How To Use Hosta In A Sentence
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Most of the child hostages who were seized by terrorists were reported to be alive.
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Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) General Joo Manuel lask week said that the 14 people on board that plane were alive and held hostage by UNITA forces.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The hostage-takers Bowden spoke with expressed little regret at their seizure of the embassy, but most, like Mirdamadi, lamented the role they played in cementing the repressive rule of the clerics.
Into the Den of Spies
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These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
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Speaking to camera, the masked man accused the hostages of being spies for the British government and claimed that they had been abandoned.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's one of the main Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.
WN.com - Articles related to EU navy arrests 13 pirates off Oman
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This was meant to pave the way for talks aimed at gaining the release of the hostages.
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Yet several works were commissioned for smart urban dance, music-theatre and performance-art events; five of the 22 tracks are clever transcriptions of Shostakovich piano pieces.
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Met Police hostage negotiators also gave support.
The Sun
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The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
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The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
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Special Forces reconnoitered the jungle, looking for U.N. forces being held hostage as part of Cobra Gold 2002 exercises.
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We understand that the Navy is not expected to intervene but will not allow that lifeboat to leave with that hostage to go back to what's called a mothership if you will.
CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2009
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At the jewish centrum Chabad Lubavitch 8 Israelian hostages were freed.
Indian Commandos Free 8 Israeli Hostages as Siege Continues
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Threats of a bomb or a threat on the life of a hostage can't be accepted, but the speed and decisiveness of the onrush might just so distract the terrorists that they are overpowered before a hostage is killed.
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The group is known to have been holding at least a dozen western hostages.
Times, Sunday Times
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He said Hezbollah started the crisis and is the nation of Lebanon hostage.
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The army used microphones to urge the gunmen to release the hostages and surrender.
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1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
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In an Oct. 13 meeting with Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Obama said: ` ` Tell Raúl police Saturday detained 28 members of a far-right party who tried to disrupt an event held by a rival far-right tanker Monday farther out at sea than any previous assault, suggesting that pirate capabilities are growing as they increase intellectual Francisco Ayala, seen in this March 9, 2006 file photo during an interview with The Associated Press, in Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom.
WN.com - Articles related to Spanish PM vows sweeping reforms to boost economy
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When they did so last May 500 soldiers were taken hostage by the rebels.
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Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
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Davis, I'd sieze every private pipeline, powerline, and power plant and hold them hostage until the energy industry pays back every dime they extorted from the state.
Boing Boing: September 22, 2002 - September 28, 2002 Archives
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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.
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The opportunity to knock somebody out quietly or take a hostage is not often present since enemies tend to rove in groups.
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Everybody who goes into this region, whoever they are, is at risk of being taken hostage.
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A drama of labor extortion with the heroines memory as hostage.
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The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
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We also were continuing to support the infiltration and exfiltration of a few intelligence officers and agents who were traveling in and out of Iran on intelligence-gathering and hostage-rescue planning operations.
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For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents.
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Scientists say the brief drop in blood pressure that causes the dizziness, or orthostatic hypotension, can damage the brain.
The Sun
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His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
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The robbers wanted safe conduct to the airport for themselves and their hostages.
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The government should continue to use its influence for the release of all hostages.
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The truth is that a hostage was not freed by the kidnappers.
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But have you seen an enormous rise in hostage taking?
'Stalling For Time' With An FBI Hostage Negotiator
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Coalition forces continue to bring the fight to the enemy and rescue hostages.
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She is held hostage by a masked woman wearing long black gloves and high-heeled boots.
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Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
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GM agrees to sell its Hughes Electronics satellite unit to EchoStar Communications, ending GM's two-decade foray into nonautomotive businesses.
Bankruptcy Leads Possible Plans for GM, Chrysler
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The hostages were used as a human shield .
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The terrorists are holding three men hostage.
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His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
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True, there are certain races where even a blue-leafed hosta plant would be able to discern the superiority of a Joe Sestak to an avaricious toad like Pat Toomey.
