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Sentence Examples In 1809, he seized a whaleboat and disappeared with five hostages, eventually turning up in Guayaquil. One example was dressing hostages in orange jumpsuits to mimic U.S. treatment of detainees. The six freed hostages boarded a Libyan chartered jet in Cebu yesterday on their way to Tripoli. The gunmen then took control of the building and were last night using their hostages as human shields as protection against the police. As to who really controls these hostages, this is all now part of another very delicate situation, political and diplomatic reality. One group of hostages which had earlier attempted an escape were all killed. Demonstrations and vigils began as soon as news of the hostages reached Japan. Yes indeed, and clearly that's galling the people who are holding those three Italian hostages, originally four. The only good news emerging is the release of the three Japanese hostages who were threatened with execution for more than a week. The nationality of the hostages and the name of the firm they work for was last night unclear. There was still a small British community there and almost all our key contacts on the delicate issue of hostages were to be found there. Coalition forces continue to bring the fight to the enemy and rescue hostages. The queen of reggae takes no hostages in defining the beauty as raised to pimp men with money. Every day, the enemy takes more hostages, assassinates developing Iraqi leaders and savagely beats suspected collaborators. Well, now the kidnapping of the French hostages provides the clearest repudiation of that idiotic and ignorant opinion. The next year, they seized four American mountain climbers in Kyrgyzstan, though the hostages escaped after six days. Nobody who has been an MP for 12 years and a front-bencher for eight can be unaware of the risks involved in handing hostages to fortune. The coalition which will form the new government will almost certainly have to give a number of hostages to fortune if it is to get there. Promises made in the heat of an election campaign all too often create hostages to fortune. Seventeen hostages remain in the jungle where they have been held captive for two and a half months. Show More Sentences Scores of hostages from two dozen countries have been seized in the last four months. Japan can breathe a momentary sigh of relief after the release of three Japanese hostages. These rules made sense in an era when hijackers demanded money or held hostages for political purposes. The blasts also triggered chaos inside the building, which a number of hostages seized upon as their cue to escape. This was meant to pave the way for talks aimed at gaining the release of the hostages. You have a known murderer, out from prison on license, who is holding hostages in a house. Most of the child hostages who were seized by terrorists were reported to be alive. Many of the 349 hostages now being treated in hospital are in a serious condition and could yet die. Yes, we cannot really impose on him a condition to leave his family behind as hostages. Finally the vehicle was abandoned and the hostages were made to walk on foot. The army used microphones to urge the gunmen to release the hostages and surrender. Let me make clear that I join every other civilized person in hoping the hostages are released unharmed. The three hostages were rescued, although one is in serious condition in hospital. He said they would free all the hostages if police released the rest of the detained protesters. The grim find came just days after hopes were raised for three of the hostages as a new videotape of them was released. One of the four Italian hostages who worked for a security company was killed. That they did, but with such a heavy hand that the narcotic gas used to subdue the terrorists also accounted for over 100 hostages. They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else. The armed raider was left hanging on the telephone as his hostages left the building through the front door and bathroom window. The political calculation may be to spin things out as long as possible in order to obtain the release of hostages in batches or to negotiate. Show More Sentences However, in the hail of bullets and recoilless rifle fire, over fifty hostages had been killed. Many of the hostages, especially children, were sent to Black Sea spas and resorts with their families. The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape. Mothers cradled infants or escorted schoolchildren while their fathers remained in their offices, hostages in neckties. It was resolved when all hostages were released unharmed three weeks later. What if there was even a slim chance that unfettered coverage would have goaded the inmates into killing the hostages? News organisations do occasionally agree to news blackouts if they are advised that this will help to secure the safety of hostages. Unable to shop around, these householders may become hostages to huge price increases. Strip away the jargon, and you are talking about ambushing terrorist groups, raiding