Immediately after the assassination he raced from Montreal to New York, where he was closeted in a five-hour locked-door meeting. |
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Earlier injuries would be crucial in identifying Uday, who was hit by 17 bullets in an assassination attempt in 1996 that left him with a limp. |
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Second, you must submit to a two-and-a-half year purgatory of character assassination and blatant distortion of your record as a public official. |
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Forced expulsion and mass ethnic cleansing were added to the human rights abuse record of torture, disappearance, and assassination. |
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He clearly did not want another plan for his assassination to be contrived. |
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The names of the 7,785 election candidates, many of them former exiles, have not been published for fear of assassination. |
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Having said that, we in the media must abide by the principles of telling the truth, and not engage in character assassination. |
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However, the attempted character assassination of Margo plumbs new depths and raises wider questions. |
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The agency, he said, had gone as far as establishing hit squads to carry out the assassination when the opportunity arose. |
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I think in an open democracy people ought to have a right to express themselves without fear of character assassination. |
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But they do not have the freedom to entertain some people at the expense of some others, and to indulge in character assassination. |
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Prior to his assassination, he had proclaimed that Guinea-Bissau would declare its independence from Portugal in that year. |
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Now he is suffering character assassination through leaks and attacks under parliamentary privilege. |
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The unwarranted accusations could only be seen as character assassination and should have no place in a tribunal, he said. |
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A parallel campaign of vilification and character assassination is also being launched against me. |
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Meanwhile, the right-wing demonstrates its abhorrence of defamatory character assassination and smear jobs here. |
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During the trial he became so fearful of assassination that he had steel plates sewn into his hat. |
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The attack was unprovoked and it seems he was selected at random for assassination. |
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Towards the end, the campaign took on a markedly personal form with character assassination and mudslinging becoming the order of the day. |
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The assassination of Hariri led to the recall of the US ambassador from Damascus and warnings about Syrian sponsorship of terrorism. |
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Seriously, this is really more character assassination and it's disturbing to see wise and intelligent people discussing this in these terms. |
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The assassination of leading journalists and editors reflected the logic of attacks against all forces not directly aligned with the radicals. |
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If that is true it is a truly damning confession of character assassination by the man who is the president's most trusted advisor. |
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A gangland war erupts that sees assassination attempts, violent reprisals, and an ever-rising body count. |
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As far as Hamlet was concerned, revenging a death was the best reason for an assassination. |
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In his usual manner, he refused to be drawn into politics of insults and character assassination as being perpetuated by some opposition leaders. |
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They have indulged in character assassination, slander and libel, and the sloppiest, least scientific thinking imaginable. |
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Julius Caesar's assassination in 44 BC was followed by the development of imperial rule, headed by the first emperor, Augustus. |
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In the immediate term, hiding Dutch politicians in safe houses to protect them from assassination is probably necessary. |
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Worst of all, if the agency concluded that she didn't intend to go through with the assassination, they would take her out. |
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Vendettas and character assassination have wrecked the last three Conservative leaderships. |
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The Washington Post reviews a novel excoriating the president and discussing assassination. |
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You must not underrate the difficulties of my undertaking, or imagine that a mere commonplace assassination would meet the case. |
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Despite a deceptively calm and authoritative tone, she engages in nothing less than character assassination. |
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And they lost all compunction about tarring the opposition with outright lies and character assassination. |
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The rest were drawn, or abandoned because of bad weather, crowd trouble, or assassination. |
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Another details his assassination at Sarajevo in June 1914 including ghoulishly exhibiting the blood-stained shirt he was wearing at the time. |
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In one 12-hour period, assassination attempts were mounted on as many as five politicians from a moderate party. |
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The morality of sanctioned assassination depends mainly on whether and when one can justify murder. |
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Moreover, tyrannicide is intrinsically interesting, involving as it does political assassination or attempted assassination. |
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Going by the rage and anger that the assassination has sparked, the world should brace itself for more violence and bloodletting. |
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Last August he was the target of an assassination attempt, when gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on his car. |
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There have always been many unanswered questions about the assassination of Martin Luther King. |
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Whether his death was caused by heart attack or assassination is still uncertain. |
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The criminal underworld was considering hiring foreign hit-men for a possible assassination attempt. |
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In all fairness, these issues do not require character assassination, lying and name-calling. |
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Those who masterminded the assassination of Prime Minister Gandhi remain unpunished. |
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The use of abusive language and mudslinging or character assassination should be avoided at any cost. |
