Phrases with «woman hostage»

The phrase "woman hostage" refers to a woman who is forcibly held captive by someone, usually as a means to control or manipulate others into doing something against their will. Full definition

Sentences with «woman hostage»

  • «Accidents happen, coercion happens, and there is a public - health imperative not to hold women hostage by hampering them from timely access to postcoital contraception.» (discovermagazine.com)
  • Multimillionaire commodities trader Adam Haber, who's trying to buy a State Senate seat, raised school taxes, opposed the property tax cap, and supports holding legislation ensuring equal pay for women hostage so that non-doctors can perform late term / partial birth abortions. (newsday.com)
  • Such as Scott Lloyd, director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, who held an immigrant woman hostage in an attempt to block her constitutional right to obtain an abortion? (plannedparenthoodaction.org)
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