan a vast sum of money to undertake an assassination in Berlin - money which the seriously ill and impecunious Jonathan badly needs.
• During the trial he became so fearful of assassination that he had steel plates sewn into his hat.
• The character who seems most conscious that the ides of March falls within Lent is Brutus, especially in his account of the manner in which the assassination should be conducted.
• A country discovering a successfull assassination, supporting rebels or desecration of holy site now gets a casus belli against the offender.
• Torture of political detainees became widespread and systematic after the assassination of President Sadat in October 1981.
• During the 1976-83 period, operations included the assassination of police informers and perceived quislings, bank robberies and attacks on the security forces and police stations.
• After Julius Caesar's assassination, the triumvirs was formed, consisting of three determined men, Octavius Caesar, Mark Antony, and Lepidus, who shared the rule of the Roman Empire.
• The assassination somehow transfigured Kennedy into a modern American saint.