How To Use Hostage In A Sentence

Most of the child hostages who were seized by terrorists were reported to be alive.
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
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
These malignant Las Vegas showgirl lookalikes are holding Earth hostage, controlling the monsters with shrewdly hidden remote devices.
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
This was meant to pave the way for talks aimed at gaining the release of the hostages.
Met Police hostage negotiators also gave support. The Sun
The two hostages of the escape attempt received medals of valour and were credited by the local press for thwarting the escape.
The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
Special Forces reconnoitered the jungle, looking for U.N. forces being held hostage as part of Cobra Gold 2002 exercises.
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
At the jewish centrum Chabad Lubavitch 8 Israelian hostages were freed. Indian Commandos Free 8 Israeli Hostages as Siege Continues
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.
The group is known to have been holding at least a dozen western hostages. Times, Sunday Times
He said Hezbollah started the crisis and is the nation of Lebanon hostage.
The army used microphones to urge the gunmen to release the hostages and surrender.
1972 - Israeli Athletes are taken hostage by Palestinian Black September (group) at 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich massacre.
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
When they did so last May 500 soldiers were taken hostage by the rebels.
Radical, militant factions want to continue using the hostages as a lever to gain concessions from the west.
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
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.
The opportunity to knock somebody out quietly or take a hostage is not often present since enemies tend to rove in groups.
Everybody who goes into this region, whoever they are, is at risk of being taken hostage.
A drama of labor extortion with the heroines memory as hostage.
The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
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.
For a politician to have a clear objective is to offer hostages to his opponents.
His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
The robbers wanted safe conduct to the airport for themselves and their hostages.
The government should continue to use its influence for the release of all hostages.
The truth is that a hostage was not freed by the kidnappers.
But have you seen an enormous rise in hostage taking? 'Stalling For Time' With An FBI Hostage Negotiator
Coalition forces continue to bring the fight to the enemy and rescue hostages.
She is held hostage by a masked woman wearing long black gloves and high-heeled boots.
Three children were taken hostage during the bank robbery.
The hostages were used as a human shield .
The terrorists are holding three men hostage.
His release turned out to follow the pattern set by that of the other six hostages.
Yes indeed, and clearly that's galling the people who are holding those three Italian hostages, originally four.
Striking oil workers holding expatriate staff hostage agreed to release them on Friday.
Elsewhere in the world, hostage-taking still continues virtually unnoticed in the outside world.
She was taken/held hostage by the gunmen.
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
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’.
A dozen hostages were shot in reprisal for the killing of an army officer.
It looked like a sop thrown to the minority, yet another hostage to fortune. Paul VI - The First Modern Pope
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
He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
MR. KELLY: Yeah, well, I think that there's a whole kind of legalist definition of hostages. Trina's Kitchen
With the reduction in foreign investments, the government will be even more a hostage to the whims of the international oil price.
The hostage had a rifle levelled at his head.
Unable to shop around, these householders may become hostages to huge price increases.
The hostages wept for joy on their release.
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
The hijackers kept the pilot as a hostage on board the plane.
He must be treated as a hostage of high rank, not as a common prisoner.
One theory is that the hostages fell victim to bandits.
Columbian rebels FARC release fouth hostage, but fail to free two others, angering the government. Colombia Suspends Hostage-Release Program
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
The bombers agreed to release the hostages in exchange for safe passage. Times, Sunday Times
They had become hostages at sea, where captives are more discreetly disposed of than anywhere else.
The ambassador declared that there would be grave consequences if the hostages were not released.
The hostage crisis bore a remarkable similarity to another attack last year.
The Packers are owned by their fans, so the city can not be held hostage for a new stadium.
Through their eyes, a white woman traveling in a car filled with black folks looked like a hostage.
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.
bushwhacked," one of the hostages should suffer death. How a one-legged rebel lives : reminiscences of the Civil War,
The victims are forced into their own car and held hostage while the gang use their cards in cash machines and shops. The Sun
Read in studio A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell.
In a separate incident in the tribal areas yesterday, gunmen hijacked an official van and took hostage its two occupants.
Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
Their blossoming relationship may now be hostage to how bloodily China handles anti-Chinese protests by Tibetans.