weapons shipments in transit, and rescuing hostages. It was about the same size as the ventilation shafts at the school I rescued hostages from as my first mission, except it was round, not square. He took hostages at an old people's home before police managed to move in and arrest him. On Oct.23, 2002, Chechen rebels seized a Moscow theater and held hostages for three days. The government attaches the highest priority to the release of the hostages. See how they posed and strutted among the terrified hostages, playing the part of big, scary villains. When troops stormed the building, 129 hostages and 41 guerrillas were killed. In the ensuing panic, it appears other hostages had inadvertently set off booby traps laid in the theatre by the rebels. The hostages and stolen cargo were recovered, and the surviving pirates put into custody. So some pirates now take hostages instead of ships or cargo, and ransom them for tens of thousands of dollars. The hostages were freed in batches several months later after several million dollars in ransoms were paid. The mental agony and postliminary destruction involved to the maledict hostages and their near and dear ones because of the misguided entrainement of a handful of greenhorns go waste and make kidnapping an infructuous political tool at the end. Show More Sentences Ten hostages have been released unharmed but five remain unaccounted for. The taking of American hostages was seen as an act of war by the United States. To suspicious artists like bo Diddley or Jimmy Rogers, it seemed a form of control, with the songs held as hostages. He enjoys long walks, romantic dinners, and rescuing hostages. This city's normal population is only 85,000 and last week 400,000 retreating Leftists and hostages jammed it almost beyond bearing, with food running crucially short. I tilted my head back, sighing, wondering again how I had come to be like this, one of the many young well-born and well-dowered hostages in court. But there is no comparable official to oversee efforts for freeing civilian hostages. Less than 30 minutes after the firefight started, commandos entered the compound and found the mortally wounded hostages. For example, he added, many highly valuable Western hostages are held in an ISIS prison beneath a dam near Raqqa. Davis was one of the last ones out and hurried to follow the other hostages, who were being marched down the thoroughfare. Soon, there were no civil society groups left to monitor the deteriorating situation with hostages and abductions. As Monday turned to Tuesday morning, five hostages had escaped and the Central Business District had turned into a ghost town. Yet meaningful negotiations to free the hostages have failed to get off the ground. Still, the video is a reminder of how feckless U.S. efforts to free American hostages have become. The hostages are forced to endure bombs being wired over their heads, random shootings, and rocketing temperatures in a school gymnasium without any water. It was once the most glamorous hotel in town, but in 1964, hundreds of European hostages were held captive in its rooms. President Carter in fact did order a high-risk military operation in 1979 to try to rescue the American hostages in Tehran. The movie was about what happened in the inside of the bank with sonny and the hostages. 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. It is a horrific and inconvenient truth, but paying ransoms to free hostages invariably worsens the problem in the long-term. Show More Sentences The controversy that is now starting up about the tactics the Russian authorities used in freeing the Moscow hostages is just the media barking up the wrong tree as usual. The 36-year-old father-of-two saw four jeeps full of hostages blown up by Algerian troops. Neither the U.S. nor the U.K. pay ransoms for hostages, as many European countries do. But when they got to the airport, the FBI nailed him, the hostages were freed, and the movie was over. France has five hostages held by al Qaeda in Niger and two held in Afghanistan probably by the Taliban. The provisional government boisterously protested the students' actions and fought fiercely for the unconditional and immediate release of the hostages. Gunmen reportedly asked hostages if they could recite passages from the quran and to name the prophet Mohamed's mother. Although most of the hostages were released unharmed in exchange for the rebels' safe passage to their hideouts, this act of terrorism cannot be condoned. These are just early signs and it would be giving hostages to fortune to suggest that suddenly everything is back fully on track in terms of global growth. And consistent with the policies that we have upheld in relation to hostages, we don't want to inflame the situation by needless and unnecessary comment. Three hostages were left shivering for hours in the coolroom. The summer marked the end of the campaigning season and having exacted some sort of tribute, taken hostages, and agreed some kind of alliance, Caesar returned to Gaul. He used to give lectures to students and hostages alike on the embassy grounds, explicating