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Following the assassination of his father, he rejected all plans of liberal reform, suppressing Russian nihilists and Populists. |
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But the star had been brooding on his own mortality since the assassination of President John F Kennedy three years earlier. |
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He worked as a speech-writer for Robert Kennedy, a career cut short by JFK's assassination. |
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Democracy under the Republic was decaying to the point at which political assassination was a commonplace. |
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He was sick of the personal vitriol and unfounded character assassination that was arriving via Letters to the Editor. |
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In AD 656, after the assassination of Uthman, the third caliph, Ali ascended to the caliphate. |
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Jackson has spent his last three albums in a spitting rage about perceived harassment, character assassination and general obloquy. |
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Then an elaborate plot was hatched to concoct the perfect assassination of the world leader. |
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Because assassination is an act of war, such activities should always be considered a military operation. |
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Beyond the Nixon saga, the book consists mostly of disjointed ramblings about assassination plots. |
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If Moylan was correct, this goes some way toward explaining the puzzle of the timing of McGee's assassination. |
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The context is that a pill popping fascist gasbag who popularized hatespin and character assassination is getting a taste of his own medicine. |
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The attempted assassination was an act both of expiation and of restitution. |
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Even after the assassination, it was by no means predetermined that war would result. |
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A satisfying character assassination may be achieved without opening the mouth, or taking the top off a fountain pen. |
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Now, amidst all the stonewalling and foot-dragging and character assassination I guess this matter won't get top-billing. |
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The film is an intimate portrait of a woman and her mission of assassination. |
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The assassination of the French revolutionary Marat while in prison was immortalized in J.L. David's famous painting. |
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On June 28, 1914, after days of rumors about possible assassination attempts, the archducal car was attacked by means of a bomb thrown from the large surrounding crowds. |
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A young student in 1984, he maintains Blue Star and the massacres after Indira Gandhi's assassination created a religious revival among British Sikhs. |
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Turner, a Hoover-era G-man, revisits the most significant cases in his FBI career including the Kennedy assassination, the Bay of Pigs and Watergate. |
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The onlooking Romans were stunned and horrified, and Brutus immediately arranged for a public funeral where he could placate the masses by justifying the assassination. |
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Within hours of the attempted assassination, helicopter gunships strafed the village and hundreds of its inhabitants, including men, women and children, were rounded up. |
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After slyly gaining entrance to the castle and accidentally saving the king from an assassination attempt, he is given prestige and title by the thankful ruler. |
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And if somebody wants to take you out and creates an assassination contract on your head, then the hitman gets your picture to familiarize himself with the face he's to kill. |
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After a century of suspicion, ridicule, character assassination and scientific debunking, Freud has not only survived, but grown into a figure of mythic proportions. |
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This sort of fraud and calculated character assassination needs to be forthrightly condemned by everyone, irrespective of their political orientation. |
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It is as hard for a man to escape assassination as it is to lay a ghost. |
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Young was so at ease with his power and patriotism that the former deputy head of MI6 once ordered, between pink gins, the assassination of the president during the crisis. |
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After the assassination of Julius Caesar and seizure of power by the Second Triumvirate, Brutus and Cassius were left commanding republican forces in the east. |
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The panel's report amounts to a shameless cave-in to a well orchestrated and politically motivated campaign of harassment and character assassination. |
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The country faces international censure for its alleged involvement in the assassination. |
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And to suggest that character assassination is a recent import into politics is to forget that rivalry and its associated black arts are as old as politics itself. |
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A nation rightly proud of its tolerance and broad-mindedness has come together, united by its horror at the country's first political assassination of the modern era. |
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But there are solid grounds for believing that the police deliberately set off on a mission of assassination and cold-bloodedly murdered him in his bed. |
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The group hoped the assassination of the new President would destabilize the government. |
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The most chilling of these, involving assassination squads and germ warfare, were only fully revealed during the investigations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. |
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The Journal's modus operandi included slander and character assassination. |
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Bill's connections are more direct but his statements struck me as an interest in full consideration rather than in character assassination or iconoclasm. |
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This assassination had almost as many motives as it had conspirators. |
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The day of the assassination bid was also the feast of Our Lady of Fatima. |
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Given the propensity of the Macedonian aristocracy to assassination, foul play featured in multiple accounts of his death. |
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Action should be taken against those who are behind my character assassination. |
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The movie failed to satisfy her curiosity about the assassination. |
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It had not helped the duke to build himself a cannonproof stone chamber to sleep in for dread of vengeance after the assassination of Orleans. |
