How To Use Kidnap In A Sentence

All three impulsively committed a felonious act that lead to their incarceration, i.e., attempted murder and kidnapping, attempted murder, and murder.
A hard-nosed unmoveable man, who sacrifices his lovely daughter to ward off future kidnap threats on his beloved son.
The short flowered dress and the high-heeled sandals she was wearing when she arrived in the park that day were identical to the clothing worn by the kidnapper. I’ll Walk Alone
The discipline of the guards is not very good. Sentry duty wearies them, for they must also serve as torturers, interrogators and perform the duties of kidnappers.
The threat to foreign contractors has escalated in the past month following a series of kidnappings and murders.

Rather, Robertson, skulking ahead, has now downgraded his earlier call to murder and mayhem to mere kidnapping.
Both were convicted of indecently assaulting one victim, two charges of kidnapping, one of attempted kidnapping and three of false imprisonment.
Shizuko is a famous tango dancer and deferential wife, who is kidnapped by yakuza as payment for her businessman husband's debts.
There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.
You remember the day that baby was kidnapped from the rest area on the interstate?
What there is, is a difficult political issue now that we have discovered the VPOTUS and his associates broke this law—not for a kidnapped child, but to justify the imminent invasion of Iraq with confabulated links between Saddam and 9/11. The Volokh Conspiracy » Radio Host Waterboarded, Says It’s Torture:
The parents made an emotional plea to their child's kidnappers.
She knew the kidnap was a fake because she was supposed to run off with the kid and the money. Bitter Gold Hearts
There are documented cases of rape as a tool of war, mass killings and kidnappings.
One young girl from the power -ful Alouite family was out playing in the street when she was kidnapped. A House in Fez
He is kidnapped and his friends try to save him - but are are captured by the Queen's crafty cunning.
According to sources, Smart will testify that Mitchell was motivated primarily by sex and not religion in kidnapping her, and that his behavior was inconsistent with that of a 'prophet,' which he proclaimed himself to be. Reader poll: Send Roman Polanski to prison? (Jack Bog's Blog)
That custom lacks the quaintness of lobola and in my world, it would be called kidnapping.
Towler was serving 12 years to life for rape, felonious assault and kidnapping for an abduction on May 24, 1981.
He pleaded guilty to three robberies, kidnap and one offence of aggravated burglary.
Davis also faces three other special circumstances in connection with the murder charge: kidnapping, burglary and robbery.
And can you envision a scenario that would not leave behind embittered relatives who would raise their boys to be the future “terrorists” or “insurgents”, battling in guerilla warfare, using suicide bombers, kidnapping and torturing individual Americans, or whatever else they could do to hurt us in the future? Think Progress » “Guantanamo ought to be closed immediately”
The formula includes the obvious, such as murder, rape, kidnapping, and so on.
The attack was only the second known kidnapping of foreign women since the wave of kidnappings began earlier this year.
The truth is that a hostage was not freed by the kidnappers.
A rather rude and tactless comment a few weeks ago when some of them had tried to visit her in hospital had assured them that she was still just as unsociable as before the kidnapping.
A child who had been terrorized and quite possibly emotionally and sexually abused by an adult kidnaper for four years. O'REILLY ABUSES THE ABUSED: Then Lies That He's Done So
To go back to the kidnapping in France to murder in Germany hypo, it seems like Germany would not extradite, but if the guy were stupid enough to go to France, he could be prosecuted. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Exonerated” Former Death Row Inmate Reconvicted
A spokesman for the parallel government said that the two men had been kidnapped.
They hijacked vehicles, even UN convoys, and staged kidnappings for ransom.
His family said they had no idea why anyone would want to kidnap him and had expressed concern about his ailing health.
Englishman Paul Chandler and his wife Rachel in October last year to sail to the United Republic of Tanzania on the way from the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean by Somali pirates kidnapped.
Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found.
Either Quinn knew just what he was doing or he was going to provoke the kidnapper into putting down the phone.
