For in the first place the battles, and in the second place the assassinations at home which occurred again as in the Sullan régime, destroyed all the flower of them except those actually concerned in the murders.
But on the subject of the insults which he offered to the State and the assassinations which he caused throughout the whole city alike how can any man be silent?
He had occupied Sicily, and then, when the order of proscription was passed against him, too, a host of assassinations took place, he aided greatly those who were in like condition.
Rome, an eye-witness asserts that several hundred assassinations were committed within the walls in a few days.
In England, there were almost none who would have anything to say to the political assassinations which repeatedly stained the annals of the nations of the Continent and of Scotland: a peculiarity remarked on in the Spanish correspondence.
But he also wrote in English A Succinct History of Ancient and Modern Persecutions, together with a short essay on Assassinations and Civil Wars, 1747.
Here revolutions have been plotted, dynasties have been overturned, assassinations have been coolly debated.
Assassinations from ambush are always difficult to prove and alibis are manufactured at small cost.
It is the fear of the bushwhacker that prevents concerted action of the law-abiding element in a community where assassinations from ambush are the common methods employed to rid one's self of an enemy.
The last feud in Breathitt County, during which the most horrible assassinations were committed, was the Hargis-Cockrell-Marcum-Callahan vendetta.
Although Curtis Jett, John Abner, John Smith and Mose Feltner (who figures so prominently in the Marcum statement), confessed in one way or another that the accused were the leaders in the assassinations of Dr.
When the news of the night attack and assassinations of January 1st were brought to him, he threw all caution to the winds.
If those entrusted with the execution of the law in Perry County had made one firm, unflinching effort to uphold its dignity, the period of assassinations would have ended then and there.
To lengthen the list of assassinations could serve no beneficent purpose.
Thus twenty-three out of about forty male believers were found guilty of the assassinations or of complicity in the plot.
In conversation he told me that Doctor Kheiralla had informed the Chicago assembly that the account of the assassinations as narrated by Professor Browne was true and that the Manifestation had a right to slay them.
Various and sundry other assassinationsfor the faith.
Our investigation has led to the conclusion that the Bahais were guilty of these assassinations as charged.
It would be tedious to mention all the assassinations with which Philip II.
But it was in the sixteenth century that French assassinations were of the most striking order.
England has contributed a large number of assassinations to the pages of that Newgate serial which is known by the grave name of history.
I ask this question because I have been studying the previous assassinations a good deal.
There are men who would not alone excuse, but glorify the assassinations and the assassins!
Details on the orgies of Bernard with the municipality, and on the drunkenness and debaucheries of Bourdon with the riff-raff~ of the country; authentic documents proving the robberies and assassinations committed by Bernard.
About the assassinations authorized by Hadrian: about his varied learning and jealousies (chapters 3, 4).
The assassinations committed by Clovis to gain possession of the territories of the petty kings who were his neighbors, bear no comparison to the horrors exhibited on this occasion by Alexander and his son.
When Ferdinand went to Bulgaria he is said to have resolved that if ever there were to be any assassinations he would be on the side of the assassins.
At night there were no public lights, and assassinations and robberies were far from infrequent.
No such purpose was expressed or hinted by the conspirators in Canada, who commissioned Booth to let these assassinations on contract.
John Wilkes Booth and John Harrison Surratt were the leaders of the conspiracy in Washington, they having proposed to their co-conspirators in Canada to accomplish for them the assassinations they had planned.
The effort to aid the rebellion by this step was contingent upon the accomplishment of all of the assassinations that had been planned.
The deep political scheme to give it a new lease of life and bring to its aid new elements of success by the assassinations that had been planned, had been too long delayed, and its execution had become utterly impracticable.
He was there aiding and abetting Booth, and co-ordinating the agencies employed in the execution of the plot, in order that all of the assassinations embraced in it might be simultaneously accomplished.
It was obvious that the occasion called for the most vigorous and decided measures on the part of the government to meet and overcome the strategy of assassinations just now entered upon.
His assassinationsof enemies were afterwards quoted as precedents in books of Tradition.
One of the sequels to the victory was a series of assassinations whereby critics of his actions were removed.
And I did it on purpose," rejoined Catherine, "in return for the small respect the Duke has paid me and my son, in committing assassinations beneath our eyes.
An hundred and eighty–six assassinations took place within the city in the first eighteen months after the death of Cosmo.
Such wars are nothing but massacres, assassinations and confiscations.
Whilst this defeat, without a battle, humiliated the French army, in its first step, at Quievrain, bloody assassinations stained our flag at Lille.
History has not put any faith in these pretended assassinations of La Fayette.
They were about five or six in number, and they are styled assassinations from there being no trials of the prisoners by a judge and a jury, nor by any systematic court-martial.
These executions, and certain other cases of murders not grounded on any credible evidences, are narrated by European biographers of Mohammad as assassinations committed through the countenance and connivance which he lent them.
The Bible tells us, that those assassinations were done by the express command of God.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "assassinations" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
