Sentences with phrase «killed by an assassin»

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And it was about a Russian dissident called, Alexander Litvinenko, who was famously murdered in 2006 with a radioactive cup of tea, poured by two assassins sent by the Kremlin to kill him.

There are plenty to note in recent decades: Poland's Jerzy Popiełusko, beaten and drowned by thugs in his country's police force; his compatriot St John Paul, surviving an assassin's bullet in St Peter's Square and an attempted stabbing by a schismatic priest; Archbishop Oscar Romero, slaughtered while celebrating Mass, Pakistan's Shabaz Bhatti, Minister for Minorities in his country's government, killed by a gunman in Islamabad in 2011.

Lyra and Will try to find Will's long - lost father, but Lyra is captured by her mother, Mrs. Coulter, who hides her from the Church to save her from an assassin sent to kill her lest she fulfill the prophecy of becoming the new Eve.

On March 24, 1980, not long after he voiced a plea to soldiers to disobey killing orders that were contrary to God's commandments and their moral convictions, he was gunned down by a rightist assassin while saying mass in the chapel of the hospital where he lived.

They recruited and trained a group of secret assassins called sicarii — which means «dagger - men» because of the deadly, curved dagger they carried hidden in their cloaks — and killed Roman politicians and soldiers by slitting their throat, or stabbing through the back to pierce the heart.

The plot to kill Mr al - Mabhouh, who has been chased by Israel for 20 years for his role in the kidnap and murder of two Israeli soldiers, was especially elaborate, as the 11 assassins entered Dubai posing as tourists, complete with wigs and fake beards.

Another time he became the first president to be shot by an assassin (unsuccessfully), and then proceeded to beat down his attacker with a cane (and not kill him).

The kin of the two assassins of late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who was killed by her bodyguards Oct 31, 1984, were Thursday honoured by.

So is the twist: For every assassin, there comes the moment when the transported figure in the hood is his future self, and the killer must «close the loop» by killing himself — homicide bleeding into suicide.

This time, specifically, he's an assassin who takes Ben Foster under his wing after his father, played by Donald Sutherland, is killed.

Keene must find a way to get Carden into police custody again before he gets killed, either by the assassins, or the crafty Carden himself.

20th Century Fox has released a new global trailer for the upcoming video game adaptation Hitman: Agent 47 ahead of its release later this month; check it out here... HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the -LSB-...]

HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck.

Honed from childhood into a merciless killing machine by a criminal organization, assassin Sook - hee is recruited as a sleeper agent with the promise of freedom after ten years of service - and she jumps at the chance for a normal life.

The audience first meets the titular feline during the aforementioned massacre, barely escaping after his drug lord owner is killed by a pair of silent assassins and eventually landing on the doorstep of recently dumped stoner Rell (Peele), whose spirits are quickly lifted by the lovable kitten, which he renames Keanu.

Moments into American Assassin, the franchise starter wannabe based on Vince Flynn's throwback pulp action - thriller series directed with competent anonymity by Michael Cuesta (Kill the Messenger, Roadie), Mitch Rapp (Dylan O'Brien, Teen Wolf, The Maze Runner series), a privileged, twenty - something vacationing on the island paradise of Ibiza with his girlfriend - turned - fiancée, Katrina (Charlotte Vega), loses everything to a jihadi terrorist attack.

Anyway, the tribes come together and hire a group of Akkadian assassins, led by Mathayus (The Rock), to kill the sorceress.

After all but one of a team of professional assassins known as Squad 701 are killed off by the government, the survivor known as Black Mask (Jet Li, The Legend II) hides out and takes a job in a library and pretends to be a nerd called Tsui.

Set in the Tang Dynasty (June 618 — June 907), the films will star frequent Hou collaborator Shu Qi (Three Times, Millennium Mambo), as a young woman who is trained in secret by a Taoist nun to become a ruthless assassin but is then asked to kill her lover (synopsis by Screen Daily).

Kidnapped four years earlier and forced into prostitution by Japanese crime lord Taiko (Hiroyuki Watanabe), Everly (Salma Hayek) has been working with the police to bring her captor down; he's found out and sent an army of assassins to kill her.

High - Rise is being directed by British filmmaker Ben Wheatley (Down Terrace, Kill List, Sightseers, A Field in England), produced by legendary producer Jeremy Thomas (The Last Emperor, Sexy Beast, A Dangerous Method, 13 Assassins, Kon - Tiki, Only Lovers Left Alive).

For those who don't know, HITMAN: AGENT 47 centers on an elite assassin (Rupert Friend) who was genetically engineered from conception to be the perfect killing machine, and is known only by the last two digits on the barcode tattooed on the back of his neck.

Hanna is about a young assassin (Saoirse Ronan) trained to kill in the frozen wilderness by Eric Bana.