But why, I asked, would soldiers maraud the countryside on a murder-and-kidnapping spree? The Fall of Mexico
It's no wonder the local Harlem crime lord calls on him when his daughter is kidnapped by the Mafia.
We're to avoid any action that could be construed as aiding and abetting a kidnap negotiation, those are our strict instructions from the State Department.
There have been reports of recent attempted kidnappings, muggings and stabbings.
This pattern is only used in the passive. It is feared he may have been kidnapped.
By accepting the mission, Charles is pitched into a world of kidnap, mystery and murder.
She appeared on television to plead with the kidnappers.
When Haitian disobediently attempted to implement policies they had been elected to implement, they were undermined, and if necessary, kidnapped. Isabel Macdonald: Clinton Apologizes for U.S. Role in Destroying Haitian Democracy (Happy April Fool's Day!)
Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
Garrido and his wife Nancy, who kept Dugard and her children in a makeshift hut in their backyard, face charges of kidnapping, false imprisonment and rape.
Yeah, I named him Seymour, and then proceeded to behead him (the flowering stem is inedible, and saps the nutrients from the rest of the plant ... it had to be done!) and kidnap some of the "offspring" (read: stalks) to make these muffins! What Seymour Made!
Jon Summers, a spokesman for Mr. Reid, said the senator had long been concerned over “rampant” levels of crime in polygamous communities, including the abuse of women and children, financial crimes like welfare fraud and tax evasion, kidnapping and extortion. Polygamous Sect to Defend 6 Members in Court and Its Practices on Capitol Hill
He has just been arrested in the small Andalusian town of Alhaurin and is about to return to Britain to start a life sentence for a grim kidnapping that occurred in Kent in 2006 and of which he was convicted in his absence. New Europe: British criminals no longer comfortable on 'Costa del Crime'
The wonderfully constructed opening montage sequence, consisting of flashback action coupled with newspaper headlines and photographs, emphasises the centrality of Daisy's kidnapping to the plot.
Gunman assaults woman after terror drive POLICE appealed yesterday for witnesses after a woman was kidnapped at gunpoint and sexually assaulted.
Over 1,700 people were kidnapped by armed opposition groups and paramilitary forces.
She was kidnapped and sexually assaulted at gunpoint.
That deadly combination has let loose a wave of vengeance killings, tribal vendettas, mercenary kidnappings and thievery.
We read this article in LC, maybe, about a group of dyke vigilantes in the Bay Area who were kidnapping guys who had been arrested for rape, clearly done the rape but gotten off on a technicality. MORE FROM GINNY BATES: CLASS
All of them were notorious criminals, who had been charged with every conceivable crime, from burglary to kidnapping and "maiming," and some not to be conceived of by the The Battle with the Slum
As their name indicated they were charged with handling all issues involving terrorism, such as the kidnapping of the Anderson family by Abu Sayyaf. Vince Flynn Collectors’ Edition #2
(Potere Operaio, No. 61, July 16, 1973) Even as late as November 1978, after the kidnapping and killing of Aldo Moro, Negri's own magazine, Rosso (Red), far from condemning the escalating violence of the Red Brigades, wrote: "In claiming as its own all militant actions on the proletarian side, the movement must relaunch the initiative on the terrain of organized counterpower and mass illegality. 'Apocalypse Soon': An Exchange
Many of the accused are alleged to have committed murder, kidnap and torture during the late 1970s.
Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found.
Smith was charged with three kidnappings, three robberies and three firearms offences relating to alleged incidents on the day.
I had a scheme for collecting that ransom without danger of being caught by counterplots that ought to commend itself to professional kidnappers.
However, when a woman gives birth her worst nightmare would be to have her child kidnapped from her.
Officials usually avoid even the term "drug cartels," and instead refer to them as "organized crime," perhaps more accurate now that much of the gangs' income comes from extortion and kidnapping. KansasCity.com: Front Page
Those three defendants are to face charges of kidnapping and complicity.