Jerry and Joe Long: Can Scum Save Us From Maniacs?
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Yes indeed, and clearly that's galling the people who are holding those three Italian hostages, originally four.
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And so to the evening's highlight: Shostakovich's extraordinary Trio No 2 in E minor.
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Striking oil workers holding expatriate staff hostage agreed to release them on Friday.
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Elsewhere in the world, hostage-taking still continues virtually unnoticed in the outside world.
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She was taken/held hostage by the gunmen.
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The greatest conceit - that pregnancy is not a health issue and women's lives are expendable - underlies the dual standards of Republican Party pronatalist policy demanding female submission to males who assume the right to hold women hostage to biology.
Michele Swenson: "Non-Personhood" for Women: Defining Women Down
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It comes as no surprise that he and his craven right-wing thugs would attempt to humiliate and heap further indignities upon the former hostages by mulcting them of $6000 + for Japan's ‘out of pocket expenses’.
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A dozen hostages were shot in reprisal for the killing of an army officer.
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It looked like a sop thrown to the minority, yet another hostage to fortune.
Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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Penn Townsend Esq '' from the Committee appointed to Consider, about the Indian Hostages, Gave in the following Report, Viz ', Pur - suant, to the Within Order, The Committee, therein Named mett & find itt difficult to form any projection better for Securing the Indian Hos - tages, than by Continuing them in Cambridge Goal, where they now be.
Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
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The sensation is caused by a sudden drop in blood pressure, known as orthostatic hypertension.
The Sun
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He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
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MR. KELLY: Yeah, well, I think that there's a whole kind of legalist definition of hostages.
Trina's Kitchen
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With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price.
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In partial shade, use balloon flowers as accent plants placed among foxgloves, hostas, or lamb's ears.
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The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.
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Unable to shop around, these householders may become hostages to huge price increases.
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The hostages wept for joy on their release.
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But in Deus Ex I'll spend two hours trying to make sure I incapacitate the person trying to kill me for failing to execute a hostage that's far from innocent.
The Authorship Conflict
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The hijackers kept the pilot as a hostage on board the plane.
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He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
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One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
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Columbian rebels FARC release fouth hostage, but fail to free two others, angering the government.
Colombia Suspends Hostage-Release Program
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She said that police sent her to a psychiatrist who wrongly diagnosed her as suffering from Stockholm syndrome, a condition in which hostages empathise with their captors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bombers agreed to release the hostages in exchange for safe passage.
Times, Sunday Times
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They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
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The ambassador declared that there would be grave consequences if the hostages were not released.
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The hostage crisis bore a remarkable similarity to another attack last year.
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Again, the harsh conditions under which Shostakovich was compelled to represent himself are often found transposed to the prosaic sphere of paranoid nostalgia.
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The Packers are owned by their fans, so the city can not be held hostage for a new stadium.
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Aim To investigate the cytotoxic activity of HDAC inhibitor Trichostatin A (TSA)combined with anticancer drugs targeting DNA on T24 bladder cancer cell line.
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Through their eyes, a white woman traveling in a car filled with black folks looked like a hostage.
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The hostage taker, a disgruntled former policeman armed with an assault rifle, was killed by police during a 9-hour siege shown live on TV.
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bushwhacked," one of the hostages should suffer death.
How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War,
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The victims are forced into their own car and held hostage while the gang use their cards in cash machines and shops.
The Sun
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Read in studio A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell.
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In a separate incident in the tribal areas yesterday, gunmen hijacked an official van and took hostage its two occupants.
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Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
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Their blossoming relationship may now be hostage to how bloodily China handles anti-Chinese protests by Tibetans.
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Inside the mansion, the hostages have displayed gallantry, solidarity and stoicism.
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Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of perennials, including campanulas, daylilies, hostas, peonies, sedums, and Shasta daisies.
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Perhaps a bit like Stockholm syndrome, where hostages feel empathy and love towards their captors.
