How To Use Captive In A Sentence

This norm encourages people to add a lot of extraneous self-indulgent stuff because they see the guests as a captive audience.
Other former captives spoke of pathetically inadequate food rations.
The lead found in captive condors and released condors with low levels in their blood had isotope ratios similar to lead found in dead livestock and wildlife that had not been killed by hunters.
Of the original twenty captive-bred maracanas that had arrived in Brazil, one had died and eight had been evacuated; this left eleven. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
Save for the rifles, there appeared to be no difference between exhausted captive and wearied captor.

With the larger and more intelligent parrots in particular, one of the main issues in captive breeding is compatibility. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
The bolt enters the skull and then retreats, and doesn't stay in the animal (thus the term captive). Iowa State Daily
The number of employees working in captive or in-house IT departments of user organisations which are non-IT firms, is around 280,000.
They listened, with eager attention, to the complaints of their captive children, who had suffered the most cruel indignities from the lustful or angry passions of their masters, and the same cruelties, the same indignities, were severely retaliated on the sons and daughters of the The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
An effort is now under way to establish a methodical breeding program in the hope of creating a healthy captive population.
In another case a man from Auxerre was jailed for keeping women captive in the basement of his home.
Zion thus calls her kinsmen (Ro 11: 14) slain throughout the country or carried captives to Babylon [Grotius]. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
And captive bottlenose dolphins have shown themselves to be skilled at replicating computer-generated sounds.
The high polymorphism of MHC genes in Chinese alligator would be of great benefit to genetic conservation in the captive population of Chinese alligator.
The cannibal scouts drag the captives to their cannibal chief, who looks them over and pronounces them tasty morsels indeed - and their skins will make excellent canoes!
When it showed more prisoners, the Australian Defence Department said that its failure to pixelate the faces of captives was an infringement of the Geneva Conventions.
It is, instead, a war waged by a despotic regime and its standing army against a captive civilian population. Times, Sunday Times
Public aquariums are a good source of information regarding the status of captive breeding of invertebrates.
The up to 50 birds to be translocated will be sourced from Codfish Island and a number of captive holding sites, and will be fully health screened prior to departure.
Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
The acquired company has a steel making capacity of 1m tonne, matching mills and associated infrastructure including a captive port.
She told us once to pray for all prisoners and captives. The Railway Children
Indeed the Carthaginian captives could distinguish the velaria spread over the courtyards of their houses, beyond the gulf on the slopes of Byrsa. Salammbo
He had the captives use it to call family and friends and implore them to pay ransom, and he used it himself to call a radio station in Mindanao and proudly announce his crime. Jihadists in Paradise
His son had been taken captive during the raid.
The captive wave places so much drag on the hull that it cannot climb up the wave's back and move ahead of it; the vessel sinks into the trough between crests.
Finally, the morphology of ruminal papillae showed significant difference between captive and wild muntjac which could be related to the diets that stimulate the growth of papillae .
It's all a scheme to build a captive audience for his lectures.
He shall find nothing remaining but those sorrows which grow up after our fast-springing youth, overtake it when it is at a stand, and overtop it utterly when it begins to wither; insomuch as, looking back from the very instant time, and from our now being, the poor, diseased, and captive creature hath as little sense of all his former miseries and pains as he that is most blest, in common opinion, hath of his forepast pleasures and delights. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I
To take captive, as by force or craft; seize.
What was the typical ratio of male to female captives? Smithsonian Mag
In a recent experiment with pairs of captive capuchins, Brosnan handed a familiar token (a small rock) to one of the monkeys, then turned her own hand palm up.
Before slaving vessels ever left the barracoons of the African coast, Europeans closely inspected the bodies of captive Africans, even tasting their sweat for signs of illness.
We are heading to a hunting club, which stocks its extensive fields with captive-bred pheasants and quail. Birdology
Bank of America has firmed up plans to set up a captive BPO outfit in Hyderabad, which will begin operations next month.
Other safety features include self-locking stabilizers and captive latches on the tower support.
Alexander the Great, enamoured of his Theban captive Campaspe, gives her freedom and engages Apelles to paint her portrait.