She explained how she was en route to New Mexico when she heard of the so-called kidnaping on her car radio. Standoff
Everyone knows that murder and manslaughter, kidnapping and terrorism, treason and high treason existed long before today's penal codes.
The agent was first charged with rape and kidnapping, according to Human Rights Watch.
Mr Sharif and six co - accused are facing charges of hijacking, attempted murder, kidnapping and terrorism.
A teenager was kidnapped, trussed up with his hands and feet bound together behind his back, a court heard.
For all their utility as traffic wardens and deputised keepers of the peace, there are also the satgas that kidnap opposition pamphleteers, beat up journalists, and chase rivals down the main street waving machetes.
In this novel, Victor Vail, a blind violin maestro, is saved from kidnapping by Doc (who incidentally wrote the piece Vail had just been performing). Dusk Before the Dawn » 2009 » December
Her kidnapper successfully extorted a ￡175,000 ransom for her release.
They are kidnapped, and spend a terrifying four years together in grim captivity - polar opposites unexpectedly finding a passionate friendship and comradeship in adversity.
GRACE: In kidnapping, there has to be an element called "asportation," which is movement, like I put you in my car and drive you away, or it could be as simply as a few inches of forced movement. CNN Transcript Sep 17, 2007
And then you ` ve got -- a capital case is going to where you ` ve got a child, kidnapping, asportation (ph) of the body ... CNN Transcript Dec 19, 2005
In a confession to police, Davis reportedly said he had not been in Petaluma before the night he allegedly kidnapped Polly.
LEBANON: Allegedly shady sheik suspected of staging his own kidnapping Quand une coquille se glisse dans l'Orient le Jour, ca donne ca! News.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs
The kidnappers kept the policeman at bay with an automatic pistol.
The author ushers in the names of the conspirators and their plot to kidnap Lincoln.
So far US has and is trying to strangulate Iran's economy (please read "Plan for Economic Strangulation of Iran"), repeatedly breached the Iranian airspace, arrested its diplomats and according to the latest reports probably has been involved in kidnapping another diplomat [13]. Iran vs. Saudi Arabia
When Creon kidnaps Antigone, the Chorus prays that Athene will aid King Theseus in bringing her back safely.
During last few decades hundreds of people from Kohat and other areas of NWFP were kidnapped for ransom many of them were released after payment of ransom by their families, good number of them were killed by the abductors, but in most of the cases people abducted from settled areas were kept in tribal areas of Pakistan, few of the abducted persons have also succeeded to escape from the prison cells of abductors, ‘last year Farooq Mechanic abducted from Kohat had escaped from the prison located in tribal area adjacent to Peshawar, he had got a chance to enter in a truck after unloading bricks from it, abductors were getting forced labor from prisoners to construct a building in tribal area,’ his agedly sister Madam Kishwar had said. Endless Abductions
The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof. Rodney Dangerfield
When an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggin (owner of Al's Toy Barn) kidnaps Woody, and Woody learns that he's a highly valued collectable from a 1950s TV show called "Woody's Roundup," the stage is set for a daring rescue attempt by the gang from Andy's room. Disney and Pixar's Full Animated Line-Up Through 2012! « FirstShowing.net
When he witnesses yet another murder being committed by his client, intimidation, kidnapping, and a vicious frame-up conspire to try to keep him from telling what he knows.
Kidnapping crime includes two concrete composing items : racketeered offense and illegal imprison offense.
Despite a nationwide hunt for the kidnap gang, not a trace of them was found.
To guarantee their safe exit from the prison, they kidnap a female Supreme Court judge who is around to check whether those with death sentences are taken good care of.
Details were released as detectives confirmed they now believe there was a sexual motive behind the girl's kidnap and murder.
The only thing left open to the kidnapper is face-to-face meets and that’s fish-in-a-barrel time for law enforcement. NOT GETTING AWAY WITH IT
Several months later, Mary Katherine remembered that Mitchell was among the homeless people the Smarts sometimes hired to do odd jobs and he was identified as the kidnapper. The Guardian World News
The inside of a van was as good a place as any to hold a kidnap victim.