The Sun
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Broad-leaved cannas, hostas, deep orange dahlias, fiery crocosmias and tender bulbs such as gloriosa will all add heat to the scene, while plants of architectural interest such as Fatsia japonica, palms, cordyline and phormium can all add to that tropical feel.
IcNewcastle
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Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
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Vanessa's character will reportedly be working as a "deckhand" on a cruise ship that's taken hostage by pirates, according to the mag.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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One of the psychics claimed that the general was held in a brick building with a red roof, and another guessed that the hostage was being held in Padua, a small city in the north.
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Now they are all hostage to negotiations between the regime and rebels on lifting the blockade.
Times, Sunday Times
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Taliban captors held him hostage for seven months, until June of last year, when he and his Afghan colleague managed to flee from a compound in Pakistan's North Waziristan region.
Former Hostage: Afghan Taliban and Pakistani Taliban Work 'Seamlessly Together'
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Times requests over a three days this week to explain how such a well-known hostage taker with family connections to extremists could have passed US vetting procedures.
Times, Sunday Times
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They are calling for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds.
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The exact location of the hostages is unknown.
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You have a known murderer, out from prison on license, who is holding hostages in a house.
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Like his film scores, this is Shostakovich in a populist vein.
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None of this is reassuring for British or American hostages.
Times, Sunday Times
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When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
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He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
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Every day, the enemy takes more hostages, assassinates developing Iraqi leaders and savagely beats suspected collaborators.
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Senior Tories who dismissed the tax guarantee as a hostage to fortune will feel vindicated by Mr Hague's backdown.
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The Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi repeated his call for the release of hostages.
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Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent psychopath, trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed.
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We successfully negotiated the release of the hostages.
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The other five hostages had been released earlier in the siege.
Times, Sunday Times
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Turlough O'Connor from a crannoge, after he had drowned his keepers; from which it would appear such structures might be used for prisons, and, probably, would be specially convenient for the detention of hostages.
An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800
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The blasts also triggered chaos inside the building, which a number of hostages seized upon as their cue to escape.
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Read in studio A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell.
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In a beautiful and affecting way, Shostakovich evokes the sounds of the Moonlight Sonata, the triplet arpeggios and the dotted rhythm of the main theme, without really quoting it.
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Next, there was Iran-Contra when St. Ronnie let ollie north run the government and make illegal deals with the Iranians (who had just recently releases 44 American is had held hostage for over a year, even keeping them longer at Reagan's request so he'd look good when they got released during his inauguration) and used the money to supply arms to the Contras, who wanted to overthrow the legitimately elected gov of Nicaraugua.
Obama touts financial reform, says GOP stance 'deceptive'
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According to the International Maritime Organization, in the past 12 months, near the Somali coast 67 ships were hijacked, 714 crew members are currently held hostage by pirates.
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BUT, they are also strongly nationalistic, which is one reason it would likely have been counter-productive to ever attack the country after we got our hostages back in 1980.
"Barack Obama extended the olive branch to Iran's leaders last Friday in a videotaped message praising a 'great civilization'..."
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It's game on as the carefully planned heist spirals into a hostage situation.
The Sun
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From here, the novel follows Vlad Dracula from his days as a young hostage at Sultan Murad's court in Edirne through his tumultuous career as a fugitive, a warlord Prince, a prisoner and a noble in the court of the king of Hungary.
Archive 2009-03-01
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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
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Many of the 349 hostages now being treated in hospital are in a serious condition and could yet die.
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Hostas are very thirsty plants, and get even thirstier in containers.
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During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry.
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Immured in a dark airless cell, the hostages waited six months for their release.
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The Beiruti felt like a hostage in his or her own city.
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There is no reason why hostas can't be grown in containers just as successfully as an exotic hibiscus.
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Jeez, " Little John said, shaking his head at the other hostages.
