assassination
暗杀,刺杀,刺杀案,暗杀案
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- : the premeditated act of killing someone suddenly or secretively, especially a prominent person: The meticulous way in which the journalist's assassination was carried out has led to suspicions that his killers were professionals working for state security.
- : the act of destroying or harming treacherously and viciously: They went after me with everything they had, engaging in character assassination and in destroying my reputation—a complete fabrication and frame-up.
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I sat through a ludicrous number of kidnappings, plane crashes and assassination attempts involving various Ewings.
They were not hardcore extremists with a well-developed project such as a bombing or an assassination, the kind of threat FBI agents monitor with intercepts and informants and in chatrooms.
Now, exactly two months before his assassination, he delivered a sermon with an uncannily prescient message.
His mother and father were at Ebenezer when they learned of their eldest son’s assassination.
Johnson later told the Los Angeles Times that the assassination “was one of the most devastating moments in my life.”
Assassination was something that occurred in other countries, other centuries.
Case Closed: Oswald and the Assassination of JFK author Gerald Posner reports.
There was only one book about which he never wrote back– the 1993 Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
Assassination and incendiarism were the common instruments of this diabolical association of fanaticism and bigotry.
Assassination, as recommended by the modern Hamilcar, is by no manner of means to our taste.
Assassination, however, rather than duel, seems to have been the word applicable to the combat.
Assassination, however, finally convinced him: his head was exhibited over the Gate of the Shambles at Granada for thirty years.
Seeing this, and conscious of his maladministration of the government, Assassination of Apollonides.