Captive condors do breed successfully in captivity.
They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
The births have boosted China's number of captive pandas to over 180.
The Rambam (1138 – 1204), who was considered the leading decisor (the mara de-atra, or supreme halakhic authority) in Palestine and Egypt, explicitly ruled: “If [the woman] said: ‘I cannot abide him or be intimate with him willingly,’ we compel him to divorce her immediately, for she is not as a captive that she must be intimate with one who is hateful to her” (Hilkhot Ishut 14: 8). Levant: Women in the Jewish Communities after the Ottoman Conquest of 1517.
The transporters take full advantage of the situation by extending sub-standard service to an almost captive clientele.
Nika stood up as her captive yanked and strained at the glittering strand that leashed her, shoulders bunching and teeth bared.
'I wouldn't have given it him, but it is _rude_ -- it is _bad manners_, not even to ask!' the supposed victress was saying to herself, with quivering lips, her eyes following not the Trinity freshman, who was their latest captive, but an older man's well-knit figure, and a head on which the fair hair was already growing scantily, receding a little from the fine intellectual brows. Robert Elsmere
The prison guards stand over their captives with electric cattle prods, stun guns, and dogs.
There takes place in the keddah, or pen of capture, a mighty struggle between the giant strength of the captive and the ingenuity of man, ably seconded by a few powerful tame elephants. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
The scheme will turn the 36-acre Regents Park site into a first-rate animal conservation and captive breeding centre.
Or how about a captive breeding programme? Times, Sunday Times
Indeed, outside the starboard porthole I saw a large fish, apparently captive, violently trying to disengage itself and in the process tearing some of the skin and flesh of its back.
To meet the power requirement of the plant Vedanta will construct a captive power plant with a capacity of 90 mega watt.
The actual mortality rate is probably intermediate between these values, because captive birds may be exposed to the added stress of unfamiliar conditions.
Jarauta was taken prisoner, and his identity became known when he was addressed by one of the other captives.
Two short years later the microsomes, basophilic components of the cell ground substance, had settled in one of my test tubes, still a structureless jelly, but now captive in our hands. Albert Claude - Nobel Lecture
When we facilitate groups, we use a captive eye biner attached to the rope with a regular figure eight on a bight. Undefined
The backdrop of bright, white crisp snow could not have been more of a contrast to the jungle setting in which Ally Taylor was kept captive by Colombian guerillas.
There was speculation that the captives would be picked up by helicopter from a prearranged spot in the jungle.
It is a cryptic message, and he leaves out the part about the captives being set free. Christianity Today
An interactive exhibition which will captive inquiring minds with hands of fun and equipment to test and explore the wonders of science.
The objectification of women is further underscored by Bacon's seizing them as captives for ransom.
But they couldn't move, literally, held captive by a security lockdown after a U.S. airliner smashed into a residential area in Queens nearby.
Two individuals were included from broiler sire line B, brown-egg-layer line D, broiler dam line D, Icelandic landrace, and captive red jungle fowl G. g. gallus.
He knew that he had to die to free the captives from the corruption within and the Captor without.
Using an isolated horse barn, he sells his captives to the highest bidder.
Yet, when I had bidden the guards unhasp the collar which held the prisoner's neck, and clapped my arms around her, showing all the roughness of one who has no mind that his captive shall escape or even unduly struggle, a thrill gushed through me so potent that I was like to have fainted, and it was only by supreme strain of will that I held unbrokenly on with the ceremonial. The Lost Continent
These Navy awards were a result of an assault behind enemy lines in which the SEAL unit was sent in to free friendly Vietnamese who were held captive an {one word illegible} in which half of the Americans were lost in combat. Heroes or Villains?
The trend seems to be that captive leasers stick with shorter terms.
The terrified lovers try to leave, but he holds them captive. The Sun
In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to "brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results. Trauma and Recovery
465 Her impudence is intended to be that of a captive Princess. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
By night he is a prisoner, the last captive of Tangentopoli.