Step on a Crack
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Why any coach gives such a hostage to fortune or voluntarily offers the opposition unsought additional motivation is forever debatable.
Times, Sunday Times
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The crew of 20 quickly regained control of the vessel but the skipper offered himself to the attackers as a hostage to ensure his men's safety.
The Sun
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Aim To investigate the cytotoxic activity of HDAC inhibitor Trichostatin A (TSA)combined with anticancer drugs targeting DNA on T24 bladder cancer cell line.
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Any taking of hostages is unacceptable and must be firmly opposed by the international community.
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Fierce fighting continued amid rebel threats to kill hostages.
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He said we were doing business with the government of Iran—in other words, the ayatollah himself—and that we were trading arms for hostages.
An American Life
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Police said although the man was unharmed he was held hostage for between three and four hours.
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But within the RAM buffer pools, the DBMSs were still hostage to all the structural inefficiencies of the block-oriented I/O strategy that had been created to deal with hard disk drives.
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To encourage wildlife, they planted cotoneaster to provide winter fruit for birds, while the pond, edged with bamboos, sedges, grasses, astilbes, hostas and candelabra primulas, attracts both insects and birds.
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It's game on as the carefully planned heist spirals into a hostage situation.
The Sun
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Then they attempted a repeat of the 1970s hostage-style device, blindfolding foreigners in a ploy designed to intimidate troops out of the country.
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It may be more of an exchange of hostages than a leap for freedom.
Times, Sunday Times
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The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
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The hostages are now entering their fourth week in captivity.
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But their assassinations and long history of hostage-taking have earned FARC the label terror organization by the U.S. and the European Union.
CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2008
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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.
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The embattled president also denied recent claims that he was being held hostage by his own soldiers.
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Libreville - Workers at a French timber subsidiary in Gabon held managers hostage in a French-style "bossnapping" to secure their pay demands, both sides said on Tuesday.
News24 Top Stories
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Releasing the hostages has been seen as a gesture of goodwill/a goodwill gesture.
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Kevin Blanco, meanwhile, having taken his rec pen hostage, is perched on top of that basketball hoop with an air of eremitic remoteness.
Prison Porn
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He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
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This town is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators.
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How would you advise other hostages and potential hostages about ransom issues?
Christianity Today
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The robbers wanted safe conduct to the airport for themselves and their hostages.
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The changes of baroreceptor reflex, especially the disturbance of CNS regulation function are the main factors causing the decrease of orthostatic tolerance after bed rest.
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The Freytag Pyramid In Freytag-ese, Die Hard unfolds thusly: NYC cop John McClane arrives in LA to reunite with his estranged wife, Holly (exposition), but terrorists raid her office tower, taking everyone hostage except McClane (inciting incident), who escapes unseen and starts picking off the goons (rising action).
Scott Brown on Why Hollywood Needs a New Model for Storytelling
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Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
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The US government remained steadfast in its refusal to do any deals for the release of the hostages.
Times, Sunday Times
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the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene
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He may thereby speed the integration of the two companies but has given a hostage to fortune.
Times, Sunday Times
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In addition to local nurseries, hostas are available from several mail-order nurseries.
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So now BO comes to office and a bunch of teenage Somali pirates take a sea captain hostage in the Indian Ocean and Obama oks blowing their heads off.
Is Rush Limbaugh really that hard to understand?
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John McCain was defined as a hostage of right-wing extremists by the time votes were cast in 2008; many centrist voters claimed that they would have voted for Mr. McCain "if only he had been the moderate John McCain of the 2000 primary campaign.
Stay Constant, Mr. Romney, and Beware Demagogues
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The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.
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He enjoys long walks, romantic dinners, and rescuing hostages.
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This decision has removed the last obstacle to the hostages' release.
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The light was low and filtering through the flowers, soft breezes were blowing, and the air was heavy with the scent of hosta blossoms - it's no wonder that I fell in love.
