Example sentences of "in [noun sg] for the killing " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , on 13 July , Calvo Sotelo was assassinated by Republican police in retaliation for the killing of one of their number by a Falangist , the rebels had the perfect pretext for making their move . |
| 2 | Blame for the attack was put on pro-government " death squads " operating in retaliation for the killing of government supporters by the JVP . |
| 3 | According to a report in the Guardian of June 20 the attack was probably carried out in retaliation for the killing by security forces on June 18 of Mohammed Abdullah Bangroo , field commander of the Hizbul-Mujahidin , one of the largest guerrilla groups operating in Kashmir . |
| 4 | However , it was subsequently discovered that the real target had been the Interior Minister Moussa , the attack being carried out by the Islamic fundamentalist group Al Jihad , allegedly in retaliation for the killing of two Islamic leaders by the security forces in August and September . |
| 5 | The abduction was reportedly in retaliation for the killing of Sikh militants who , on Aug. 20 , had attacked India 's ambassador to Romania , Julius Ribeiro , in Bucharest . |
| 6 | According to most commentators the announcement of the deportations was made in retaliation for the killing by an unidentified gunman on Jan. 1 of a Jewish settler , Doron Shorshan , near the Dir Al Balah refugee camp in the Gaza strip . |
| 7 | On Dec. 16 the Israeli Cabinet approved an order to deport 415 Palestinians , all alleged Hamas supporters , to Lebanon in retaliation for the killing of Toledano and the other Israeli military personnel during December . |
| 8 | Having impetuously killed the English sheriff at Lanark — perhaps , according to a fifteenth-century minstrel , in revenge for the killing of his own wife by the English — and been proclaimed an outlaw , he fled into Ettrick forest to assemble a force of rebels against the domination of English governors and garrisons . |
| 9 | A caller from the IRO told a newspaper that the car-bomb had been in revenge for the killing by the Israeli airforce of Sheikh Abbas Musawi , of the Lebanese Hezbollah [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 10 | The attack was believed to have been in revenge for the killing by government militia of several Moslem farmers worshipping in a mosque in the neighbouring town of Pikit . |