5 sentences with 'assassinate'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assassinate and other words derived from it.
• « Young Spartan men in training were sent out to assassinate any group they found. All this was to ensure that the colonists were too terrified and discouraged to resist Spartan domination. »
• « A young German Catholic attempted to assassinate Bismarck in 1874, which only made him more determined to press ahead with his campaign. »
• « In 1914, the Black Hand trained a group of (ethnically Serb) university students in Bosnia to assassinate an Austrian politician when the opportunity arose. This happened in June 1914, when Franz Ferdinand and his wife came to visit the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo. »
• « Charles de Gaulle temporarily appeased the French army, but when it became clear that he intended to pull France out of Algeria, a paramilitary terrorist group tried twice to assassinate him. »
• « When he was about to return, he was informed that the governor of Córdoba, José Vicente Reinafé, and his brothers were determined to assassinate him. »