Inside the mansion, the hostages have displayed gallantry, solidarity and stoicism.
Perhaps a bit like Stockholm syndrome, where hostages feel empathy and love towards their captors. The Sun
Making objectives explicit is a hostage to fortune and the failure to do so may reflect a shrewd awareness. 2.
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
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.
Now they are all hostage to negotiations between the regime and rebels on lifting the blockade. Times, Sunday Times
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'
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
They are calling for the release of the hostages on humanitarian grounds.
The exact location of the hostages is unknown.
You have a known murderer, out from prison on license, who is holding hostages in a house.
None of this is reassuring for British or American hostages. Times, Sunday Times
When a couple is taken hostage in their home by an intruder, a simple home invasion robbery turns into something much more complicated.
He momentarily confounded his critics by his cool handling of the hostage crisis.
Every day, the enemy takes more hostages, assassinates developing Iraqi leaders and savagely beats suspected collaborators.
Senior Tories who dismissed the tax guarantee as a hostage to fortune will feel vindicated by Mr Hague's backdown.
The Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi repeated his call for the release of hostages.
Morrison finds herself the hostage of a violent psychopath, trapped in a siege that cannot end without bloodshed.
We successfully negotiated the release of the hostages.
The other five hostages had been released earlier in the siege. Times, Sunday Times
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
The blasts also triggered chaos inside the building, which a number of hostages seized upon as their cue to escape.
Read in studio A prison inmate has taken a member of staff hostage in a cell.
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'
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.
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'..."
It's game on as the carefully planned heist spirals into a hostage situation. The Sun
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
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
Many of the 349 hostages now being treated in hospital are in a serious condition and could yet die.
During the theft he comes upon a chambermaid whom he takes hostage, then kills, as his escape attempt goes awry.
Immured in a dark airless cell, the hostages waited six months for their release.
The Beiruti felt like a hostage in his or her own city.
Jeez, " Little John said, shaking his head at the other hostages. Step on a Crack
Why any coach gives such a hostage to fortune or voluntarily offers the opposition unsought additional motivation is forever debatable. Times, Sunday Times
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
Any taking of hostages is unacceptable and must be firmly opposed by the international community.
Fierce fighting continued amid rebel threats to kill hostages.
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
Police said although the man was unharmed he was held hostage for between three and four hours.
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.
It's game on as the carefully planned heist spirals into a hostage situation. The Sun
Then they attempted a repeat of the 1970s hostage-style device, blindfolding foreigners in a ploy designed to intimidate troops out of the country.
It may be more of an exchange of hostages than a leap for freedom. Times, Sunday Times
The class was held hostage by a hooded gunman.
The hostages are now entering their fourth week in captivity.
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
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 embattled president also denied recent claims that he was being held hostage by his own soldiers.
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
Releasing the hostages has been seen as a gesture of goodwill/a goodwill gesture.
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
He was taken hostage while on his first foreign assignment as a television journalist.
This town is being held hostage by mugs, thugs, murderers and intimidators.
How would you advise other hostages and potential hostages about ransom issues? Christianity Today
The robbers wanted safe conduct to the airport for themselves and their hostages.
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
Paris children held hostage An masked man armed with a revolver is holding twenty-five children hostage in a nursery school in Paris.
The US government remained steadfast in its refusal to do any deals for the release of the hostages. Times, Sunday Times
the homecoming of the released hostages was an affecting scene
He may thereby speed the integration of the two companies but has given a hostage to fortune. Times, Sunday Times
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?
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
The hostage had been shackled to a radiator.
He enjoys long walks, romantic dinners, and rescuing hostages.
This decision has removed the last obstacle to the hostages' release.
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?
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
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.
He has made himself - and all of us - hostage to a drongo and a psychopath.
The hijackers kept the pilot on board the plane as hostage.
A British journalist was held hostage for over four years.
I feel a degree of empathy for the man held hostage, and for his family.
Please do not let them get away with holding the extended edition hostage until everyone buys the theatrical versions.
But their real-life experience of hostage rescue is limited. Times, Sunday Times
A team of commandoes got the hostages out from the rebel base.
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.
All the noise being made about the hostages at that time was just political rhetoric.
If you think that a hostage situation like the one in Russia could not happen here, you are sadly mistaken.