Marry, thou hop-o'-my-thumb, happy wouldst thou be could thy head reach the captive Baron's girdle. '' The Waverley
Why do men steal? why break burglariously into houses? why hale men and women captive and make slaves of them? Symposium
At its core, The Agenda is another book about how the days of selling to eager, captive customers are over.
So he's got a captive audience out there, and he's appealing to them.
Crowds jostle and a six-piece jazz band begins to entertain the captive audience as the rain sheets down outside.
We all performed action songs, sketches and dances before a captive audience of parents and patrons.
The stronghold of the bailiff was carried by storm, the scholar set at liberty, and the delinquent catchpole borne off captive to the college, where, having no pump to put him under, they satisfied the demands of collegiate law by ducking him in an old cistern. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith
Why are grebes, among all the waterbirds, so difficult to maintain in captive environments?
He held his vast audience captive by his thought-provoking exposition of the holy text.
He always held the audience captive, as much by his hilarious anecdotes as by his virtuoso musical powers. Times, Sunday Times
He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
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Andrians and Corinthians, and the decree for the mutilation of the captives, of which Philokles was the author.] [Footnote 149: Golden crowns, at this period of Greek history, was the name applied to large sums of money voted by cities to men whose favour they hoped to gain.] [Footnote 150: A spit is called obelus in Greek.] [Footnote 151: Probably of each of the Spartan admirals who had commanded during the war. Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
He said PAWS objects to circuses keeping wild and exotic animals captive for entertainment.
She told him the tale of a wealthy merchant who was taken captive by a vengeful jinni and condemned to die. Old Tales That Still Seduce
The human rearing of captive animals is frowned upon because it can cause behavioural and breeding problems. Times, Sunday Times
91 The light brigantines of the Greeks were scattered in ignominious flight: the nine castles of the Venetians maintained a more obstinate conflict; seven were sunk, two were taken; two thousand five hundred captives implored in vain the mercy of the victor; and the daughter of Alexius deplores the loss of thirteen thousand of his subjects or allies. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Studies of captive lorises have shown that after a female has given birth, the demands of lactation and raising an infant may keep her from mating again for ten to fourteen months.
The captive had broken off the stalagmite, and upon the stump had placed a stone, wherein he had scooped a shallow hollow to catch the precious drop that fell once in every three minutes with the dreary regularity of a clock-tick — a dessertspoonful once in four and twenty hours. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
At the end of the day, look on the bright side: since you're captive, you may as well take the opportunity to play a game of Ludo, right to the bitter end.
Non-stop advertising to a captive audience is a marketing heaven and is exactly what our private rail networks plan to introduce very soon.
What made the difference for Ms. Parnpichate was the growing popularity of captive-bred seahorses. A Pet Hard to Cuddle Up To
According to necropsy results, one of the two died of peracute mortality syndrome, which has been associated with captive giraffes being kept in cooler climates instead of their natural tropical climate. The Georgia Straight - News And Views
And shall I always be immured, like a captived thrush?" asked Edwin, indignantly. The Children's Portion
Very Italian, too, is the "Serenade" with accompaniment à la mandolin, which is the most fetching number in the suite "Captive Memories," published in 1899. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and
Today it has the largest herd of captive elephants in the world, who live in semiwild conditions. The Sun
They seem to like having a captive ear, someone who's listening in a non-judgmental and receptive way.
Now she's an object of pity and scandal in Sydney society, and she spills her feelings and facts to another cabined, cribbed and confined captive, her ex-teacher Miss Adie.
Or their treasures were used in redeeming the captives in the pirate cities. A Book of Golden Deeds
There were tales of how some of the men were held captive, stuck in boxes with holes in their sides, Fralgon offspring teasing with their clumsy pincers. FOOD ON THE TABLE • by Anitha Murthy
He spared one captive solely so he could go back and tell his friends. Times, Sunday Times
If it targets only a captive audience, the intelligentsia, it is an exercise in futility, he argues.
But they were captives of the extreme radical elements in their party, for whom the Green movement was not essentially a political cause but a spiritual one.
He said there were not many captive elephants in Thailand with decent sized tusks to provide legal ivory to the market.
