• The man was 25, the description said, and was martyred because of his belief in freedom.

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  • "We will be martyred, but we will not surrender, " Ghazi told GEO television, a private channel.

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  • Wefaq said in a statement that Hussam al-Haddad had been "martyred after being brutally attacked".

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  • But his assassination sealed the deal, for what politician would dare to abandon the martyred president's goal?

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  • Meanwhile, Hamas seems likely to grow stronger, not weaker, on the wings of its newly martyred leader.

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  • It was the perfect story - to be martyred and paid for it.

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  • Smith was eventually martyred by a mob in Carthage, Illinois, while in the local jail awaiting trial for treason.

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  • Monuments to martyred Tigers overshadow temples and churches, seemingly supplanting the local religions.

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  • "Five brave soldiers have been martyred today, " Mr. Abdullah said, adding that he was awaiting further information on the attack.

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  • Christians were thought to be martyred in the amphitheatre during Roman times.

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  • This may be too constraining for Poland, which sees its first-ever presidency as a step in the renaissance of a martyred nation.

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  • Ms Kaplan concludes, nevertheless, that Brasillach's execution was wrong, not least because it enabled his supporters to keep alive the myth of martyred brilliance.

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  • Supporters of Swartz have painted him a zealous advocate of public online access, a martyred hero hounded to his death by the government he antagonized.

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  • Mr Vajpayee has acquired the charisma that once belonged to members of Mrs Gandhi's dynasty: her martyred husband, Rajiv, his martyred mother, Indira, and Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru.

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  • Syria's official SANA news agency reported that the president and his wife Asma later met the families of teachers and students "martyred due to terrorist attacks" to offer them support.

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  • It is the last resting-place of two close relations of the British Royal family a martyred grand duchess and a Greek nun and Buckingham Palace would not want anything unpleasant to happen there.

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  • Women stand out in South Asian politics, he explains, because they are assumed to lack characters of their own and can take on the charisma of their (often martyred) husbands or fathers.

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  • Barack Obama has made a concerted attempt to present himself as a latter-day Lincoln, keeping a portrait of the martyred president on his desk and taking his oath of office on Lincoln's Bible.

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  • But we also feel pride for the courage and humanity with which our troops ... have worked and still work to make the situation tolerable for children, women, the elderly and the weak who live in that martyred region.

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  • "Fearful of the outcome, King Angus led prayers for deliverance and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of a white Saltire - the diagonal cross against which Saint Andrew had been martyred - against a clear blue sky, " writes Mr Reid.

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  • Similarly, when the Sunni Muslim Mr Hussein inaugurated his triumphal arches, he rode through them on a white horse in self-conscious reference to the steed of Hussein, the Shia Muslim hero martyred at nearby Kerbala, without any apparent embarrassment at Mr Hussein's ongoing repression of his own Shia citizens.

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  • By the time the kidnapping and murder trial in Flemington, New Jersey, concluded in February 1935 with the conviction of Bruno Hauptmann a German ex-con of thirty-five living in the Bronx with his German wife the boldness of the world's first transatlantic solo pilot had been permeated with a pathos that transformed him into a martyred titan comparable to Lincoln.

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