Sentences with 'assassinations'
Example sentences and phrases with the word assassinations and other words derived from it.
• « After seizing control of the caliphate, the Abbasids went on a series of concerted assassinations, trying to eliminate all possible Umayyad competitors, and only one member of the Umayyad leadership survived. »
• « A series of Turkic dynasties throughout the region began in 998 under the Ghaznavids in Persia, but the history of those dynasties is a litany of invasions, assassinations and collapses, typically after a few generations of tottering rule. »
• « More assassinations followed, including those of the Duke of Guise and the King. The only heir to the throne was Henry of Navarre himself, as he had married into the royal family, so after a climactic battle in 1594 he was declared Henry IV of France. »