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Mark Antony, Caesar's lieutenant, condemned Caesar's assassination, and war broke out between the two factions. |
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Most of the conspirators were senators, who had a variety of economic, political, or personal motivations for carrying out the assassination. |
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After surviving an assassination attempt, Edward left for Sicily later in the year, never to participate in a crusade again. |
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After Louis's assassination, the Armagnac family took political power in opposition to John. |
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To expand his power, Napoleon used these assassination plots to justify the creation of an imperial system based on the Roman model. |
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The war began with the Austrian attack invasion of Serbia on 28 July 1914, in response to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
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The Awami League waged a series of strikes against the government after an assassination attempt on former premier Sheikh Hasina. |
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Details of the assassination attempt were allegedly known by the principal Jesuit of England, Father Henry Garnet. |
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They play a couple whose son is kidnapped to prevent them from interfering with an assassination. |
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Eventually, Renault sold AMC to Chrysler in 1987 after the assassination of Renault's chairman, Georges Besse. |
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Bombing, assassination and street violence formed a backdrop to life throughout the Troubles. |
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Commodus' assassination in 192 triggered the Year of the Five Emperors, of which Septimius Severus emerged victorious. |
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Kors points to the fact that Pope John had been the victim of an assassination attempt via poisoning and sorcery. |
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By the end of February, Bothwell was generally believed to be guilty of Darnley's assassination. |
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From these letters it was clear that Mary had sanctioned the attempted assassination of Elizabeth. |
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Henry spent much of his reign defending himself against plots, rebellions and assassination attempts. |
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The 1986 assassination of Olof Palme and with the end of the Cold War, Sweden has adopted a more traditional foreign policy approach. |
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In February 44 BC, one month before his assassination, he was appointed dictator for life. |
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This means that for two thousand years after Julius Caesar's assassination, there was at least one head of state bearing his name. |
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On 26 October 1954, Alexandria's Mansheya Square was the site of a failed assassination attempt on Gamal Abdel Nasser. |
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Hosni Mubarak came to power after the assassination of Sadat in a referendum in which he was the only candidate. |
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The film, directed by Santosh Sivan, depicts a failed assassination attempt on da Gama by an Indian. |
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Amaury III of Montfort and many other barons rose up against Henry, and there was an assassination plot from within his own household. |
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If he were to die from natural causes or fall victim to assassination, Rome could be subjected to another round of civil war. |
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Although Sextus survived the defeat, it is unknown whether he was involved in the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar. |
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A highly detailed account of the plot and the assassination is provided by Suetonius. |
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Several days prior to the assassination, Minerva had appeared to the emperor in a dream. |
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On the day of the assassination, Domitian was distressed and repeatedly asked a servant to tell him what time it was. |
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It was the rumor of Alexander's death that triggered the assassination of Elagabalus and his mother. |
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With Severus' own army growing with animosity and turning against him, the path for his assassination was paved. |
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Lampridius documents two theories that elaborate on Severus's assassination. |
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A German servant entered the tent and initiated the call for Alexander's assassination, at which point many of the troops joined in the attack. |
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Alexander's attendants fought against the other troops but could not hold off the combined might of those seeking the Emperor's assassination. |
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Following Amalaric's assassination in 531, another Ostrogothic ruler, Theudis took his place. |
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Eleven days after Orsini's assassination attempt in France, Victoria's eldest daughter married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in London. |
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In addition, Sri Lankan male dancers witnessed the assassination of Caligula. |
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It was signed on 28 June 1919 in Versailles, exactly five years after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. |
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Some few will be content with the success they have had in the assassination of their leader and will not care very much who the successor is. |
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It is about the failed assassination of the president of France and an ex-military cop named Jack Reacher. |
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The latest in a popular series of gritty war games has a whole section devoted to an assassination and car chase in Dubai. |
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She doesn't deserve to be subjected to the character assassination launched by Gavin. |
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I AM utterly disgusted at the character assassination of Dafydd Iwan following the disabled parking occurrence on Gwynedd Council premises. |
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Anti-regime media outlets Sunday said the commander of the Raqqa Rebels Brigade survived an assassination attempt in Urfa, Turkey. |
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But his calculated assassination of five of his team-mates last week on MUTV was just the kind of lowlife potshot you'd expect from a vacuous ned. |
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Additionally, officials said gunmen shot Judge Munir Hadad in his hand during a drive-by shooting on a highway in central Baghdad in a failed assassination attempt. |
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After the assassination of his friend Julius Caesar, he formed an alliance with Octavian and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, known to historians as the Second Triumvirate. |
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The 1993 assassination of Burundi's Hutu president by Tutsi military officers precipitated a Hutu massacre of Tutsi, with subsequent Tutsi reprisals. |
