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assassination

An assassination is the murder of someone, usually a political leader, for political reasons. The assassination of happened in 1963.

assassination

murder of a public figure by surprise attack (= character assassination) an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation

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Older people still remember the Kennedy assassination.
The U.S. Government has released thousands of files on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
There were assassination theories but it was not clear who would have killed him and for what reason. Even now the truth about his death is unclear.
Despite the government's protection, he was the victim of an assassination attempt which killed him.
The FBI thwarted an assassination attempt against Mayor Matt Brown.

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Compromised by her accomplice and lover Gurn in assassination of her husband lord Beltham, lady Beltham was discharged for lack of proof.
I'll leave, because I foresee an assassination.
Everything is going just fine, assassination is well premeditated.
Well, that is, nothing except an attempted assassination.
If the assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease success, that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here.
Bernard the Frenchman was sent to Morocco at our request to check up on an assassination plot here in London.
The Roman Empire collapsed with the assassination of Cesar - why?
Exposure, assassination.
This was, in fact, an assassination.
I was just telling the boys here, corrigan, my great-grandfather was on the police force here in washington the night of lincoln's assassination.
I was myself the victim of a loathsome assassination attempt.
I will not be your accomplice in the assassination of my own person!
The assassination group will embark at once in our time machine.
Assassination of Perringe, the French antimatter specialist who went over to the Russians, 3 million francs from the special department of the Quai d'Orsay.
Assassination attempts, that comes naturally with my profession.
I beg your majesty's pardon, but I think we've had enough of assassination attempts for today.
Your majesty, his excellency prince Metternich wants you to know. that it hadn't been an attempted assassination after all.
Any person aiding the escape of the assassination or providing him with shelter. will be executed.
Herr Standarten Fuhrer. during the time of the assassination of his Excellency. the late Reich Protector. at that very time, I was having lunch at the Golden Quail.
We demand an explanation. Where were you at the time of the assassination?
Mrs. Nimitz, last night you testified that on the day of the assassination. the cab brought a certain well dressed man to your rooming house.
I swear I am! The underground planted all of this to pin the assassination on me!
The assassination of His Majesty was their first step in that direction.
Men who have engineered one assassination, Watson, will not stop at another.
If the assassination could trammel up the consequence and catch with his surcease success, that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here. But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'ld jump the life to come.
An assassination attempt.
Though we made every precautionary check, we never went to extremes unless you were tipped about an assassination attempt.
Oh, just that assassination attempt on our Emperor.
When I was undergoing assassination training, what was emphasized on the most was this. Expression management.
You insist on the assassination of an irresponsible child?
If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch with his surcease success, that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here, but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'ld jump the life to come.
Whose assassination?
We're afraid of sabotage. Surgical assassination.
Surgical assassination?
Remember the orders on the assassination?
Or political assassination?
What can I do? I told you - help prevent an assassination.
Assassination!
Planning an assassination.
Subject? Subject: warning of an assassination plot.
No one will question the assassination of a captain who has disobeyed prime orders of the Empire.

News and current affairs

Indeed, America's gun culture is a threat to freedom, after the murder of a president, senator, and other public leaders, and countless assassination attempts against public officials over recent decades.
Such language is as extreme as any we hear today - and from a man who was shortly to become Vice President (and later President, following the assassination of William McKinley).
Not since Archduke Franz Ferdinand's assassination has a murder shaken Belgrade as much as the killing of Serbian Premier Zoran Djindjic.
With the bloody wars of the Yugoslav succession still etched deeply in everyone's minds, does Djindjic's assassination herald the end of an era of political violence or the dawn of a new one?
Djindjic himself narrowly escaped a highway assassination attempt only last month.
The more dangerous outcome is that the assassination may reinforce the belief in Serbia that only authoritarian rule is possible.
It is also possible that the assassination of selected individuals has slowed the advance of Iranian nuclear efforts.
The assassination of the President of Iraq's Governing Council makes it crystal clear that the US is failing to create the minimal law-and-order needed for any sort of orderly transfer of power to take place by June 30th.
Nor are the talks a Syrian ploy to avoid facing an international tribunal on the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, Rafik Hariri.
Tymoshenko, who has survived three assassination attempts, is not the type of woman to surrender her campaign on a technicality.
When he became Prime Minister in elections six months after the assassination of General Rabin, Mr. Netanyahu continued in this strategy of exclusion and confrontation.
This required the use of torture to identify and locate the leaders, followed by their capture or assassination.
Also, assassination by drones inevitably leads to the killing of innocent civilians - the very crime that defines terrorism.
Even putting aside moral and legal questions - which one should never do - it is doubtful whether the strategy of torture and assassination can achieve its pacifying purpose.
When media outlets aren't owned - and tamed - by the authorities or people close to them, they still face censorship, intimidation, tax audits, and occasionally assassination of their journalists and editors.
The unprecedented demonstrations against Syria's occupation of Lebanon following the assassination of its former prime minister, Rafiq al-Hariri, show no signs of abating.
It is this page that has been probably fully closed with the assassination of Politkovskaya.
Breaking the sequence of Israeli assassination followed by Palestinian suicide bombing requires a change of thinking and action.
NEW YORK - The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, has focused attention on his country's draconian blasphemy law.
The central issue is a demand by all opposition parties and civil society groups to amend the 1971 constitution and abolish the 23-year-old State of Emergency that was imposed following Anwar Sadat's assassination in 1981.
For example, the alleged 2003 coup plot was supposedly discovered when CDs containing detailed preparations (including assassination teams and plans to bomb two mosques) were delivered to a virulently anti-military newspaper.

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