The guards however left the empresses ' room unsearched, and the assassins avoided capture.

On October 5, 1607 Sarpi was attacked by assassins and left for dead with fifteen stiletto thrusts, but he recovered.

Lü Bu was aware of that himself so he left Yuan Shao swiftly and avoided the assassins Yuan sent after him.

In 42 BC, Antony and Octavian left Rome to pursue Julius Caesar's assassins, Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus.

The assassins left them for dead.

The group of assassins left the vicinity before the arrival of police forces, and stormed into the Radio Broadcasting Society ; holding the employees at gunpoint and cutting short the live airing of a waltz, it announced, through the voice of Traian Popescu, that it had killed the Premier.

She did the latter, and then the two married in October ; however, as Stradella left the convent after signing the contract, he was attacked from behind on 10 October by two would-be hired assassins, who believed him dead when they left him in the street.

* Scarab / Keiko-Considered the secondary character of the series, the codename " Scarab " was given to her because it is her duty to clean up the scenes left by the other Noh assassins, very much like the scarab beetle.

Evidence from the conspirators ' confessions indicated that the assassins had been encouraged by the humanist Cola Montano, who had left Milan some months before, and who bore malice against the duke for a public whipping some years before.

He was murdered by his nobles, but left a very devoted wife Eleanor of Aragon ( supposedly he took her nightgown with him on his campaigns ), who with the help of the Italians pursued the assassins.

By the time Robin returns to where he had left Cain's body, it is gone and the assassins ' necks are broken.

After eliminating most of the assassins, only the air cover flown by the mystery man is left.

In the Roman civil war between the Caesarian faction, led by Mark Antony and Octavian, and the faction including the assassins of Caesar, led by Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, Cleopatra sided with the Caesarian party because of her past.

Tradition relates that the cabaret received this name because a band of assassins broke in and killed the owner's son.

The conspirators considered the restaurant a prime location for the hit because the area would be packed with bustling crowds of holiday shoppers, making it easier for the assassins to blend in and escape.

The trial of the murderers in 1883 ( see James Carey ) made it evident that the death of Cavendish was not premeditated, and that he was not recognised by the assassins ; the plot was against Mr. Burke, and Cavendish was murdered because he happened to be in the company of Burke.

McCullough originally decided to end the series with The October Horse because in her opinion the ultimate fall of the Roman Republic took place after the Battle of Philippi, with the death of Caesar's assassins.

However, because Sima Dewen continuously attended to his brother, assassins that Liu Yu sent to poison Emperor An did not have the opportunity to do so.

Just as life seems to go back to normal for Hare ( well, normal for having Guu around ), assassins that were hired by Weda's siblings show up to kill her because of a new discovery that Weda was included a later version of her father's will, entitling her to a part of the family fortune.

Its Governor-General was installed in the former Viceregal Lodge, residence of the British Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, because it was thought to be one of the few places where he was not in danger from republican assassins.

Immediately after Caesar was killed, the leaders of the assassination plot, went to meet a crowd of Romans at the Roman Forum ; a Phrygian cap from a freed slave was placed atop a pole to show the Romans, that symbolized that the Roman people had been freed from the rule of Caesar, that the assassins claimed had become a tyranny because it overstepped the authority of the Senate.

Jaqen H ' ghar is a name used by a member of the Faceless Men, assassins who follow a personification of death known as the Many-Faced god, so named because they can change appearances at will.

One day two SHIELD employees sent to rescue Steve are captured and later executed because they are mistaken for assassins.

Leo was attending the matins service when a group of assassins disguised as monks suddenly threw off their robes and drew their weapons.

In the aftermath of Ii Naosuke's assassination, when a group of the escaping assassins suddenly entered the residence, it was Gensai who calmed down the subsequent uproar, calling for a doctor and having a private tea ceremony for the men.

In Wrestling to Rasslin, Gerald W. Morton and George M. O ' Brien described the transformation: " the drama finally played itself out on television when one of his hired assassins, Don Muraco, suddenly attacked the commentator Gordon Solie.

Unknown to any of those gathered, Dread and a team of expert assassins have attacked the Atascos ' island home in Colombia, and Bolivar and his wife are suddenly murdered.