His mission: kill three assassins dispatched by their cunning leader.

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It focuses on only a half - dozen characters — the nameless protagonist (Jet Li), three legendary rebel assassins (Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, and Donnie Yen), a student (Zhang Ziyi), and the king they're all plotting to kill (Chen Daoming)-- but it mostly takes place in a massive palace, surrounded by hundreds of armored guards ready to fire arrows like a cloud of locusts.

As written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (The Chronicles of Narnia, You Kill Me is a surprisingly resonant examination of getting sober, made amusing by the assassin's increasing honesty about his career.

An astonishingly terrible debut, Killing Gunther follows several assassins, led by Taran Killam's Blake, as they come together to take down a fearsome and mysterious hitman called Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger)- with the film detailing the oddball crew's ongoing efforts at finding and killing Schwarzenegger's slippery chaKilling Gunther follows several assassins, led by Taran Killam's Blake, as they come together to take down a fearsome and mysterious hitman called Gunther (Arnold Schwarzenegger)- with the film detailing the oddball crew's ongoing efforts at finding and killing Schwarzenegger's slippery chakilling Schwarzenegger's slippery character.

Based on a book by Ranulph Fiennes, Killer Elite follows retired special forces soldier Danny Bryce (Jason Statham) as he reluctantly agrees to kill three assassins after his mentor (Robert DeNiro's Hunter) is kidnapped by a ruthless sheik - with the film subsequently revolving around Danny's ongoing efforts at both completing his mission and avoiding the advances of an increasingly tenacious former operative (Clive Owen's Spike Logan).

Other characters, like Helen Mirren's remorseless assassin Victoria and Brian Cox» former Russian agent Ivan, return (She's been assigned by MI6 to kill her old friends; he has a foot fetish), and others, like Byung - hun Lee's world - class assassin Han and Catherine Zeta - Jones» ex-KGB agent (without a trace of a Russian dialect) Katja turn up for the first time (He's been hired by Horton to kill the trio; she's Frank's «kryptonite»).

In John Frankenheimer's paranoiac Cold War parable, undercover subversive Eleanor Shaw Iselin (Angela Lansbury) takes manipulation to a terrifying extreme: Her son Raymond (Laurence Harvey) is an assassin conditioned to kill by a foreign power, and Eleanor is the operative responsible for controlling him.

007 seems more interested in nailing a criminal than in fulfilling the desires of the beautiful Lucia Sciarra (Monica Bellucci), who plays the widow of an assassin killed by Bond.

New Mutants # 98 - written by Fabian Nicieza, illustrated by Rob Liefeld, and released in 1991 — is an important comic to Deadpool fans, as it was the issue to include everyone's favorite Merc With The Mouth (featured as an assassin hired to kill Cable).

Killers (PG - 13 for sexuality, profanity and violence) Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl co-star in this action comedy about an international spy who retires from the CIA to settle down in suburbia with the girl of his dreams only to discover they're being trailed by vicious assassins intent on killing them.

The third character is Dodge Anders, Alyss's long term love interest whose father is killed by The Cat (Redd's paid assassin, with the convenient advantage of 9 - lives); Dodge leads a band of rebels in Wonderland who await the day when their rightful queen is returned to the throne.

The assassin is killed off screen by Mother Brain, and Mother Brain is killed by a random group of space marines.

Elsewhere Assassination Contracts are now Assassination Interruptions where you have to defend a target by hunting and killing the Assassins.

Once again, Assassin's Creed: Revelations follows the exploits of Ezio Auditore, the young Italian who found himself swept up in the war with the Templars after his father was killed in a conspiracy perpetrated by Rodrigo Borgia, an eminent member of the order.

On a more disappointing note Corvo's ability to summon a pack of rats to distract enemies, kill enemies and dispose of bodies has been replaced by the considerably more boring Summon Assassin, which does exactly what the name implies by summoning up a lone Assassin who attacks either the nearest target or the target of your choosing.

And so, what Justin talks about, and I'll read a little piece of the article here about that, so «We see him, as a boy, taken from his mother, sold into slavery, escaping by brutally killing his new master, running for his life, and then flash forward to see him fully grown, destroying pirates with pistols and a machete, before pulling up his assassin's hood and walking towards the camera like it's no big deal.

At least 640 land and environmental activists have been killed since the 2009 climate negotiations in Copenhagen - some shot by police during protests, others gunned down by hired assassins.

A tough cop investigates a series of killings by a madman who converts consumer robots into ruthless assassins.

For all Bryan Smith knows, those teenagers could be assassins sent by gangs to kill him.

In 2009, he became president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon established by the United Nations to try the alleged assassins of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq al - Hariri, who was killed in 2005 in a car bomb attack in Beirut.