Sentences with phrase «as hostages in»

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.

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.

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.

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).

Not exact matches

Kim was feeling anxiety as a result of the 2016 robbery in Paris in which she was kept hostage while her assailants stole her engagement ring from husband Kanye West, and other jewels totaling $ 9.5 million.

In part two, Carter talks about the Iran hostage crisis he faced during his time as president and how he could have been re-elected easily if he had been able to rescue the hostages.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued stark warnings to health care organizations over the threats of phishing emails and malware such as ransomware, which take data hostage in exchange for recompense.

The attack comes just days after a separate incident involving union workers at a soon - to - be shuttered Goodyear plant in the French town of Amiens, who held two executives hostage as they sought to negotiate bonus and severance packages.

As someone in their mid-50's, I am old enough to remember the start of oil - price gouging and the beginning of OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) holding our energy consumption hostage by controlling the supply of crude and keeping prices high.

To make matters worse, Erdogan has now all but admitted that he is holding Americans hostage in Turkey as bargaining chips for the extradition of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish spiritual leader living in self - imposed exile in the U.S.

Is this remarkable episode, variously described by some observers as a Tea Party «hostage - taking» or even «suicide bombing,» going to end in the unthinkable?

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.

This training will include learning how to react in terrifying scenarios, such as being held hostage.

Shervin Pishevar wants to buy out Benchmark, describing the lawsuit as «holding the company hostage» in a leaked letter.

Investigators have tracked the provenance of the grenade and say it came from the same batch as those used by the Hague hostage - takers and had been stolen from a US army base in 1972.

Taking hostage a man who is regarded in many quarters as a hero is unlikely to curry favor in other European capitals or bolster the Spanish government's already tarnished image in the international press.

So if hostage negotiators have no fear of No, and actually embrace it as a means to get to Yes, one can only wonder how effective it might be in the worlds of sales and business.

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.

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.&raquIn 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.&raquin the detainment of any innocent American citizen should face international consequences, and the actions against Pastor Brunson, in particular, qualify as hostage - taking.&raquin particular, qualify as hostage - taking.»

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

It can also leave us hostages to fortune as new discoveries reveal amazing abilities in higher animals.

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.

During the «Iranian hostage crisis» (note that even the headline is like a television series, drawing on emotionally charged words) there were nightly special broadcasts, each of them bearing the portentous title «Day One, Day Two... Day Fifty - Seven,» as if we were marking the passage of one of the most significant events in history.

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The guy once known as Spooky was still in prison, but still holding the name Alex Ramos hostage.

After that six weeks in Sanford, McLain spent short stretches at two other jails before he wound up in what he regards as the very bottom of the belly of the beast, the United States Penitentiary in Atlanta, the federal prison that two months after his release would become a site of rioting, destruction and hostage - taking by Cuban - born inmates.

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 hostageIn 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 hostagein 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.

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

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.

Her doctoral thesis entitled «United States Presidential Decision - Making and the Use of Force during Crises in the Middle East and North Africa: 1979 - 2009» examined the American use of force in the Middle East and North Africa, utilising the Iran Hostage Crisis (1979), the Bombing of Libya (1986), the Gulf War (1991), and the Iraq War (2003) as case studies.

In the midst of alarm and exasperation across European capitals concerning the security situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-- from the still unstable Libya to the worsening Syrian crisis, and from the Mali insurgency to the Algerian hostage crisis — Cameron's proposal should not be seen simply as domestic demagoguerIn the midst of alarm and exasperation across European capitals concerning the security situation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-- from the still unstable Libya to the worsening Syrian crisis, and from the Mali insurgency to the Algerian hostage crisis — Cameron's proposal should not be seen simply as domestic demagoguerin the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)-- from the still unstable Libya to the worsening Syrian crisis, and from the Mali insurgency to the Algerian hostage crisis — Cameron's proposal should not be seen simply as domestic demagoguery.

Speaking in the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas plant, Cameron cautioned his listeners to recognize the links between events in Algeria and Mali as proof of a growing threat posed by al - Qaeda's spread across the regioin the wake of the Algerian hostage crisis at the In Amenas gas plant, Cameron cautioned his listeners to recognize the links between events in Algeria and Mali as proof of a growing threat posed by al - Qaeda's spread across the regioIn Amenas gas plant, Cameron cautioned his listeners to recognize the links between events in Algeria and Mali as proof of a growing threat posed by al - Qaeda's spread across the regioin Algeria and Mali as proof of a growing threat posed by al - Qaeda's spread across the region.

And that means this funding can not be held hostage to the same delays and dynamics as in previous years.»

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.

The military, though allegedly suffered casualties as two of its men were killed in the operation, several hostages including men, women, children were rescued by the soldiers in the raid.

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.

The search for the abducted Chibok school girls and the rescue of other Nigerians in hostage has never relapse as could be attested to in recent times where hundreds of women and children were rescued by the military through its coordinated operations.

Since his election as Conservative leader in 2005 he has been held hostage by the eurosceptic wing of his party.

Gayle Sweeney is a hostage — kept on a limited diet, rarely allowed to change clothes or even leave her walk - in - closet jail except for press events or fund - raisers where she's posited as the perfect political wife, forced to wave and smile like a child - rearing, cookie - baking seal.

The holdup artist was a large black man, his hostage a young white woman, and as an angry South Boston crowd moved in on him, he retreated to a bridge that put him in plain view of scores of gawkers.

Insurgency: Army Kills 5 Terrorists rescues 36 hostages in ambush attack at Gare; as 1,304 Livestock are recovered, 15 Cattle Rustlers arrested in North West.

In the leadership campaign, he posed as a principled Eurosceptic and offered the hostage to fortune that his EPP discomfort turned out to be.

As we heard from Philip Hammond earlier, the hostage situation in Algeria now appears to be over.

Hence Alan Johnson, the Home Secretary, read like a hostage from a script drafted by Andy Coulson, just as conference opened, saying: «I haven't got that real aching desire to lead, which really is an essential quality in a leader.»

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

The state hadn't brought in an on - time spending plan since 1983 — as then - Speaker Sheldon Silver held everyone hostage for weeks upon weeks so he could deliver the maximum for his special - interest patrons.

He also described international figures backing the Remain campaign as appearing in «Downing Street hostage videos».

In addition, Arkin says that the laser weapons are being placed in the hands of the Pentagon's special operations forces, which conduct unconventional missions such as rescuing hostages and intercepting terroristIn addition, Arkin says that the laser weapons are being placed in the hands of the Pentagon's special operations forces, which conduct unconventional missions such as rescuing hostages and intercepting terroristin the hands of the Pentagon's special operations forces, which conduct unconventional missions such as rescuing hostages and intercepting terrorists.

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.

An underground organization holds employees hostage by repeatedly erasing their memories; it hires them out on assignments as lovers, killers, and everything in between.