When the kidnapping goes horribly wrong, everyone is left hurting and searching for revenge.
The two executives who were kidnapped last week are yet to be released by their abductors.
Her kidnapper extorted a ￡175,000 ransom for her release.
After her release she was able to give vital information about her kidnapper.
To coincide with the explosion, Digby would lead a rising in the Midlands and kidnap King James's daughter, Princess Elizabeth, ready to install her as a puppet queen.
Most of the kidnappings are by criminal groups that want a ransom, or sectarian groups that want to sow divisions.
We're now in a meeting with our ambassador, " he said. "We have contacts with the Sudanese authorities to identify and localise the kidnappers.
Let my dad kidnap me, he pleaded as he stood at the edge of the driveway.
Secret confinement creates an alternative to the asportation element of kidnapping.
He said too many kidnappings were taking place and the kidnappers were becoming richer at the end of the day.
She only flinched at his words as she realized that her worst fear had come true, she had been kidnapped.
Boromir dies trying to stop a band of orcs from kidnapping Merry and Pippin.
Any story where a space-pirate wielding a space-axe could chop through a ray-shielded space-airlock, kidnap a beautiful space-princess and escape in a space-superdreadnought over a mile long, destroying at least one or perhaps two planets during the resulting space-battle, without this seeming in any particular out of place with the scale, scope, drive or moral code portrayed in the rest of the story, then the story is a Space Opera. SF Tidbits for 10/2/06
The recording gives an account of his kidnapping.
Synopsis: Soren, a young barn owl, is kidnapped by owls of St. Aggie's, ostensibly an orphanage, where owlets are brainwashed into becoming soldiers.
A woman who suffered a 48-hour kidnap ordeal may have been the unwitting victim of an underworld drug debt row sparked by a string of recent seizures.
The most violent sequence in the film has him interrogating one of the kidnappers in a stuffy car.
The suspect is due in court here shortly on charges of kidnapping, housebreaking and theft.
The torment of having her baby kidnapped is written all over her face.
They were freed yesterday by their kidnappers unharmed.
There are at least three reports each year of procurers kidnapping maids off the street and forcing them into prostitution.
He is almost brushed aside by the police as they pursue the kidnapper.
He and his cloned cohorts kidnap children to steal their dreams, which turn into nightmares.
The kidnappers have demanded 1 million for his safe release.
Guy with a hook hand lived in here, the old-timers saic used to kidnap bad little boys and gut them with his hook. ' Deal Breaker
Girl, 16, raped by gang A TEENAGE girl was kidnapped and raped by a gang while police hunted for her.
Priests and nuns were known to kidnap Baptists and force them to become papists.
The VCTF is a joint FBI and Houston Police Department task force responsible for the investigation of, among other violent crimes, kidnaping, bank robbery, extortion, serial murder, and Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. Michael McMannus
They had to find the kidnappers before the trail went cold.
The charges against Abu Bakr and 113 of his followers included murder, kidnapping and the illegal possession of arms and ammunition.
Detective Holt said: "The kidnapper is a man we must catch and the sooner the better".
CNN is putting a doozie of a spin on the "coup" in Honduras. embrangled why didn't anyone tell our military they could just kidnap the president a la honduras and just name a new one? Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
A man has been taken into custody and has been charged with attempted kidnap.
Picketing gave way to marches through factories, when workers would chase blacklegs and occasionally kidnap managers.
Eric Knox, the handsome, brainy founder of Knox Technologies, has just been kidnapped from his own office.
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 events and power struggles which engulf them result in kidnapping, jealousy and romance!
Bad weather, however, delayed airdrops for Cross before the war ended so Donovan eventually scrubbed the sabotage and kidnap missions. Wild Bill Donovan
The concrete reality consists of kidnappings, murders, tortures, rapes and massacres.
After collecting the cash, the kidnapper made his escape down the disused railway line.
Not that resort to violence and kidnap hadn't already undermined their credibility.
