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Sentence Examples A serial bank robber busts out of prison with a federal cop as an accidental hostage. But the son, who was riding in a separate car, was held hostage at the embassy in Bangkok. Police said although the man was unharmed he was held hostage for between three and four hours. They must reject the abhorrent demands of hostage takers and bandits and, if necessary, commit more funds and more troops. This is all it takes for Daniel to find himself beaten and alone, a hostage in the drama of war. Stem cell research, booming in the UK, has been dealt as a hostage to the Jesus freaks on the right. His petition drive to outlaw such a job action gave voice to voters who were unhappy at having their transit system held hostage. Why were the major media so quick to disseminate pictures of an action figure as a genuine hostage photo? Users infected with a new strain of ransomware found their computers held hostage in exchange for a money transfer demanded by its creators. A police officer was given a national police bravery award for tackling a gunman who was holding his children hostage. Special Forces reconnoitered the jungle, looking for U.N. forces being held hostage as part of Cobra Gold 2002 exercises. She was apparently shot dead while trying to escape when the hostage crisis began last night. A hostage heard the gunmen shouting that they would release their captives if the security forces let them go. Police are offering rewards for any information about the vigilante, the hostage, or the robber. He has magic feet but those who lament rather than lionise him say that he is a hostage to tragic attitude. The opportunity to knock somebody out quietly or take a hostage is not often present since enemies tend to rove in groups. He is a bit of a loose cannon and in a bank robbery mission he ignores direct orders to stand down and ends up accidentally shooting a hostage. She is held hostage by a masked woman wearing long black gloves and high-heeled boots. One of those is Kenneth Bigley, a British engineer held hostage by terrorists who have already barbarically murdered his two American comrades. Earhart and her companion were picked up by a Japanese seaplane and will be held as hostage, say the Japanese. Show More Sentences After a day in seclusion, relatives of executed American hostage Paul Johnson Jr. released a statement. Looking at the current outbreak of hostage taking in Iraq, it seems as if we have entered a terrifying time warp. The troops were on their way home a little earlier than planned, and the hostage has been set free. The insurgents also use mines, booby traps, and snipers, and they conduct large-scale terrorist actions involving hostage taking. But the current government is still letting itself be held hostage by the biggies. It's something they can't do while being held hostage in their own cities, and the numbers of devout travelers have dropped to a trickle. If you think that a hostage situation like the one in Russia could not happen here, you are sadly mistaken. These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices. Two people held hostage after a 24-hour drinking session ended in a police siege have spoken of their terror. The gunmen stormed the main entrance with guns blazing, and took several hundred shocked staff, visitors and patients hostage. The Russian hostage situation has been resolved bloodily, but the number of casualties is unknown so far. They are held hostage by the US, uncharged, with full Australian government complicity. This town is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators. What needs to be understood about the situation is that both leaders are hostage to their own constituencies. I don't mean to sound harsh and unsympathetic, but I did not want to be held hostage in a room listening to other peoples' problems. Underground vaults were cleared in two-and-a-half hours, after the families of two kidnapped managers were held hostage. The downward move came as fears eased that the hostage standoff could spiral out of control. Though still cagey about the new novel's subject matter, he does say it will deal with terrorism and with a hostage crisis. The hostage said there wasn't much shooting heard toward the end of the stand-off because a deal had been reached. At one point, the hostage wife demands to take one of the other captives to the ladies' room. Show More Sentences The hostage takers have allowed their 14 captives to receive supplies for the first time ever. We were to be hostage to military kindness, stultified by Stockholm syndrome. She was held hostage by the Cayuses as an interpreter and was eventually released and reunited with her parents. Striking oil workers holding expatriate staff hostage agreed to release them on Friday. In a separate incident in the tribal areas yesterday, gunmen hijacked an official van and took hostage its two occupants. And so Max turns from hireling to hostage, and Collateral's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring. Max turns from hireling to hostage, and the movie's fine-tuned thriller motor gets purring. The support group was like a social club for her, where she had a hostage audience. The purpose of such action is to force average people to their knees and hold them hostage to the horrors of terrorism. The gang took the manager to his branch while holding the rest of his family hostage. They might pass something that proves an electoral liability or makes a minister a hostage to fortune. Armed with an assault rifle, he