It's an opportunity for box holders to thank a captive audience for their loyalty, as well as fostering goodwill, generating new business and cementing working relationships.
I awoke to the fact that I was still nothing more nor less than a common adventurer, held captive on an isolated projecture in the middle of the sea. Born Again
If the board had been laid flat on the ground, the captive then on her back, the position, immediately, would have been recognized as a common binding position, one which girls are not unoften put for slave use. Cinnamon Roll
After 1815 British warships who captured slave ships brought freed captives there.
Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants 'lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of four competing voices-from the troubled and mercurial figure of Meriwether Lewis, the expedition leader who found that it was impossible to enter paradise without having it crumble around him, to Sacagawea, the Shoshone girl - captive and interpreter for the expedition, whose short life mirrored the disruptive times in which she lived. I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company by Brian Hall: Book summary
I did but refresh myself after the fatigue of the action, with the unbeliever, with one humming cup of sack, and was proceeding to lead forth my captive, when, crash after crash, as with wild thunder-dint and levin-fire, down toppled the masonry of an outer tower, (marry beshrew their hands that built it not the firmer!) and blocked up the passage. Ivanhoe
But among the uncertainties, the location of a few captive birds was known for sure. SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
We examined a captive animal in a terrarium, where I fed it samples of the plants that grow on the mounds.
Three of the captives tried to escape.
Nika stood up as her captive yanked and strained at the glittering strand that leashed her, shoulders bunching and teeth bared.
The absence of the two captive witnesses has probably scuppered the entire case.
captive audiences for TV commercials can become brainwashed consumers
Jesus said, "I have come to bring good news," Luke 4 which he described as rescue of the poor and freedom for those held captive by destructive and discriminating religious and social systems gone mad. Steve McSwain: New Rules For The Global Neighborhood
As a captive of Western analytical thought, what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari call tree thinking or "arborescence" "reality" must be rooted or grounded, with its parts connected in fairly linear fashion, while object and subject remain separate, I came upon Rorty's work quite by accident, when a classmate handed me his "Contingency, Irony and Solidarity. Richard Rorty, October 4, 1931 – June 8, 2007
Settlers brought with them both chattel slaves and the habit of indenturing captive Khoisan. Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
Legionaries hurried to see the barbarian captive. The Times Literary Supplement
Meanwhile captive Fon dignitaries, hoping to secure a French withdrawal, suggested Behanzin's brother Goutchile (later renamed Agoli-Agbo) as a puppet king.
The final two books should find a captive audience in anyone whose idea of design hell involves magnolia walls and clutter-free surfaces, and in those who crave a return to decorative decadence.
It is a cryptic message, and he leaves out the part about the captives being set free. Christianity Today
Recovery work over the past three decades has included captive propagation from these relict populations and reintroduction of fish into historic stream habitat in New Mexico and Arizona.
New regulations in this country in 1990 made it almost impossible to keep captive dolphins and whales. Times, Sunday Times
The hearts of war captives were the most esteemed gifts since they were won only at great expense and risk. Cultural Anthropology
En route, approximately half of the captives suffocated or were killed by shots fired by soldiers into the airtight containers.
The supermarkets are being canvassed for their views and I'm sure are heartily in favour of pocketing the change, but will still be glad of the captive market the vouchers assure them.
He really loved the hairdressing profession as it gave him a captive audience to bounce his latest jokes off.
A third factor is that subtle effects of preen oil may not be detectable in captive birds.
The researchers took eastern box turtles captive for a day and identified seeds in their excrement.
Wells, a white captive raised by the Miami, was a turncoat who deserted his adopted family to join General Wayne.
A kin slayer and fugitive, Tyrion assumes manifold roles in "Dragons": mummer, soldier, paymaster, slave, river rat and captive.
Verbal, as opposed to written, reports give you more freedom to exploit your captive audience.
Sometimes the euphoria can last up to two months or so, then those who have been held captive become more irritable and 'nippy'. Paul and Rachel Chandler: a period of decompression is needed
If they thought that having a captive succubus meant an angelic gangbang, they were in for a rude awakening. My Fair Succubi
Please name the name of the "high official" who was rescued from a captive situation. BERNARD RAMSEY
Airlines consider business travellers a captive market.
