Sentences with phrase «as a hostage»

His arrest came after the arrest of the «Cuban Five» and he is being held as hostage against their release.

One way government compete with one another is by taxing you in front and promise to pay it back latter, thereby retaining citizens by using your investments as hostage.

She is locked at the knee to the wall just in case there was any confusion about her status as a hostage or prisoner.

Not to mention they will hold our house as a hostage.

Let no one say that Israeli filmmakers hold back on portraying its citizens, particularly its soldiers, as ordinary, often scared citizens, despite that country's success in winning five wars, capturing Eichmann, and rescuing scores of its citizens held as hostages in Uganda's airport.

Oh, until a minute before Layla is taken as a hostage by the bad guy so that Will can save her and then, in a public place, proclaim his error and ever - lasting devotion.

All too often, pets are the only source of comfort and security that these victims have, and even worse, are used as hostages to keep victims in a dangerous situation.

Lydia (Elizabeth Banks) is called in as hostage negotiator.

July — On the 7th, it is reported that 63 women and children have escaped after being held as hostages by Boko Haram.

Thus, all other types of extremities such as hostage taking, hijacking and planting bombs in public places, are clearly forbidden in Islam.

Across Britain, hard - working EU nationals are losing sleep as hostages of the government's negotiation, and across Europe, Brits are reconsidering their careers and ambitions under a cloud of political uncertainty.

Also you have situations that are completely unrealistic such as hostage situations in which outlaw bikers show up and provide intel.

These gangs bully users into paying them, holding the PC or the Android phone as hostage with a predominantly pestilent form of malware, until the victim pays the ransom.

The film follows John's time as a hostage, Gail's efforts to convince her former father - in - law to pay the $ 17 million ransom, and Getty's determination to do as little as possible in regards to the kidnapping, while he keeps accumulating wealthy from his oil business and buying even more things to keep around his estate.

Entrusted with the responsibility of side - handle baton and weaponless self - defense instructor for the State of California instructing officers in all prisons throughout California, on the Honor Guard as well as the Hostage Negotiation Management Team, and Use of Force Weapons instructor with an AK - 47 and.38 Side arm.

The President and others who recognize the shortcomings of the colonization of peoples by more powerful foreign nations would do well to heed the words of Pope Francis — for whom the President often expresses admiration — about the new form of colonization, holding foreign aid as a hostage when their nation's views reflect a different understanding of the human person, one held by many Americans as well.

In a joint statement, they said: «Turkish officials who participate in the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

From now on, you will forever see new mothers as hostages ruled by baby sleep thieves.

In recent weeks she has been described variously as a hostage - taker to «the most dangerous woman in Britain».

A government whip is held at Buckingham Palace as hostage MP until the Queen returns safely.

His idea of offering Nick Boles as a hostage to the Lib Dems during particularly fraught Coalition negotiations brought the house down.

He is, tragically, the victim of a growing proclivity of the Chinese government to use children of rights lawyers and activists as hostages to press their parents.

«IRT operatives deployed to Port Harcourt by IGP Ibrahim Idris swung into immediate action as the hostage was not released after the ransom was paid as negotiated and agreed.

Dems will continue using the Medicaid expansion to paint GOP governors in purple or blue states as hostage to a national Tea Party agenda.

I love to get captured & kept bound & gagged as your hostage, with several items & with varied positions.

At the execution ground, Zhesan takes the Emperor as hostage, to make them release Tianxin.

Fusong takes Shitou as his hostage to force Zhesan to hand over the book.

The summer of 1976, and the world holds its breath as a hostage crisis unfolds at Entebbe airport, Uganda.

Jackson took Judge Harold Haley, a prosecutor, and three female jurors as hostages and Haley was subsequently killed while the teenager was trying to escape.

With Doug as his hostage — seriously, would anyone mind if he disappeared for good this time?

After spending months as a hostage in Syria, a photojournalist (Roman Kolinka) heads off on a trip to India in the latest from Mia Hansen - Løve (Things To Come, Eden, The Father Of My Children).

Blud knows he's doomed, so he engineers an excape with the doc as a hostage.

As the hostages struggle desperately to survive the harrowing torture, they realize that there is nothing a Mother won't do to protect her children.»

But when their sneering ruler Mehmed II (a hammy Dominic Cooper) comes to demand the eldest son from every family as a hostage, Vlad seeks the help of an ancient vampire who offers him a terrible deal that might just save his people.

It's hard not to feel bad for the actors (mainly Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan) who signed up for this dumpster fire, because they look about as excited as a hostage being held at gunpoint.

Synopsis: Devastated by an unspeakable tragedy while on the job as a hostage negotiator for the LAPD, Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) resigns and accepts a low - profile job as chief of police in the sleepy town of Bristo Camino in Ventura County.

It's a hard lesson for Nasha (Anna Lee), who misdirects the Gestapo soldiers during his escape and hides him when the area is cordoned off at curfew, then chooses to turn him in when her father (Walter Brennan), a scholar who clearly knows more about the resistance than he voices, is arrested as a hostage.

A weekend away turns into a standoff between a mother (Gabrielle Union) and a group of criminals that are holding her children as hostages.

As the film opens, two crims — the hardened, older Vic (Eddie Marsan, Sherlock Holmes) and the younger, less confident Danny (Martin Compston, The Damned United)-- fresh from jail, deck out a vacant apartment as a hostage room with meticulous precision.

The Hollywood Reporter, John De Fore (April 19, 2018) As the hostage who will come to most closely identify with the outlaws, Rapace has the film's biggest job.

While there, enter the bad guys, who promptly take the kids as hostages, lock Shaun out and let her know that they want Grandpa's $ 4,000,000 in exchange for the kids.

In one farmer's home they found a Confederate uniform coat and, in retaliation, took the man's two young daughters as hostages, treating them «in a manner too inhuman and revolting to dwell upon.»

Amazon's attempt to stop customers buying Hachette books as a way of putting pressure on the publisher also prompted outrage from almost 1,000 authors, including Donna Tartt, Salman Rushdie, John Grisham and Stephen King, who signed a petition demanding Amazon stop using writers as hostages in its negotiations.

ECMC appears to want to hold Conniff as a hostage or prisoner to her situation and forgo the Constitutional fresh start afford to her by law.

You can ziptie people to act as hostages and even move them around the level, which forces any cops to go after them first, although you do have to be careful because civilian deaths incur a cleanup cost.