1.   A hired assassin, armed with a gun equipped with a homemade silencer, filled Gold with bullets.

2.   A vocal critic of human rights violations, Santos had been followed by hired assassins for days, according to news reports.

3.   It was the first time it occurred to me that cooking as a profession might be as cool as being a hired assassin or the new fifth Beatle.

4.   One problem with this seems at first to be that by making Brossard a contrite protagonist hunted by hired assassins, Moore has lent him a modicum of sympathy.

5.   Sounds like more of a problem for a labor union than a hired assassin.

6.   Some worked as hired assassins for drug lord Pablo Escobar, while others formed street gangs in the labyrinth of ghettos that creep up the mountainsides overlooking downtown.

7.   The bass Robert Lloyd was appropriately chilling as the hired assassin Sparafucile, and the mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves provided some glamour casting in the small role of Maddalena.

8.   With illicit profits politicians, judges, police and journalists are regularly bought or silenced by hired assassins.

9.   Police claimed that Kumar was killed by hired assassins from the gang of accused mafia boss Abu Salem who police believe is based in the United Arab Emirates.

10.   Investigators suspect a hired assassin who has since fled the country was responsible.