Synonym: blackwash, character assassination. Similar words: classification, passionate, association, nomination, rumination, combination, domination, inclination. Meaning: [ə‚sæsɪ'neɪʃn] n. 1. an attack intended to ruin someone's reputation 2. murder of a public figure by surprise attack.
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151. This has been well demonstrated in the case of the unsuccessful assassination of President Reagan.
152. Following the assassination of Martin Luter king ours was an unquiet nation.
153. Also available are: the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination; Dahlstrom glass plates of New York from the 1880's; and Hugo Jaeger Nazi-era Germany 1937-1944.
154. The Mossad, Israel's spy agency, has an impressive record of infiltrating assassination teams into Arab capitals.
155. I whitening little hand engraved with the assassination of a streak, neck stiffness were bend.
156. Are we in the character assassination business or are we in the union business?
157. Did Edwin Stanton, Lincoln's power-obsessed Secretary of War, play a role in the assassination?
158. Arliss Loveless, who plots the assassination of the President of the United States.
159. The great-nephew and adopted son of Julius Caesar, he took the name Augustus on becoming sole ruler in 27BC after the civil wars that followed Julius Caesar's assassination.
160. The whole country was thrown out of gear by the assassination of the President.
161. Anti-Syrian Druze leader Walid Jumblatt blamed Syria for Gemayel's assassination and said he expected more killings aimed at undermining parliament's ruling majority.
162. Visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin insisted on Monday in Wiesbaden of Germany that he would visit Iran later Monday despite reports on possible assassination plot against him.
163. Corday: French Revolutionary heroine who was guillotined for the assassination of Jean Paul Marat in 1793.
164. The assassination attempt that failed in July 1944 was witless and traitorous.
165. He allowed his son to escape recrimination for his involvement in the assassination attempt.
166. A team from Scotland Yard will help Pakistan investigate the assassination of former Premier Benazir Bhutto.
167. The assassination of the political leader was detailed in all the newspapers.
168. Such developments were responsible for the assassination of Nasser’s successor, Anwar Sadat, in 1981,[sentencedict.com/assassination.html] and for later terrorist attacks against tourists.
169. To the outside world, Israel's assassination of Ahmed Yassin looks either indefensible or inexplicable or both.
170. Moslem caliph ( 656 - 661 ) after whose assassination Islam was divided into Sunnite and Shiite sects.
171. s assassination, but turned it down), for assisting the French Resistance during World War II and for being the first American-born woman to receive the French military honor, the Croix de guerre.
172. A new video game allows players to simulate the assassination of U. S. President John F. Kennedy.
173. The new of assassination of president Lincoln spread like wildfire.
174. He thinks the suspect may be vital to the Palmer assassination attempt.
175. They also revealed that the Pakistani army considered forcing out President Asif Ali Zardari, who made contingency plans for his assassination.
176. After a series of assaults, gunfights, and an attempted assassination of Frick, the strike was broken.
177. Emperor of Rome (37-4) who succeeded his adoptive father, Tiberius. After a severe illness, he displayed the ruthlessness, extravagance, and megalomania that led to his assassination.
178. Said by: Czar Alexander II of Russia after an anarchist assassination attempt. He died of his wounds mere hours later.
179. The Iranians planned to hire a man they believed was a member of a Mexican drug cartel and pay him $1.5 million to carry out the assassination, the U.S. said.
180. But I still believe that political assassination can be said to be practised very extensively.
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