the writings of the leftist-revolutionary ideologue and mystic. Once the factory is set up, Cabral releases the ship hostages as a sign of trust. There were also concerns that an assault would become more dangerous if the West Side Boys moved the hostages. And last month, the militant appeared in a video with the Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto, shortly before they were killed. He may also have been the murderer of Japanese hostages Haruna Yukawa and Kenji Goto. On 26 April 1984 Leahy succeeded in securing the release of the British hostages at the UNITA base in Jamba, Cuando Cubango, Angola. The victors entered the city of York, exchanged hostages and were provisioned. While these hostages were held, John returned to France to try and raise funds to pay the ransom. Show More Sentences On Jimmy Carter's final day in office, the last hostages were finally set free as a result of the Algiers Accords. He dispatches Afonso Furtado and the four Calicut hostages taken by da Gama the previous year, to negotiate the details of the landing. Gaily decorated native boats come out to greet them, but remembering Gama's experience, Cabral refuses to go ashore until hostages are exchanged. By the agreement known as the Mise of Lewes, Edward and his cousin Henry of Almain were given up as hostages to Montfort. Four Saudi special forces and a further 10 hostages were wounded in the crossfire. When the hostages escaped back to France, John was horrified that his word had been broken and returned to England, where he eventually died. Tribute was not always money, but also valuables, effectively making the payers hostages kept unpillaged in exchange for good behaviour. Two hostages he was holding were safe, Grand Rapids police chief Kevin Belk said. After taking hostages from the leading men of the city, on 24 September the Norwegians moved east to the tiny village of Stamford Bridge. By late afternoon, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told the French television station BFMTV that no more hostages were being held. Sweyn then went west to Bath, where the western thanes submitted to him and gave hostages. The Danes broke their word and, after killing all the hostages, slipped away under cover of night to Exeter in Devon. While placatory on the hostages, Raja'i dismissed any possibility of a ceasefire in the war. Foley was held in Syria at the same location as several European hostages. At this time King Khosrov I of Armenia, also sent hostages, money and gifts. Before retreating they ransomed their hostages, taking only clothes and food. Cassivellaunus gave hostages, agreed an annual tribute, and undertook not to make war against Mandubracius or the Trinovantes. Mandubracius, who had accompanied Caesar, was restored as their king, and the Trinovantes provided grain and hostages. One admitted to kidnapping and ransoming hostages in the Ivory Coast. He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Show More Sentences Charlemagne then accepted the surrender of the Wiltzes under Dragovit and demanded many hostages. As he despised the Geats, he decided not to demand hostages from their prominent clans. The fields were burnt by the Goths to delay and harass the Romans with smoke, and negotiations began for an exchange of hostages. The Helvetii then offered their immediate surrender and agreed both to providing hostages and to giving up their weapons the next day. Caesar demanded hostages to be given to him and reparations to the Aedui and Allobroges. Once he had grasped the controls, he unleashed a demonic laugh that made his hostages shudder. It is commonly noted that Caesar never mentions penalties being dealt to hostages. Where do you think the ransom money for Western hostages is going? The terrorists demanded a plane and a pilot in exchange for the hostages. In other words, cities often moved to revolt against Rome, even though hostages were in Roman custody. The taking of hostages as collateral during political arrangements was a common practice in ancient Rome. Mr Belk said 34-year-old Rodrick Dantzler shot himself inside a Grand Rapids home where he had been holding the hostages. Where the Romans did take prisoners of war, hostages could also be given or exchanged in times of peace. On May 22, 11 Lebanese returning by land from a religious trip to Iran, were taken as hostages at gunpoint in the north of Syria. The first shot was directed at hostages as they fled the scene a few hours after the siege started, but hit only the doorjamb. While other tribes did not consume human flesh, their enslaved were still put to work, imprisoned, used as hostages, and killed mercilessly. Civilian hostages would be taken, and the death penalty immediately imposed for even the most trivial acts of resistance. They were obliged to sign treaties and yield hostages as a token of good faith. Imam Yahya agreed to release Saudi hostages and the surrender of the Idrisis to Saudi custody. According to one account, he had just commenced by hanging some of the Welsh hostages given the previous year when he received two letters. Show More Sentences The