In the case of hostages and prisoners of war, numerous attempts to find supposed personality defects that predisposed captives to "brainwashing' have yielded few consistent results. Trauma and Recovery
Researchers would then calculate the optimum panda population for the region, using captive-bred pandas to increase numbers where needed.
Note that for some reason, despite having British forces accused of beating to death a captive foreign civilian — a war crime by any definition — the British, and world opinion, are quite content to let Britain investigate this on its own — no calls for a UN, NATO or ICC investigation. The Volokh Conspiracy » What’s Going on With Turkey
The American "captive" is beset in his struggle by "interpretations, admonitions, forewarnings and descriptions of himself by the self-appointed prophets, priests, judges and prefabricators of his travail," says Martin. Saul Bellow - Nobel Lecture
I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.
The climactic event, however, consists of tying the captive condor by its feet onto the back of a bull.
That suggests that our captive SY birds molted their juvenal flight feathers on a schedule similar to that of Tufted Puffins in the wild.
I am being held captive by Simon Butcher, the society photographer.
When the town was recaptured, we found soldiers who had been captives for several years.
Perhaps they would have developed a captive equipment supplier base and tried to reap all the benefits exclusively.
I fear I'm going to desert you, my dear, and leave you captive to this bevy of Cynsters. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
The human rearing of captive animals is frowned upon because it can cause behavioural and breeding problems. Times, Sunday Times
The human captives in the encampment just outside of the city were becoming more discontent by the day.
They are attacking a people, a captive nation, and an historic civilisation. Times, Sunday Times
The newspaper quoted unidentified soldiers as saying the captive had been threatened with execution and was later dumped from the back of a moving vehicle.
While most of the captives were eventually ransomed, the raid stood as a clear reminder to all the colonies and to Britain as well of how dangerous was frontier life.
It makes little difference to the serf whether he's captive of a domestic tyrant or a foreign one, his enslavement is the same. Bush: I'm Commander In Chief, Screw Your Rights
But the historian, being captived to the truth of a foolish world, is many times a terror from well-doing, and an encouragement to unbridled wickedness. English literary criticism
Her heart had begun to pound inside her chest like a captive animal.
Hegio then began to buy up Elean captives, hoping to get hold of one that he could exchange for his son -- the captive son, that is: for he has no idea that this man at his home is his own child. et quoniam heri indaudivit, de summo loco 30 summoque genere captum esse equitem Aleum, nil pretio parsit, filio dum parceret: reconciliare ut facilius posset domum, emit hosce e praeda ambos de quaestoribus. Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives
An effort is now under way to establish a methodical breeding program in the hope of creating a healthy captive population.
An entire family works to care for new tamarins; in wild and captive monkeys, a group of five appears to be the ideal number of caretakers needed for healthy young.
Now she's an object of pity and scandal in Sydney society, and she spills her feelings and facts to another cabined, cribbed and confined captive, her ex-teacher Miss Adie.
The government has so far refused to consider the exchange and the captives are condemned to many more years in their jungle prisons.
Captive-bred birds are easy to come by now, but the time needed to look after and fly a bird is still a rare commodity.
De Soto, following his guides—most of whom were captives, prodded on at the point of a sword—headed straight into the swamps. Fire The Sky
Meanwhile, prairie dog colonies are destroyed, and prairie dogs are trapped or frozen to feed captive ferrets in an endless cycle of failure.
But appealing over the heads of oppressive regimes in support of their captive populations can have a powerful catalytic effect. Times, Sunday Times
The hot water of summer increases the stress factor for captive shrimp, and the race to the tideline can be tense.
Later on, after the invading French army has been repelled, Lear and Cordelia have been taken captive and Edmund gives these chilling words to his captain.
There was far greater respect for the "inwardness" of, say, Greek captives,I don't believe conservatives really think Iraq is in the best interests of the United States. What Would YOU Think?