Sea battles and voyages and plunder and buried treasure and king's pardons and kidnapped wenches.
US officials have cautioned against ransoms, saying they encourage further kidnappings.
In a presentencing memo justifying a sentence of hundreds of years for Phillip Garrido, District Attorney Vern Pierson said that Dugard spent the first one-and-a-half years after her kidnapping locked in a backyard shed. Jaycee Dugard's kidnapper gets life sentence
The report comes amidst hiegtened tension in the area over a serries of high profile kidnappings blamed by government forces on the local Philippines:Basilan Jailbreak reported - terror suspects escape
This article sources it to the attempted frame-up of Phil Berrigan et al. on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Kissenger, etc., based on testimony by an informant/provacateur who had infiltrated the Catholic nonviolent direct action antiwar movement. Discourse.net: 'Better Privacy' Firefox Add-On Eats Hidden Cookies
Singh said before his kidnapping that he does not acknowledge the legitimacy of the court ruling.
He paid the terrorist a ransom of 50000 for his kidnapped son.
What if all the cities in the US were wracked by a crime wave, with thousands of murders, kidnappings, burglaries, and carjackings in every major city every year?
The wife of a businessman has been kidnapped from her home in Surrey.
He was in direct contact with the kidnappers.
Because thepolice were involved in the kidnapping disaster, and becausethe man in charge, Lawson, was subsequently imprisonedfor murder (a previous case of Karen's, though I don't think that this has been recorded in a book), and because he's bloody-minded and arrogant, Grant is keen to keep the police out of it this time round. April 2009
Many carjackings and kidnappings take place at traffic lights, where cars are forced to stop.
He got back his son from the kidnappers
After being kidnapped Julie was held prisoner in a coffin-like box before being beaten unconscious and strangled.
He was acquitted of rape, attempted murder, administering poison with intent and kidnapping.
Washington - Shellye Stark murder trial (murder of her husband, Dale) - delayed Update: Sandra Cantu murder * Melissa Huckaby arrested and charged with her kidnapping and murder* Bonnie's Blog of Crime
Original charges of indecent assault and kidnap were dropped and Atkinson was found guilty of a lesser charge of false imprisonment.
If kidnappers get life imprisonment and their victims get their money back, it makes no sense that white-collar crimes can be treated so lightly.
‘Kidnapping young girls don't pay like it used to, pardner,’ Jack said.
Next entry: Family, friends to stand trial for kidnapping in deprogramming attempt You must be nicer to Muslims, Britain is told by UN human rights chiefs
It ` s my understanding, and I ` ve got the Nevada statute right here, kidnapping does include carrying away a person, but that would include even the smallest asportation of pushing them up against a wall. CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2007
The kidnappers have given us explicit instructions not to involve the police.
« FreeGaza. org: Kidnapped by the Israeli Navy Coyote Ugly: The term arises from the behavior of jaw-trap will gnaw off a leg in order to escape death. Karmalised
David Morse, as an American engineer, faces horrific conditions after being kidnapped by Colombian renegades.
Journalists in the zone are at serious risk of being kidnapped.
Well-born but impecunious younger brothers kidnap heiresses and roguishly attempt to persuade them into matrimony.
CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: Last night, I met with the attorney general of Baja, California, and heard directly about the hundreds -- thousands of killings going on below the border and the dozens of kidnappings going on on our side of the border; gang related. CNN Transcript Jul 9, 2008
The charges against Abu Bakr and 113 of his followers included murder, kidnapping and the illegal possession of arms and ammunition.
I appear weekly on tabloids, TV talk shows kidnap me to have me as a guest, and I can't go anywhere outside without a group of fangirls wanting to get a piece of me.
In a communiqué issued August 29, he ‘demanded that the kidnappers release forthwith their hostages unharmed.’
In that era, heiresses were kidnapped and forced to marry landless ‘squireens’ who had no hope of getting a wife on their own merits.
