Sentences with phrase «as hostage with»

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With actual net neutrality rules in the United States in limbo if not dead, large network owners such as Comcast are effectively free to engage in whatever activities they want, which is exactly how this situation has been perceived; Netflix had no choice but to give in to its customers being held hostage.

I experienced these events firsthand as one of seven Americans to meet with the ayatollah and the students holding the U.S. Embassy in the course of three trips to Iran during the hostage crisis.

A man writes to me about being taken hostage with his family and watching helplessly as the intruders pressed guns against his children's noses while his wife and daughter were threatened with rape.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

But eventually the mayor was taken prisoner and beheaded, and the Augustinians took his four - year - old son into protective custody, as a hostage in case of the situation worsening with reprisals to be taken by the family of the murdered man.

In 1985 as we floundered in the league and Brady won some special award for services to Italian football, I became obsessed with the idea of robbing a bank, taking everyone hostage and demanding that unless Liam Brady was flown over, resigned for Arsenal, and agreed to a sex change paid for by the bank, I would have no choice but to release the hostages.

Despite recent rumours regarding Raiola holding us hostage over Kean's first professional contract, which he won't be able to sign for a year or two, it looks as though he will remain with our youth squad for the current season.

NY1's intrepid political director Bob Hardt is otherwise indisposed (no word on whether he has been taken hostage by allies of a certain gubernatorial nominee as a result of sparking Lasagnagate), and so I will be live blogging the leaders meeting from the studio with the assistance of input from CapTon's Mike Whittemore and Kaitlyn Ross, who are in the Red Room.

The army operation in Mumbai is close to completion, with Indian army commandos raiding the Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels, as well as a Jewish centre to rescue remaining hostages.

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.

Such vote of confidence, which is continually passed on us from time to time as a people with pride and integrity, can not be rubbished by any negative personality that may be holding our people hostage as of today.

Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital's computer systems hostage, as they did in the May 12 attack dubbed WannaCry, which locked down many overseas hospitals with the demand for a ransom.

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

Stirring up the crowd with a grin and a shrug, he explains that the politicians are being held hostage by big business, which would just as soon pretend the inner city doesn't exist.

This movie starts off with a prison bus going down a empty stretch of road and on the other side the only car insight driven by one Dr Douglas Madsen as these two come closer and closer together something happens that sends the Dr's car to collide with the prison bus freeing four prisoners who decide to take the good Dr hostage and retreat to a remote cabin in the woods that just happens to be home of a family that is more dangerous then the prisoners now with no way out the prisoners and the hostage must fight to stay alive against the people in the cabin.

Meanwhile, as the money is being transported, Abdi strikes up a tenuous friendship with a frightened hostage.

For anyone not familiar with the events in Entebbe, the film is engaging enough as a historical account of a watershed moment in how the world chose to deal with terrorism — the actions of the Israeli Defence Forces prompted governments around the world to reassess the way they responded to acts of hostage taking.

Pike is a convincing zealot, bristling against the sexism inherent to how the male hostages try to earn her sympathy, but weighing the character down with a chintzy romance only makes everything else about her seem chintzy as well.

Combining newsreel footage with re-enactment's, the film captures the horror of the hostages — Americans Terry Anderson, Thomas Sutherland, Frank Reed; British citizens John McCarthy, Terry Waite; and Irish teacher Brian Keenan — as they are held by the Muslim fundamentalist group, the Hezbollah.

In Jerusalem, the battle is between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (Lior Ashkenazi), who's willing to negotiate with the hostage - takers as a means to end the constant warfare, and Defense Minister Shimon Peres (Eddie Marsan), a hardliner who's willing to let the hostages die to avoid negotiations.

A man travels with his boss to an evicted man's house where they find him holding his wife and two grade - school sons hostage; sheriff's deputies point handguns toward the house as the homeowner breaks out the picture window from inside with a rifle, glass shattering loudly as sirens sound outside, the homeowner argues with the officers, accidentally shoots into a wall, missing one of his young sons, drops his rifle after a man tells him that he cheated to get the man evicted, exits the house and is arrested and handcuffed after being forced to the ground.

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

It isn't an accident that Certain Women's closest brush with genre — when attorney Laura's (Laura Dern) enraged client, Fuller (Jared Harris), takes a night watchman hostage — is both the film's only portrait of male indignation, and the only vignette that's deflated in near - comic anticlimax as quickly as it reaches its apex.

As a last resort, he partners with a greedy co-worker to rob a casino and the two hijack a bus full of hostages and things go awry.»

Split stars James McAvoy as Kevin, a man with 24 different personalities who kidnaps a group of women and holds them hostage in a windowless room.

And then the film gets downright brutal when Mature, taken hostage along with an Amish family (with Ernest Borgnine as the moral patriarch), takes a stand against the robbers, who have already left a couple of victims in their wake.

The film follows Bello, as a single mother, who is taken hostage along with her child by a relentless bank robber.

