Sentences with phrase «as hostages of»

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.

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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.

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.

Before, during, and after the trial, Shkreli has cultivated a reputation as America's most hated man, increasing the price of a life - saving drug by 5,000 %, holding an anticipated Wu - Tang album hostage, harassing women on Twitter, and for his smug court appearances.

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.

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.

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.

To me it is a sickening abomination of God's will that the most advanced nation on the face of the earth has to be held hostage to these willfully ignorant, dark - age dwelling crackpots, who turn concepts such as Capitalism into false religious idols which they expect people to worship mindlessly.

Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»

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.

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.»

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.

I used to be a repub till congress was taken over by the tea party and Romney as our candidate.I can not support a man who is a draft dodger and a tax evader.The repub congress has done nothing for vets, nothing for the middleclass.All of the good repubs have gone or have been forced out by the extremists that care nothing for the average joe or veterans like myself.Until we get real candidates that care for the middleclass and vets I will not vote for the repubs.Honor and respect, and caring for this nation is what the repubs used to stand for, now we have wackjobs from the tea party holding america hostage and thats as un patriotic as it gets, it is hurting many americans, our economy and soldiers who are looking for work.

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.

And as long as we allow ourselves to be held hostage by some warped sense of oversignificance, Al Quaeda will continue to victimize us every single day.

I do not know any moral theologian who denies the Pope's teaching, although it might be possible to imagine some moral dilemmas; for example, if one were ordered to kill an innocent hostage as the price of saving an entire city from destruction.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, the 28 - year - old also had a message for club legend Thierry Henry, who insisted that Ozil and Sanchez were holding the club «hostage» over their reported wage demands of over # 200,000 - a-week, as noted by ESPN FC.

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.

I'm tired of this hostage situation we've been put under by Sanchez, this inner kid thing happened to RVP as well, if he wants to go let him, to any side he wants, if it's a prem side nothing less than 80 mil will get us talking, reinvest that cash on Mbappe and Lemar, and see if we don't mount a title challenge next season.

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.

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 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 region.

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.

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.

One politician will not view or hear the Queen's speech at the opening of parliament as they will be held hostage by her majesty

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.

County Executive Edward Mangano hailed the «state - of - the art» project, which will also serve as a regional training hub for the county's 17 village and two city departments, house Nassau's police intelligence unit and eventually include a streetscape village to allow for simulation of drug raids and hostage barricade situations.

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

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

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.

Despite accepting responsibility for the week - long controversy, Mr Browne showed no signs of resigning over the matter and instead launched a full investigation into the hostage crisis, as well as confirming a small team will examine the media decisions.

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.

He also accused the Democrats «of holding our military hostage» over their demand that a short - term spending bill include protection for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children.

And as if that is not enough, we were served the salacious tales of how some unnamed Governors once «kidnapped» Vice President, held him hostage and demanded that he resigned to pave the way for Senate President, Bukola Saraki to take over as President.

But so long as Shelly Silver remains speaker of the Assembly, Cuomo's governorship will be held hostage by Shelly's corruption.

Mama Peace, as she» s fondly called noted thay the Federal Government was working to ensure their safe release of the girls who have been held hostage over 181 days.

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 terrorists.

And if Canada could do that, what hope is there for the coastal fisheries of Europe, hostage to politics as well as science?

It holds us hostage in a perpetual cycle of hope and disappointment as we desperately guess about what will work now, later or ever.

I've been wanting a yellow petticoat for ages, and as the majority of mine are still being held hostage by customs, receiving this was like my birthday and Mardi Gras and Christmas morning all rolled into one.

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Hogwarts is now in the malevolent hands of the sinister Severus Snape (hissing, sniveling Alan Rickman), who is holding students and staff hostage as they wait for Harry to rescue them.

Vivian Fontaine (Ashley Bell), an innocent bystander they've taken as a hostage, is in the trunk of their car.