An NSA agent, she is suddenly targeted by a group of moreau ( animal-human hybrids ) assassins, and tries to make contact with their Agency, only to find out she is thought dead and a traitor.

The Austro-Hungarian investigation of the assassination rounded up all but one of the assassins and also much of the underground railroad that had been used to transport the assassins and their weapons from Serbia to Sarajevo.

* Henrietta, Triela, Rico, Claes, Angelica, Elsa de Sica, and Elizaveta from Gunslinger Girl are adolescent girls who are made into cyborg assassins to fight for the government.

In this story there appear to be two Davroses: one is a head in a tank and apparently a decoy for assassins ; the other is in his usual chair ( which can now hover ), emerging from hiding when the decoy is assassinated.

The Nazi assassins in Vienna, after declaring the formation of a new government under Austrian Nazi Anton Rintelen, previously exiled by Dollfuss as Austrian Ambassador to Rome, surrendered after threats from Austrian military of blowing up the Chancellery using dynamite, and were subsequently tried and executed through hanging.

The action is condemned by the Yishuv at the time, but the bodies of the assassins are brought home from Egypt in 1975 to a state funeral and burial on Mount Herzl.

The assassins were subsequently reported to be part of the Palestinian fedayeen from refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.

* MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base Nine legal documents from the trials of Letelier's assassins.

After his victory in the Battle of Philippi in 42 BC, fought against the army led by the assassins of Julius Caesar, Octavian tried to pay off his veterans with land expropriated from towns in northern Italy, supposedly including, according to the tradition, an estate near Mantua belonging to Virgil.

In the Assassins volume ( 刺客列傳 ) of Records of the Grand Historian, Sima Qian outlined a number of notable assassins from the Warring States Period, who undertook tasks of conducting political assassinations of aristocrats and nobles.

George Dorn wonders early on if he " was in some crazy surrealist movie, wandering from telepathic sheriffs to homosexual assassins, to nympho lady Masons, to psychotic pirates, according to a script written in advance by two acid-heads and a Martian humorist ".

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) Alfred Hitchcock film about a family trying to save their child and a politician from an organization of assassins being hunted by MI6.

In 2009, a genetically enhanced, 9-year-old female super-soldier who calls herself Max Guevara ( Jessica Alba ), escapes along with eleven others like herself from a secret government institution, codenamed Manticore, where they were born, raised and trained to be soldiers and assassins.

The series follows the story of two young female assassins who embark together on a personal journey to seek answers about mysteries from their past.

The other player controlled assassins from the local thieves ' guild, who were trying to kill the famous rogues for operating in the city without permission from the guild.

The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.

Instead of the expected positive outcome, the prosecutor is mysteriously removed from the case, key witnesses die under suspicious circumstances, the assassins receive ( relatively ) short sentences, the officers receive only administrative reprimands, the Deputy's close associates die or are deported, and the photojournalist is sent to prison for disclosing official documents.

Four of his principal supporters ( two of whom had been among the assassins of Charles de la Cerda ) were beheaded and their bodies suspended from chains.

In the 1990s psychologist D. Corydon Hammond publicized a detailed theory of ritual abuse drawn from hypnotherapy sessions with his patients, alleging they were victims of a worldwide conspiracy of organized, secretive clandestine cells who used torture, mind control and ritual abuse to create alternate personalities that could be " activated " with codewords and were trained as assassins, prostitutes, drug traffickers, and child sex workers ( used to create child pornography ).

He leaves Luke to sober up and seeks his stepbrother Mandor, who thinks that their half-brother Jurt may be at least one of the assassins trying to kill Merlin-right now, most likely, for headship of the House of Sawall once its current lord dies, since Mandor ( the eldest son ) has stepped aside, leaving that office to be disputed between Merlin and Jurt ( who was indeed the werewolf from earlier.

On 14 November Dorothy Thompson, who in 1934 had become the first American journalist to be expelled from Nazi Germany, made an impassioned broadcast to an estimated 5 million listeners in defence of Grynszpan, pointing out that the Nazis themselves had made heroes of the assassins of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss and German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau.

Author David Morrell had his fictional character " Eliot " recruit two brothers from an orphanage in Johnstown to train as assassins in Brotherhood of the Rose.

It was the original intention that an officer would go to the centre of the field and speaking from a megaphone, invite the assassins to come forward.