12 sentences with 'assassinated'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assassinated and other words derived from it.
• « Darius I came to power after leading a conspiracy that may have assassinated Cambyses II's younger brother Bardiya, who had ruled briefly. »
• « Unfortunately for Philip II, he was assassinated by one of his bodyguards in 336 BC, only two years after conquering Greece. »
• « Darius III fled east but was assassinated by Persian nobles, who hoped to retain their own independence (this didn't work - Alexander the Great thoroughly hunted down the assassins over the next few years). »
• « Here, he even lost the support of his former allies in Rome, and committed suicide in 121 BC rather than be assassinated by another band of assassins sent by the senators. »
• « The Gracchus reforms were temporarily successful: although both were assassinated, the central Gracchus effort to redistribute land achieved its goal. »
• « Pompey himself escaped to Egypt, where he was quickly assassinated by agents of Ptolemy's court who had read the proverbial writing on the wall and knew that Julius Caesar was the new power to deal with in Rome. »
• « According to this, Domitian became increasingly paranoid and violent between 89 and 96 AD, until he was finally assassinated in the palace. »
• « Emperor Severus Alexander was assassinated in 235 CE. All but one of the emperors who followed over the next fifty years were either assassinated or died in battle as well; there were twenty-six emperors in those fifty years, and only one died of natural causes. »
• « Many emperors remained on the throne for only a few months before they were assassinated. Not surprisingly, in this environment, most emperors were only concerned with taking the throne or staying alive once they had it, meaning that they tended to neglect everything important to the stability of the Empire. »
• « Rome's internal political problems were in some ways of its own making: the Praetorian Guard auctioned off the throne, would-be emperors eagerly assassinated their rivals, and Roman elites largely retreated to their huge estates to profit from their serfs. »
• « The second caliph, Umar, was assassinated by a slave in 644 and Muslim leaders had to choose the next caliph. They chose an early convert and companion of Muhammad, Uthman. »