His was a premeditated attempt to end the bout, thus depriving paying customers from ringside to living room of a legitimate sporting event.

He said "we see how there is premeditated attempt to publicly lynch our institution and our workers for facts that have not been supported or proved".

One of China's vice premiers called it a "premeditated attempt to overthrow the government, and is supported by powerful anti-China groups."

"It is evident that the action by Messier was more of a reflex one than a premeditated attempt to injure," O'Neill said in a statement.

The coach dismissed the notion that Johnson's late action was a premeditated attempt to get Mourning suspended.

It may not really have been a premeditated attempt at murder.

He denounced the killing as a "premeditated" attempt to sabotage the peace accord for Central America and pledged an investigation.

Any premeditated attempt at suicide disqualifies one as a candidate for ordination.

Some Palestinian officials contended that the raid was a premeditated Israeli attempt to keep a truce from taking hold in order to avoid subsequent political negotiations.

He said also that the killing was a "premeditated" attempt to sabotage the Central American peace agreement, which is to take effect this week.