Millions of dollars have been spent on condors, and a variety of groups have worked hard to get the birds to breed in captivity and to develop techniques for introducing captive-raised birds to the wild.
The Insect House - at work, amidst the dictyopteran vistas and rows of captive orthoptera, where I sweep the floors, change the light bulbs, hold open the refuse sacks that the two curators fill with the detritus of insect life - this was where it all started.
It will help to mesh awarenesses with a human, Djana ¦ no terrified captive, no lickspittle turncoat, no sniveler about peace and brotherhood, no pseudomorph grown up among us apart from his own breed ¦ but one who has come to me freely, out of the depths of the commonalty that bred her, one who has known alike the glory and the tragedy of being human. A Circus of Hells
Psittacine beak and feather disease is a highly contagious and debilitating viral disease that affects wild and captive populations of psittacine birds.
Not that socially imposed monogamy need extend to captive slaves.
The company has made no secret of its intention to work with broadcasters and advertisers, and to market products directly to its 400,000-strong captive audience.
If his captives were using torture to keep him subdued, he would be too proud to let her know.
Fed up with expensive state assigned-risk pools, DDA rented a captive facility instead - and slashed its expenses by half.
A population of captive-bred dibblers, an endangered marsupial from Western Australia, was successfully moved to a predator-free island two decades ago, and the movement to another island of Gilbert's potoroo, an endangered Australian mammal, has also worked. The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
I am not a slave, I am not a captive, and by energy I can overcome the greater obstacles.
In 2001 Abu Sayyaf kidnapped twenty people and beheaded one of the American captives
An organization with a captive market could "allocate" its cost to another in the form of a "price" that the agency charged cannot control. Npr Monograph On Financial Management Part B
Bodyboarders are a captive audience for trunks and wetsuits, so there is no need to market to them.
Some observers believe Kim Jong Il is now a captive of his military hardliners.
The Church was on the point of giving reconciliation to repentant sinners, who had broken the chains of sin whereby they were held captives; Christian princes were ambitious to imitate this their mother ... Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
For several years, the Captive Motion Picture Audience of America CMPAA has devoted itself to eliminating what it calls the "invasive" advertising techniques used by movie theaters, which it claims takes away from what going to the movies should be all about. FOXNews.com
I saw your earlier post regarding whether waterboarding or punching a captive is or isn't torture. Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
The captive badger is taken to the ‘sporting’ venue - a trench covered by Perspex - and pitted against terriers.
The most sensible carriage-horse is liable to step on his master's foot or crowd him against a wall in a moment of excitement; but even inside the keddah, with wild elephants all about, and a captive elephant hemmed in by three or four tame animals, the noosers safely work under the bodies and between the feet of the tame elephant until the feet of the captive are tied. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations
In such surprisals of sin, although the affections may be ensnared, and the judgment and conscience by their tumultuating dethroned for a season, yet the will still maketh head against sin in believers, and crieth out that, whether it will or no, it is captived and violently overborne, calling for relief like a man surprised by an enemy. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Improved management of the genetics of small captive populations is beginning to make propagation more successful.
Press Gang : Convert an unskilled captive to a pirate of rather inferior quality.
It seems that James Carville for reasons his fellow mental captives will call forgivable, seems to have repeatedly hoped President Bush would fail. ¡No Pasarán!
Most of these captive elephants live in dirty conditions and suffer from poor treatment and callous management.
The scenes in which Kelly is held captive by a shadowy assailant create a real sense of fear by virtue of the juxtaposition of Kelly's sharply-lit, terror-stricken face and Lynch's completely shadow-covered one.
Hitting on a captive audience is just creepy. Times, Sunday Times
Operating in heavy fire, the column finally extracted the pinned-down forces and their captives, but 18 Americans lost their lives in the process.
Gradually, these grounded bats formed a captive colony that occupied a room in French's house for more than eight years.
It is gravitationally captive to the giant ball of ringed gases that is Saturn.
The outcome of these behaviours in a captive colony is the formation of one-male groups similar to those found in the wild.
And it's praying for the other captives and other families who are living in fear and dread.

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