holds a band of hostage takers off for hours. Infliction of harm on innocent human beings to influence the conduct of others is indistinguishable from what hostage takers do. The family applied great pressure on the government to respond to the hostage takers' demands. In 1980, at a moment of near despair, our nation was being humiliated by the hostage takers. The former MP last night appeared on TV to appeal directly to the hostage takers. A security official confirms that authorities have established contact with hostage takers. He has built his entire political career on antiterrorism, on the slogan of not giving into the demands of hostage takers. That confidence has to be regained, and lengthy explanations about the how and why of Manila's response to the hostage crisis won't be enough. The advisory assumes significances amid reports that efforts are on to secure the safe passage of three Indians being held hostage there. Show More Sentences A Dorchester man and two codefendants were held on bail yesterday in an alleged armed robbery and hostage standoff Sunday on Wales Street. When prey arrives they quickly seize its extremities, pulling on legs, arms and antennae until the hostage is rendered immobile. They hold you hostage and feed you horrible fattening food you would never eat anywhere else. Greek police commanders said the men had talked regularly with hostage negotiators by mobile phone. While most of the hostage takers were from Chechnya, eight were ethnic Ingush. I sat in Mr. Minister's tanned Buick station wagon, a miserable hostage, about to come face to face with bargain bins of felt and pipe cleaner. So when Filipino civilians were taken hostage in April, the Philippines government announced that it was withdrawing its troops. What they will do is read out a death sentence, intone a chant, then set upon the hostage from all sides. The stock options haven't quite vested, there's no better place to work in Podunk, or perhaps your boss is holding someone you love hostage. The 23-year-old freelance journalist refused to go into detail about his brief but traumatic ordeal as a hostage. He coasts from near-disaster to near-failure, until finally he is taken as hostage by cyborgs. A woman prison officer at Wakefield Jail was being held hostage in a cell by a male prisoner late last night. Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent psychopath, trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed. The desperados collide with the drillers and a hostage situation takes shape but guns and threats aren't the only danger facing our heroes. Rich is notorious for trading with Iran during the hostage crisis, South Africa during apartheid, and Cuba and Libya during U.S. trade embargoes. During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry. A man held hostage in a bedsit for more than 10 days was free last night after escaping the clutches of a gunman. One hostage died en route, the Journal reported, while the other died on the operating table. Meanwhile, the remaining guards had split up and gone their separate ways, probably to search for the hostage, leaving Alexis and the only guard left. To meet that challenge, it is high time that governments around the world agreed on a unified policy towards hostage taking. Show More Sentences Police and ambulances moved in and the hostage was quickly ushered away. While holding the remaining students hostage, he shot two responding police officers, killing one and wounding the other. This brave statement may yet prove to be a hostage to fortune. It gives them an excuse to treat the hostages badly, and God knows it's bad enough just to be taken hostage and to be confined in some filthy room and maybe blindfolded. The hysteria and hostage taking of wacko Bird Inc. is not reasonably matched to the current situation. This list is made up of other designated dangerous offenders, lifers, hostage takers and others who might be likely to harm the staff or attempt escape. John Avlon talks to a former FBI hostage negotiator about how to break the deadlock. Having seized Ismael, Mohammad sent word to the shura that he would trade his hostage for maulvi Habibullah. The truth is that a hostage was not freed by the kidnappers. Flanders was overrun by the French, and Queen Philippa had been taken hostage in Ghent. He gets busted down to the ranks for accidentally winging a hostage. Such vehicles help the Coast Guard handle hostage situations at sea and take on pirates, poachers of marine wealth, smugglers and anti-national elements, an official said. The regimented days of a hostage suddenly gave way to a disorienting and floating sort of freedom. Rather than storm the hospital, Tyreese says, the group should take a couple of cops hostage then set up a trade with Dawn. An assembly line is a delicate process that can be stopped by holding one of dozens of chokepoints hostage. On Escobar's order, Popeye took Mendoza hostage in the warden's house while Escobar tried to figure his way out of the bind. I feel a degree of empathy for the man held hostage, and for his family. With the Vice Minster of Justice now a hostage, Gen. Pardo's 4th brigade had little choice but to strike. They took cover inside a print works to the north east of Paris, where they held a member of staff as a hostage. The camera passes to each hostage in turn to allow them to plead with the Lebanese government to let them live. Show More Sentences They also continue to hold two Americans and nine Filipinos hostage. He called on the government to reject any demands from the hostage