10 sentences with 'assassination'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assassination and other words derived from it.
• « Family politics may have been to blame for the assassination of Philip II, as his wife Olympias (Alexander's mother) may have ordered his murder, as well as the murder of his other wife and children. »
• « It is worth noting, however, that the theory of Olympias' involvement in the assassination of Philip II was once accepted as fact, but has faced sustained criticism for many years. »
• « Regardless of who was ultimately responsible for the assassination, Alexander of Macedon ascended the throne at the age of twenty after the death of his father, and remained loyal to his mother as long as she lived. »
• « From then on, rivalry and assassination remained an essential part of royal intrigue, but it was now carried out by assassins, and royal suitors who were killed were unlikely to be effective even if they survived. »
• « The compromise collapsed because of one particular incident, the attempted assassination of two Catholic imperial officials by Protestant nobles in Prague, when Emperor Ferdinand II attempted to crack down on Protestants in Bohemia (corresponding to today's Czech Republic). »
• « The group that killed Tsar Alexander II, Narodnaya Volia (the Will of the People), believed that the assassination of a tsar would lead to a huge uprising of the newly "liberated" peasants (i.e. the former serfs). »
• « Before the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, young members of the intelligentsia formed a social movement known as the Narodniks. The Narodniks advocated "returning to the people", living among the former serfs and trying to educate them, which they did during the spring of 1874. »
• « While the People's Will expected the assassination of Alexander II to result in a spontaneous peasant uprising against tsarist despotism, nothing of the sort happened. Instead, another reactionary tsar, Alexander III, ascended the throne and ruthlessly persecuted the terrorist groups. »
• « Two assassination attempts on the Kaiser, though carried out by men who had nothing to do with socialism, gave Bismarck the pretext, and the Reichstag immediately passed laws amounting to a ban on the Social Democratic Party of Germany itself. »
• « The immediate cause of the war was the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. »