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How to use the word assassinated in a Sentence?

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I think Russia is going to have significant challenges in trying to establish any sort of stable administration for these regions, because likely collaborators -- more prominent ones -- are going to be assassinated and others will be living in fear.

Michael Kofman

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think Burkinabe know now who Thomas Sankara was... what Thomas Sankara wanted and what those who assassinated Thomas Sankara wanted too.

Mariam Sankara

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This was an intentional murder. This individual approached the two men, one at a time, you see him looking around, making sure no one was around, kicking the homeless person to make sure they were not asleep and just assassinated him, it was just something you would not imagine would take place in New York City.

Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When I heard the interpreter who was doing the interview with Radio Mega Mega, I immediately knew that I was in danger, in danger because these were men that came and assassinated Haitian President. If they can assassinate Haitian President and I am just a simple citizen -- well I was scared for my life.

Malhaiko Senechal

Found on CNN
2 years ago

He beat and tortured my daughter and at the same time mentally assassinated her children, he showed her no mercy. Let’s show him no mercy.

Saidell Preston

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The same Department of Justice that has told me that if I leave the country that I could be assassinated, is the same Department of Justice that's trying to extradite me, it's very disappointing.

Chris Ahn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

President Trump recklessly assassinated Qasem Soleimani, president Trump had no evidence of an imminent threat or attack.

Pramila Jayapal

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

You have to understand my relationship with my sister – we have been through a hell of a lot together, everybody is like 'look, you come from this illustrious family, and everything is easy'. Actually it's not so easy. My father was assassinated, my grandmother was assassinated, huge political battles, wins in political battles, losses in political battles.

Indira Gandhi

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

More people are going to be assassinated, more people are going to suffer from domestic violence, more people are going to die, that's the reality. When I go and talk to them at the detention center ... they look at me and they tell me, 'I can't go back.'.

Carlos Garcia

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We did actually change a couple of things, the character that Riz Ahmed plays [ Aaron Kalloor — CEO and founder of Deep Dream ], in the original story when we originally shot it he was assassinated. But when we put the movie together his character was so interesting and was such a strong voice that we decided he should live.

Frank Marshall

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It’s a sad tale that former friends are seeking to take the company from its founder and 50 percent owner and put it on the block. But I have known these guys for a long time, i was totally blindsided by their threat that if I didn’t sell I would be bankrupted in court and have my character assassinated in the public square.

Raj Peter Bhakta

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A baby was assassinated right behind us in this alley.... We have gone to a new low.

Michael Pfleger

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

This is a different level, these are non-combatants now being assassinated... This is an innocent child, this is a 9-year-old child, targeted, lured to this spot and murdered. This is different.

Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What happened to Tyshawn Lee took us to a new low, this wasn't a drive-by. This was not a spray of bullets. A baby was executed. A baby was assassinated right behind us in this alley.

Michael Pfleger

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Someone got angry, someone took a gun and basically assassinated this gentleman.

Mayor Tom Barrett

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The regime hates this film because it shows Kim Jong Un as a man, not a God, he cries and is afraid like us and then he's assassinated.

Lee Min-bok

Found on CNN
9 years ago

He was assassinated by the Mafia because he was opposing their interests and their influence.

President Mattarella

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A number of our hero army members were assassinated this morning by the Islamic State in the Nawfaliyah area, the victims were assassinated, it was not confrontation.

Osama Abu Naji

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The victims were assassinated, it was not confrontation.

Osama Abu Naji

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto The people have realized that Martial Law is not law. A regime not established by law is devoid of the attribute to dispense law. A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.” ― Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, bOOK.If I Am Assassinated

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto

added by anonymous
9 years ago

He stood for peaceful change and the resolution of differences through conversations – not carnage, ten years ago today, he was assassinated because some feared he might succeed.

State John Kerry

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Law enforcement officials have been wrongfully targeted and even assassinated. It must stop, everyone is talking but no one is listening.

Mario Cuomo

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Officer Ramos was assassinated because he represented all of us.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They were, quite simply, assassinated -- targeted for their uniform, our city is in mourning. Our hearts are heavy.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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