For a month, Belly was afraid hewasLevi Stubbs, until he found out the guy already had done twelve years of a life sentence for kidnaping and murder, and Belly thought he would have known if Levi had been locked down in this state for that crime. Credentials
The kidnappers have given us explicit instructions not to involve the police.
I got on my bike, called the police to report a kidnapping then chased after the car.
Thousands of Uyghur kids were kidnapped and beaten to become thieves in Han Chinese region. Global Voices in English » China: Urumqi mass incident and beyond
The Guardian summarised these difficulties rather well: ‘Missing [but not kidnapped or murdered] children, jealous spouses, petty crookery, ostrich rustling and beauty contest corruption.’
Dennis said he was uncertain whether the kidnapping was a case of mistaken identity.
The kidnapping occurred in broad daylight.
They have been behind many of the kidnappings of westerners in recent weeks.
But perhaps the most satisfying conclusion that he made was that Mitchell is suffering from "malingering" -- faking psychological symptoms to avoid criminal prosecution for the kidnapping of Elizabeth Smart. Robin Sax: "The People" Have the Right to a Speedy Trial, Too!
African American political and civic leaders say that equating a challenge to a judge's nomination with the kidnappings, atrocities and murders that black Americans faced during more than a half-century of lynchings is inappropriate.
I'll never forget the power of certain moments: in Mitchell's production of Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, Clytemnestra is secured inside a building, distraught at her daughter's kidnap; then it starts raining through a hole in the roof, with helicopters blasting through from outside. The artists's artist: theatre directors
I got so tired of watching the news because of all the kidnappings and rapes and murders and theft that filled that channel and I wanted to help put an end to it.
It is a measure of Donoghue's skill that she almost completely sidesteps the tabloid luridness that stained the news accounts of those actual kidnappings. No Exit
Colin Powell says that the kidnapping allegations are ‘absolutely baseless, absurd’.
Last week, gunmen kidnapped and then freed a British journalist in the southern city of Basra.
I also wouldn't kidnap her against her will and force her to bend to my will.
The father of the 16-year-old kidnap victim is appealing to her abductors to release her.
Police have released the e-fit picture of one of the duo they believe kidnapped the chef before dumping him in a field.
For Pullman fans, this kind of plucky self-confidence must sound familiar: it's Lyra Belaqua, the novel's crafty protagonist, who travels from Oxford to the Arctic Circle -- aided by armored bears, flying witches and a truth-telling compass that only she can read -- to rescue her kidnapped best friend. The Arctic Adventurer
GRACE: And then the so-called kidnapper says you know what, to heck with all the money. CNN Transcript Feb 2, 2009
His name also surfaced in Nicaragua, on a list compiled by terrorists of potential Latin American kidnap targets. Father of Day-Trading Sought
He was in direct contact with the kidnappers.
At the same time, you want us to deal with terror, with murder, with kidnap, with rape.
Police have uncovered a plot to kidnap the President's son.
Kidnappers just do not put up with disapproving glances and motherly clucks.
The kidnapping caused an international incident.
Every plainclothesman carried a pistol for use in an emergency The kidnappers emergency.
No, but I've heard of martial artists being kidnapped and made to fight at gunpoint by bikers.
An Italian aid worker was kidnapped by rebels last month, and still hasn't been released.
The suspected kidnaper posed as a hospital worker and befriended the baby's mother. CNN Transcript Jun 5, 2006
The predator rapist/kidnapper is going to A.. be more likely to hire a sex worker then commit the crime as part of that scenario. Thoughts on rescues, rescuers and realities « Bound, Not Gagged
Romasenko was arrested and jailed after the alleged kidnappers told police she had asked them for the favor.
A website message from the purported kidnappers Sunday all female Sunni Muslim prisoners in U.
This crime included murder, attempt to murder, dacoity, robbery and kidnapping.
She turned on the TV, and watched as old men discussed the events of the ‘Kidnapper’, a nickname given to a criminal who kidnaps women.
This blithely idiosyncratic, almost dialogue-free animated film concerns an old lady's quest to recover her grandson after he is mysteriously kidnapped during the Tour de France.

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