takers. Patients are sometimes held hostage to health care delivery processes. France 24's coverage of two developing hostage situations in Paris on Friday. Moorhead Kennedy was taken hostage in Iran in 1979 and watched the government crumble. Militants are holding the mother teresa of Somalia hostage, and as a result, dozens of children have already died. Several are dead and Western journalists taken hostage as open warfare erupts around pro-Russian stronghold of Slovyansk. They planned to take Indian diplomats hostage and then execute them as Modi was took office. If the wars of terror against some states continue, then we will continue to be shocked by another suicide bombing, another execution of a hostage. For all his ruthlessness, Cromwell gave away a hostage to fortune by his efforts to propel Henrician religious policy in a moderately Protestant direction. Hamilton Jordan and I were the last people to leave the situation room, because we were monitoring the hostage situation. Playing hostage rescue in these circs is rarely, if ever, a good idea. They had reached a cease-fire arrangement with the hostage takers. As often happens in hostage situations, a sense of ennui enveloped the participants. While he was here, the government of Spain sought to extradite him to stand trial for conspiracy to murder, conspiracy to torture, and hostage taking. At its complex in North Carolina, it has shooting ranges for high-powered weapons, buildings for simulating hostage rescue missions and a bunkhouse for trainees. The alleged plan called for the two men to pretend that he was a hostage. Despite facing many obstacles, it was encroached only once, when militants invaded and took Dr. Abdi hostage. Strongly resist the temptation to telephone a gunman or hostage taker. Finally when I did have to release a chocolate hostage, I mounted up and went to the bathroom to meet the defecatory destiny that exists in my professional life. Show More Sentences The experience is intended to emulate being taken hostage, which feels strange in these very real ISIS horror-drenched times. In 238, the Goths invaded across the Danube into the Roman province of Moesia, pillaging and exacting payment through hostage taking. There was a man who said his boyfriend was holding him hostage with a gun. The hostage is the only American woman held by the militant group. Lebanon has been taken a hostage by these escalatory policies at the regional level. That can never happen while the marbles are being held hostage in London. Constantine recognized the implicit danger in remaining at Galerius's court, where he was held as a virtual hostage. William and Malcolm agreed to peace by signing the Treaty of Abernethy, and Malcolm probably gave up his son Duncan as a hostage for the peace. He remained hostage for a year and had to pay a large ransom for his own release. The terrorists killed two of the athletes soon after they had taken them hostage and killed the other nine during a failed liberation attempt. When they learned that Strongbow was on his way, they burnt Wexford and withdrew to a nearby island with FitzStephen as a hostage. That number does not include instances of hostage taking and kidnapping where the victims were not injured. Finally, the aitire is a surety who became a hostage in the case of a default. Once the hostage was in captivity, the debtor had ten days to pay the debt to have the hostage released. If the hostage was not released by then, expenses to the debtor could become exorbitant. Arminius then spent his youth in Rome as a hostage, where he had received a military education, and even been given the rank of Equestrian. In the first two books of de bello Gallico, there are seven examples of hostage exchanges. Today the term hostage has a different connotation than it did for the Ancient Romans, which is shown in the examples above. Not wanting to risk being taken hostage by one side or the other, Titus abandoned the journey to Rome and rejoined his father in Judaea. His childhood was spent at Constantinople as a diplomatic hostage, where he was carefully educated. Show More Sentences A British businessman who was among the passengers held hostage by a skyjacker arrived home yesterday and spoke of his ordeal. Kublai secured the northeast border in 1259 by installing the hostage prince Wonjong as the ruler of Korea, making it a Mongol tributary state. The hostage crisis resulted in more fighting between the RUF and the government as UN troops launched Operation Khukri to end the siege. Moctezuma was soon taken hostage on November 14, 1519, as a safety measure by the vastly outnumbered Spanish. Atahualpa's death meant that there was no hostage left to deter these northern armies from attacking the invaders. Recognizing the value of the Emperor as a hostage, Pizarro blocked the attack and received a sword wound to his hand in consequence. He also claimed that the agreement was void because his sons were taken hostage with the implication that his word alone could not be trusted. A notable example was the early 1692 Abenaki raid on York, where about 100 English settlers were killed and another estimated 80 taken hostage. A day later a group of emissaries led by Thomas Egerton and John Popham were sent to Devereux, and immediately taken hostage. However, the plan runs into trouble when she learns his girlfriend Audra is being held hostage by a crazed anti-abortionist. A SCOT held hostage by pirates told how he tried to fight off his captors with fire hoses. She's Barb Wire, a bounty hunter working undercover as a