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Egypt's interior minister survived an assassination attempt unscathed on Thursday when a car bomb blew up next to his convoy and gunmen strafed his vehicle. |
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The government has blocked the websites since Saturday, accusing them of committing character assassination and insulting people, including key political leaders. |
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The Septuagint veteran journalist Shihab al-Tamimi was killed in an assassination attempt carried out by unknown gunmen in Waziriya district, central Baghdad. |
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Their efforts aim to end the political crisis that erupted in the aftermath of the assassination of the opposition lawmaker Mohamed Brahmi in July. |
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Many of the insults go well beyond the accustomed malignment of political opponents and are better labelled as character assassination and demonization. |
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Watson once again left ringsiders licking their lips for more with his almost punch-perfect assassination of Wyatt, who quit on his stool at the end of the fourth. |
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He said that the tactic same to assassination attack on BB was applied on Maulana the assassinator first conducted firing then blast was detonated. |
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In September 2000 General Guei, who had inflamed the anti-northern atmosphere by attacking believers in democracy as xenophilous, escaped an assassination attempt. |
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Yemeni security services have repeatedly blamed militants of the Yemen-based al-Qaida offshoot for a series of assassination attacks, mostly in the country's southern regions. |
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Many suspected that the assassination was related to a corruption scandal which swept the Socialist Party, and the national government in general, after Cools' death. |
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The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 initiated a month of unsuccessful diplomatic attempts to avoid war. |
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Andrew Johnson, who became president after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, was denied the opportunity to appoint a justice by a reduction in the size of the Court. |
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His mother Elena Glinskaya initially acted as regent, but she died of what many believe to be assassination by poison, in 1538 when Ivan was only eight years old. |
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He was finally overthrown when Isaac Angelos, surviving an imperial assassination attempt, seized power with the aid of the people and had Andronikos killed. |
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As he had done in 1819, after the Kotzebue assassination, Metternich used the popular demonstration at Hambach to push conservative social policy. |
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Thus, to preserve her own position, she had Elagabalus adopt the young Alexander and then arranged for Elagabulus' assassination, securing the throne for Alexander. |
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According to Cassius Dio, the conspirators approached Nerva as a potential successor prior to the assassination, suggesting that he was at least aware of the plot. |
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After Domitian's assassination, the senators of Rome rushed to the Senate house, where they immediately passed a motion condemning his memory to oblivion. |
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According to Eutropius, around 60 men participated in the assassination. |
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Shortly before his assassination, the Senate named him censor for life and Father of the Fatherland, and the month of Quintilis was renamed July in his honour. |
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Shortly before his assassination, he passed a few more reforms. |
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In 1978, Dianne Feinstein assumed the office following the assassination of George Moscone and was later selected by the board to finish the term. |
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According to Katherine Frank, Gandhi's assassination resulted in an explosion of violence against Sikh communities and the killing of thousands of Sikhs throughout India. |
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The assassination marked the end of any attempt of a reconciliation between the two factions Armagnacs and Burgundians, thus playing into the hands of Henry V of England. |
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After the assassination of Caligula in AD 41, the Senate briefly considered restoring the republic, but the Praetorian Guard proclaimed Claudius emperor instead. |
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Kennedy's assassination in November 1963 caused a profound shock and sadness expressed by many politicians, religious leaders, and luminaries of literature and the arts. |
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Through Nelson, FRU helped loyalists target people for assassination. |
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This included article six, which demanded that Austrian delegates be allowed in Serbia for the purpose of participation in the investigation into the assassination. |
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On 26 August 2015, the UUP announced it would withdraw from the Executive and form an opposition after all, in response to the assassination of Kevin McGuigan. |
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King Henry II of England, did penance at the cathedral of Avranches on 21 May 1172 and was absolved from the censures incurred by the assassination of Thomas Becket. |
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The Lerner and Loewe musical was still quite recent at the time and his widow Jackie quoted its lines in a 1963 Life interview following JFK's assassination. |
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After the assassination of Benazir Bhutto in 2007, the PPP secured the most votes in the elections of 2008, appointing party member Yousaf Raza Gillani as Prime Minister. |
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After Lord Darnley's assassination in 1567, Mary contracted an even more unpopular marriage with the Earl of Bothwell, who was widely suspected of Darnley's murder. |
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For some years Waifer strenuously carried on an unequal struggle with the Franks, but his assassination in 768 marked the demise of Aquitaine's relative independence. |
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In 1053 Edward ordered the assassination of the south Welsh prince Rhys ap Rhydderch in reprisal for a raid on England, and Rhys's head was delivered to him. |
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His survival led to his being declared Emperor by the Praetorian Guard after Caligula's assassination, at which point he was the last man of his family. |
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The assassination was led by Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus. |
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By this time, internal tensions led to a series of civil wars, culminating with the assassination of Julius Caesar, which led to the transition from republic to empire. |
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As another CIA officer, Bill Harvey, remarked, 'No one wanted to charge the president personally with the complete, dirty-handed details of the assassination plans. |
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