infuriated Henry mutilated a number of Welsh hostages, including two of Owain's sons. He is recorded to have paid a penny for hostages captured by Vikings, a large sum for his time. Satisfied with his victory, Agricola extracted hostages from the Caledonian tribes. In addition, they brought hostages in order to convince Hannibal of their commitment to his cause. Compounding this, far fewer Loyalists were joining up than expected because the Patriots put heavy pressure on them and their families, who would become hostages. Just as Caeser himself had been an obside in Bithynia as a youth, he also had taken thr King's sons as obsides or hostages, back to Rome, partially to be educated. The second invasion involved a substantially larger force and Caesar coerced or invited many of the native Celtic tribes to pay tribute and give hostages in return for peace. With Company forces approaching Cawnpore and some believing that they would not advance if there were no hostages to save, their murders were ordered. They also took Roman prisoners as hostages and distributed them amongst their neighbouring tribes in order to bind them together and encourage resistance. Calgacus is not mentioned during or after the battle and he is not named as one of the hostages Agricola took with him after putting the Caledonians to flight. Caesar wrote to Cicero on 26 September, confirming the result of the campaign, with hostages but no booty taken, and that his army was about to return to Gaul. This week, the Nigerian military rescued 338 Boko Haram hostages, mostly women and children, in the group's northeastern stronghold in the Sambisa forest. Belgian paratroopers were again deployed to the country, this time to rescue civilian hostages captured in Stanleyville during an operation known as Dragon Rouge. Opposition of rural Russians to Red Army conscription units was overcome by taking hostages and shooting them when necessary in order to force compliance. After having obtained 30,000 marks as a ransom for the hostages he had taken from the Flemish cities he had captured, Philip quickly retraced his steps to reach Dam. Eventually the captors, still holding their hostages, were offered safe passage and taken to an airport, where they were ambushed by German security forces. The imperial army was able to block him at Huai'an and, given that three of his sons were serving as hostages in the capital, the prince withdrew in disgrace. It shouldn't be exclude that irreflective agreement can make harm for people of these countries as well as to make Georgian people the hostages of the foreign policy. He then continued westwards to threaten Haverfordwest where the burgesses offered hostages for their submission to his rule or the payment of a fine of 1,000 marks. The hostages included two of his sons, several princes and nobles, four inhabitants of Paris, and two citizens from each of the nineteen principal towns of France. Show More Sentences As part of a peace agreement, the two sides exchanged hostages. Hostages who were still conscious were led to safety, while others had to be carried on stretchers into waiting ambulances. Hostages from the Valois family were held in London while John returned to France to raise his ransom. Hostages were exchanged in a bid to avoid conflict, but relations broke down and both sides mutilated their captives. In 405, for example, Niall of the Nine Hostages is described as having raided along the southern coast of Britain. Hostages were taken, but historians disagree over whether any tribute was paid after Caesar returned to Gaul. Examples from Classical Literature Cle'lia or cloe'lia, a Roman maiden, one of the hostages given to Por'sena. For every captured Communard or sympathizer with the Commune shot by the Versaillese, three hostages were to be shot. The Directory had tyrannically seized, as hostages, any relatives of the emigrants upon whom they could lay their hands. It began by the taking of hostages at the very outset of their possession of Roubaix. The Prime Minister sombrely paid tribute to Lebanon's army and military martyrs and hostages. Whoever has a wife and children has given hostages to Mrs. Grundy. They will be the hostages which we will hold against your own good faith. Both sides are also expected to exchange lists of non-combatant prisoners and hostages kept for ransom. Damietta was soon after yielded, and the hostages exchanged. Lower courts have ruled that the Algiers Accords between Iran and the United States, which accords freed the hostages, precluded any lawsuits by them against Iran. Only a few days ago an 11-hour gun battle took place to free hostages in a hotel and restaurant at Qargha Lake, north of Kabul, targetted for serving alcohol to foreigners. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of hostages? Words that rhyme with hostages What is the adjective for hostages? What is the noun for hostages? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words hostage hosta host hosses hoss hospodar hostage-taker hostage to fortune hostas host cell hoste hosted 8-letter Words Starting With h ho hos host hosta hostag hostage