This is a vicious man who was prepared to take hostages and spill blood if necessary. Times, Sunday Times
A police officer was given a national police bravery award for tackling a gunman who was holding his children hostage.
As to who really controls these hostages, this is all now part of another very delicate situation, political and diplomatic reality.
The reporting of the hostage story was fair, if sometimes overblown.
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.
We must exchange hostage for hostage.
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
The gunman is holding two children hostage in the building.
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
The act of shooting a man holding others hostage is good. Catching Up on SciFi Movies (Part 5)
He said they would free all the hostages if police released the rest of the detained protesters.
The hostage said there wasn't much shooting heard toward the end of the stand-off because a deal had been reached.
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
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.
Give hostages to fortune.
The group are holding two western tourists hostage .
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.
The group are holding two western tourists hostage .
It should have been an exercise in ritual humiliation - especially when he was ambushed on local radio by the brother of the murdered hostage.
Month after month, images of protests, the hostage crisis, and other tempestuous events came pouring out of my homeland.
resistless hostages
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
They were accused of inhumanity in their treatment of the hostages.
These rules made sense in an era when hijackers demanded money or held hostages for political purposes.
President Bush is being widely praised for his deft handling of the hostage crisis.
‘We want to go home; please help us so that we are not cut up into pieces because then you would bear the guilt of orphaning our children,’ said one of the hostages, speaking in an Egyptian accent.
This decision has removed the last obstacle to the hostages' release.
Don Nickles, R-Okla. who is holding the bill hostage because Sen.
There was none of the drama and relief of a hostage release.
CHANCE: Well, we've had some quotes coming through to us on the Russian Interfax news agency from a top security official here in Moscow, saying that they now are actively considering the possibility of using what they call adequate action to bring to an end this hostage crisis. CNN Transcript Oct 25, 2002
In one of the Nazi street raids, Ili was forced to clean the sidewalk and in April 1938 she and Gerda were arrested and jailed for six weeks as hostages for Robert. Ilona Kronstein.
He did not rebel when John took his castles; he gave up his two sons as hostages; he supported John against the Papal Interdict; and he supported John in the baronial rebellion.
they held two hostages
In a communiqué issued August 29, he ‘demanded that the kidnappers release forthwith their hostages unharmed.’
The Prime Minister was extremely cautious, saying nothing inflammatory and giving no hostages to fortune.
Harrison and Steve nobody will care about a new WW, unless its a 1940s period piece with maybe jennifer connelly. the 70s lynda carter is holding the character hostage. most female superheros suck. what we need is a She-Hulk movie. beyonce would be good in that. jada pinkett as Jennifer Susan Walters, beyonce as She-hulk. now thats some extra butter in your popcorn right there. Beyonce Knowles wants Wonder Woman; WB Wants McG to Direct? | /Film
This is not least because - curiously for a student of discourse - his own discursive practices give hostages to fortune. The Times Literary Supplement
Any hostages in the firing line would have been sacrificed.
Ten hostages have been released unharmed but five remain unaccounted for.
Suddenly word came that four of the TWA hostages had been kept behind, still held by Hezbollah who were said to be seeking a “nonbelligerency” guarantee from the United States. Turmoil and Triumph
Together, Minnig and Cipriani carry the hopes for a peaceful resolution of the hostage crisis here.
Wounded and held hostage with a makeshift electromagnet stuck in your chest, you take a couple of sardine cans and a used vacuum cleaner and build yourself a set of battle armor that gets you out of your predicament. Dan Persons: ReelzChannel: Step Aside, Iron Man: Top 10 Guys Gone Metal
But Eskel Gorov was a prisoner in their hands, and Gorov was not a hostage to lose.
Mr. Santos's decision to comply with FARC's demands for the hostage releases was fustigated by his predecessor, former President Alvaro Uribe, who said that giving the guerrillas room would help them reinforce their operations. Colombia's FARC Releases Hostages
I submit that not trying to make such a link risks making the public sector endemically second-class and increasingly hostage to its many critics. Letters: Battles to be fought – and won – on pay
The other five hostages had been released earlier in the siege. Times, Sunday Times
She smiled, holding me hostage with her piercing eyes.

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