You play as a type of robotic cop (hmmm...) who is tasked with ensuring society's safety and used to assassinate violent targets and defuse hostage situations.

This reasonably solid B movie, one in the continuum of bizarre Harrison Ford vehicles that combine high - stakes action with household horror, stars Ford as a man whose family is being held hostage by a homicidal crook (Paul Bettany), who needs Ford's help to rob a bank.

The scene is intercut with a news item of Iranian militants making an announcement as it relates to the hostages and their demands.

This sets in motion a chase with Will escaping custody, taking Weis's daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) as a hostage, and Timekeeper Leon (Cillian Murphy) hot on his trail.

After a brief year on the hostage negotiation series «Standoff» (which was cancelled quickly, but had the benefit of introducing DeWitt to co-star Ron Livingston, who she later married), DeWitt impressed with a recurring role as Don Draper's mistress on the first season of «Mad Men.»

Arnold Schwarzenegger (Commando, The Terminator) stars as Dutch Schaeffer, who, along with his crew of elite special ops commandos, is sent to the jungle of a hostile Latin American country on a covert rescue mission to save the bacons of a previous military crew rumored to be held hostage there.

A hostage situation ensues as the frightened but armed Jimmy locks himself into a diner's storeroom with a worker as well as a mother and baby who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

From here on out, the film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.

George (Ryan Reynolds) and his hot wife Kathy (Melissa George, still coasting, as far as I'm concerned, on her cameo in Dark City) buy a house beyond their means with Kathy's three kids from a previous marriage: Chelsea, Billy (Jesse James, excellent), and little Michael (Jimmy Bennett, already emotionally brutalized once this year in another home - invasion picture, Hostage).

From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series picks up the thread from the 1996 original film, following the Gecko brothers, Richie and Seth, as they evade law enforcement and battle vampires with a family of hostages in tow.

In short order they are run off the highway by some cartoon banditos led by John Goodman, and Doug (poor Justin Bartha, who in the course of these films has spent more screentime with a bag on his head than anyone since John Hurt in The Elephant Man) is taken hostage until such time as the guys can locate the whereabouts of... wait for it... yes, Lesley Chow (Ken Jeong)-- who has made off with a goodly pile of Goodman's loot.

Arriving an hour late, Falk and company burst onto the scene with excuses and apologies, and somehow, Falk has taken the dinner hostage and begins telling a tale of his time in the Amazon, watching helplessly as Tse Tse flies the size of dogs would snatch up «little brown children in their beaks and fly away.»

And soon after, he'll turn up in Ben Affleck «s based - in - fact drama «Argo,» as Iranian Consul Officer Joe Stafford, one of the hostages that Affleck's CIA team is tasked with rescuing.

Watch as the original Horrible Bosses gang have a lot of fun with their cell block reunion, where they all might wind up after they decide to take the businessman's son hostage, holding him for ransom.

When a pet chameleon (Johnny Depp) accidentally freed from his aquarium winds up in a rough, parched Mojave Desert town and decides to recreate himself as a gun - slinging hero named Rango, there are no surprises in store: Everyone around him is exactly what they appear to be, from the scheming mayor with Ned Beatty's gravelly voice to the tough - but - sensitive rancher's daughter (Isla Fisher) with no purpose except to play love interest and hostage.

The film follows the obese title character (Sam Coleman) through an upbringing supervised by his abusive mother (Lili Taylor) and his eventual escape from a mental hospital with three other inmates, who become his hostages as a deranged sheriff (Stephen Dorff) pursues them to the bloody end.

Affleck also stars in this exciting and tense, white knuckle political thriller as a CIA exfiltration expert who comes up with the best «bad idea» right out of Hollywood (no kidding) to rescue 6 Americans who found refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis in which 52 Americans were held captive.

This, in turn, becomes a hostage situation as they're locked in a green room, and with the help of insider Amber (Imogen Poots), they try and protect themselves against a group of white supremacists, led by a man named Darcy (Patrick Stewart), who want to kill them to wipe away any witnesses to their crime.

It's also worth nothing that she's the one female character, with the possible exception of Soledad O'Brien playing herself, who isn't used in the film as a pawn or hostage, which is about all we get from Amy Adams «Lois Lane (who's apparently as addicted to stilettos as Bryce Dallas Howard in «Jurassic World»), Diane Lane «s Martha Kent or Holly Hunter «s all - too - brief turn as a Kentucky senator who squares off against Luthor.

Let's actually take a look at his first experience working with him in the excellent crime / hostage thriller The Negotiator, where Paul takes on the role of a sniveling man caught up in the crisis as one of the hostages.

Dealing with a Somali translator named Omar (Asgar), who claims that his life is also on the line should the negotiations turn sour, the back - and - forth makes things tense on both sides of the phone, as one false move could spell the end of a hostage's life.

Next Mother's Day, Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.

Believing they had killed his daughter after they took her hostage for leverage added a bit more to his character, such as his line in the previous episode about how «people are monsters only when Americans are killed» and his scene with Miranda Otto was well acted.