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assassinating - definition and meaning
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verb assassinate .
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Forbes.com: News E.D. Kain 2011
For example, as the president of an insurance company, would you have invested more in assassinating Saddam or invading Iraq?
Privatizing Defense vs. Socializing Medicine, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
Lee Harvey Oswald did NOT act alone in assassinating JFK!
Conspiracy theories a-go-go (Reposted) frankwu 2009
A thorough and enlightening biography of Earl Warren, a man responsible for no shortage of polarizing Supreme Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy.
Cover to Cover 2006
A thorough and enlightening biography of Earl Warren, a man responsible for no shortage of polarizing Supreme Court decisions: Brown v. Board of Education, Griswold v. Connecticut, and Miranda v. Arizona, as well as the conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating John F. Kennedy.
Cover to Cover 2006
Like Ed Marshall (88) I don’t see any difference in assassinating a US national vs. any other individual.
Matthew Yglesias » Our Strange Constitution 2010
Lauren Pierce, the president of the College Republicans at University of Texas at Austin, said on Twitter Wednesday that the idea of assassinating President Barack Obama was "tempting."
Lauren Pierce, President Of College Republicans At University Of Texas At Austin: Obama Assassination 'Tempting' 2011
So, he came up with the idea of assassinating Sadat during the military parade and that's what happened.
Passion for Islam: Shaping the Modern Middle East: The Egyptian Experience 2002
If you talk about a relic of the Cold War, the idea of assassinating people is putting right in bed along the likes of the Iraqis, the Saudis.
CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2001 2001
She concealed the death for four days and toyed with the notion of assassinating the prominent generals who might stand in the way of her son.
The History of the Former Han Dynasty 1938
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