Vignettes from the K-State Gardens « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
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In my haste to write while thinking about the SEALS I inadvertantly wrote the wrong name for the hostage which corrected is Captain Robert Phillips.
How about those Navy Seals on the Bainbridge sniping the pirates and saving Capt. Roberts?
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Common bulbs planted in the fall for the spring are tulips, daffodils, hyacinths, muscari, crocuses and perennials such as peonies, daylilies, hostas, and coral-bells.
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Wounded and held hostage with a makeshift electromagnet stuck in your chest, you take a couple of sardine ...
Dan Persons: ReelzChannel: Step Aside, Iron Man: Top 10 Guys Gone Metal
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Knowing who is holding their son and having some idea that the hostage-taking was to raise awareness of impoverished villagers is a crumb of comfort to his worried parents.
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He has made himself - and all of us - hostage to a drongo and a psychopath.
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The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
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A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.
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Pianist Damon Denton scampers through Shostakovich's figurations with a keen ear for melody and texture.
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I feel a degree of empathy for the man held hostage, and for his family.
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Please do not let them get away with holding the extended edition hostage until everyone buys the theatrical versions.
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But their real-life experience of hostage rescue is limited.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lift and divide overcrowded clumps of perennials, including campanulas, daylilies, hostas, peonies, sedums, and Shasta daisies.
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A team of commandoes got the hostages out from the rebel base.
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Some gardeners swear that coffee grounds will even keep slugs away from ultra-vulnerable hosta plants.
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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.
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Actually I can tell you my plan to choreograph the other Shostakovich ballets.
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All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric.
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If you think that a hostage situation like the one in Russia could not happen here, you are sadly mistaken.
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This is a vicious man who was prepared to take hostages and spill blood if necessary.
Times, Sunday Times
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A police officer was given a national police bravery award for tackling a gunman who was holding his children hostage.
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As to who really controls these hostages, this is all now part of another very delicate situation, political and diplomatic reality.
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The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
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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.
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We must exchange hostage for hostage.
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We thought Khomeini would probably intercede and free the hostages, or at least talk to us about finding some way to negotiate a settlement.
The Good Fight
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The gunman is holding two children hostage in the building.
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In reality, kidnapping, hostage taking, raping captured women and selling them as slaves or for ransom is all part and parcel of Mohammedan warfare and tradition that goes back to the meshugga prophet.
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
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The act of shooting a man holding others hostage is good.
Catching Up on SciFi Movies (Part 5)
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Later that night, Antonio pulled off something of a coup by arranging a very affordable set price dinner for us all in the Hostal de los Reyes Catolicos, the magnificent five-star parador hotel that stands next to the cathedral.
The train in Spain: a pilgrimage for softies
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He said they would free all the hostages if police released the rest of the detained protesters.
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The hostage said there wasn't much shooting heard toward the end of the stand-off because a deal had been reached.
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An old sidekick is bitter he was left in prison after a battle goes wrong, so he takes an woman hostage to draw his mentor out.
Superhero Prose Fiction: Unique - The Final Flight Of the Blue Bee
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He said a police special action force trained for hostage rescue had not been deployed as promised. Instead, a local Manila police Swat team was used.
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Give hostages to fortune.
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The group are holding two western tourists hostage .
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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.
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You can increase varieties of agapanthus, hosta and hemerocallis by division in spring to early summer or after flowering.
Times, Sunday Times
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The group are holding two western tourists hostage .
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Tenor Michael König acquits himself well as Katerina's mercurial lover Serguéi, and Ludovít Ludha, in the role of Katerina's abusive stepfather Boris, summons that notorious Shostakovian enigma as authoritarian kulak and bumbling sexual predator.
A Rollicking and Riveting 'Lady Macbeth'
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Plants Delight: Always the catalog with the most clever and timely covers, its pages are filled with unusual and cool perennials, with an emphasis on asarum, hardy ginger lilies, hellebores, hostas and ornamental grasses.
The Seattle Times