stripper to spring a hostage and claim the reward. Maybe just nine holes of golf after an American ISIS hostage is beheaded. Latvia's social and economic development cannot be held hostage of the simplism of the last 20 years. So we didn't bat an eyelid when formerly mild-mannered, nice guy Sam suddenly became a date rapist, escaped from prison and took his sister hostage. Chancellor drowned, but Nepeya managed to reach the coast, where he was taken hostage by the Scots for a few months before they allowed him to travel on to London. Soon thereafter, suspecting treachery on the part of their hosts, the Spaniards took Moctezuma II, the king or Hueyi Tlatoani of the Mexica, hostage. He eventually holds Diana hostage and compels her to join him on a 3000-mile road trip back to Denver, with a tenacious bail bondsman in hot pursuit. They attacked the Inca's retinue and captured Atahualpa as hostage. The City Daska police have also registered a case against 17 local lawyers for torturing and thrashing the Daska TMO after taking him hostage at his office. Show More Sentences In most episodes, the main plot centres on a particular crime or case relating to the police, such as drug trafficking, a hostage situation, murders and robberies. The first example is hostage for a mass of unproblematical cases. In 1241, he is recorded as having been handed over to Henry III of England as a hostage with his younger brother, Rhodri, as part of an agreement. The Bishop of Glasgow, James the Steward, and Sir Alexander Lindsay became sureties for Bruce until he delivered his infant daughter Marjorie as a hostage, which he never did. For example, in 2006, there were 239 attacks, 77 crew members were kidnapped and 188 taken hostage but only 15 of the pirate attacks resulted in murder. In 1461, Paolo Fregoso, archbishop of Genoa, enticed the current doge to his own palace, held him hostage and offered him the choice of retiring from the post or being hanged. Immediately before the Battle of Bosworth, being wary of Stanley, Richard took his son, Lord Strange, as hostage to discourage him from joining Henry. After the Battle of Lewes, Edward was hostage to the rebellious barons, but escaped after a few months and joined the fight against Simon de Montfort. Sweyn and Harold called up their own vassals, but neither side wanted a fight, and Godwin and Sweyn appear to have each given a son as hostage, who were sent to Normandy. But he soon learned that his men on the coast had been attacked, and decided to hostage Moctezuma in his palace, demanding a ransom as tribute to King Charles. I hope the other report will be completed at a very early date, but to put a timescale on it would be to give hostage to fortune and I am not prepared to do that. However, there are those who see such schemes as outright unsustainable, believing that expansionary monetary policies are instead holding economies hostage. Foley might have been spared his savage execution for a suitcase full of cash, but ransoming one hostage today guarantees another will be taken tomorrow. The killing of the Japanese hostage shows another example of ISIL's underestimation of human lives, UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in press remarks. These terrorist groups frequently participate in more obviously criminal activities such as extortion, theft, robbery, pipeline vandalization, as well as hostage taking. In Generation X comedy Airheads, slacker musicians Adam Sandler, Brendan Fraser and Steve Buscemi took radio-station staff hostage to get their demo played. Examples from Classical Literature We are going to hold you as a hostage until your Saxon master or your British father pay ransom for you, and inlaw us again. For even if Bishop yielded to their demand, they would retain her as a hostage. With even that hope to get even with him, I will not kill you, yet I must have that money or a hostage. His godchild was hostage to him for its father, and the father did in some trifling way offend him. He has, for this reason, resolved to detain you in it, as a hostage for them. Turkish Special Forces team reenacted a hostage rescue operation exercise, in eastern Turkish city of Erzurum on Thursday. Yet despite her status as hostage and earthwoman, she was afraid. And then he had given a hostage to fortune, or his father had for him. If the Prince is a hostage for your safety, then he must be sacrificed. French companies whose staff have been released after being taken hostage in Africa also deny unsourced accusations that they paid ransoms. Asaad was reportedly taken hostage following Daesh's takeover of Palmyra in May. As of today, we are no longer a nation held hostage, no longer in danger of becoming the world's greatest panhandler. In April, the Plymouth-based ship disrupted a gang who had hijacked an Indianflagged boat, taken the crew hostage and were using the vessel as a pirate mother ship. He flies to Florida and eventually holds Diana hostage and compels her to join him on a 3,000-mile road trip back to Denver, with a tenacious bail bondsman in hot pursuit. Holding the nation hostage in our own particular way,'' jokes Tom Hanks. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hostage? Words that rhyme with hostage What is the plural of hostage? What is the adjective for hostage? What is the noun for hostage? Translations for hostage Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words hosta host hosses hoss hospodar hospitium hostages hostage-taker hostage to fortune hostas host cell hoste 7-letter Words Starting With h ho hos host hosta hostag