Sentences with phrase «child hostage»

So far we know of Kara, a domestic android who's faced with domestic abuse of a child (it's not for the faint - hearted), and Connor, a crisis negotiator who's trying to save an android from jumping off a roof with their child hostage.

The gruesome parts of the stories — the Big Bad Wolf swallowing Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother whole or the witch holding the two children hostage — no longer happen.

«In other words, he is holding children hostage to the demands of his Wall Street donors and his personal political motivations, while kids go to school in overcrowded classrooms without arts, sports, or counselors.

They will not hold our children hostage to corporate America.

It's not long before things start to look awry, and soon four intruders, led by the reasoning, unruffled Eddie (Billy Burke), have taken the children hostage and locked Shaun outside.

The action thriller has some serious Panic Room vibes and stars Union as a woman visiting her recently decreased father's secluded, hyper - secure estate when burglars arrive, locking her out and taking her children hostage in demand of whatever her father had locked up inside.

They're suddenly sent to a mysterious floating island where a HAL - like computer holds children hostage in little power cels.

Brief Notes presents short reports of ongoing research into such areas as child hostages, the child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, violence in teen dating relationships, sexually abused adolescent females living in a group home setting, and childhood sexual abuse among clinicians working with sex offenders

Not exact matches

always nice to see that children will always have help given to them held hostage by proselytizing Christians.

When ISIS snipers shot at women and children as they tried to flee Fallujah, after holding the city hostage, those fleeing were Sunni Muslims.

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.

Thus laws that supposedly give more money and greater choice in child care to mothers and their children will in fact hold them hostage to the enforced restriction of both.

Over a century ago in England Samuel Wilberforce was so discouraged that for a time he avoided marriage, not wanting to beget children, «hostages to fortune,» he said, in so ill a world.

There may be one or two tables with parents who understand what it's like to have a screaming toddler holding you hostage at a restaurant, but the rest of the tables will be staring you down in an effort to get you to do something about your child's behavior.

I feel held hostage (as I don't want her to get sick, wake my neighbors or my other child who is 2 yrs).

Holding a children's hospital's funding hostage while waiting for a bribe?

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.

He said «we working day and night in cooperation with international partners to release the remaining girls and other hostages — men, women and children.

«I am not holding my children's future and education hostage to a game of political football.

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.

KINGSTON, N.Y. >> School district Superintendent Paul Padalino says his decision to issue a shelter - in - place for students during a tornado warning Tuesday was correct despite complaints from some parents of students that their children were being held hostage at the end of the school day.

According to him, the hostages were mainly women, children and young men who were forced to become Boko Haram fighters.

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.

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.

«On 23rd February 2016, troops of 21 Brigade in conjunction with troops of MNJTF on clearance operations at Kumshe general area, rescued 250 and persons, mainly women and children held hostages by Boko Haram terrorists and brought back 800 refugees from Cameroon.

«It's not an expansion but to hold the other nine points hostage, to say that women can't have the other nine points unless they give up rights they have now, I think is unconscionable, it's not the world I want my children to grow up in.»

Unwitting children are often hostage

«Our children are being held hostage,» said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education.

According to the DCE, the military men had taken about 80 men hostage, while women and children have been camped in a church in the town.

There is an inherent hypocrisy in holding this procedure hostage at the expense of 1,000 children each year who are doomed to die a painful death.

In 1610 Francis Bacon wrote: «He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.»

Castle View Elementary School in Riverside, California, became the site of a hostage situation Tuesday afternoon; thankfully no children are Plainfield High School students published a dating magazine, now their teacher is in hot water.

Castle View Elementary School in Riverside, California, became the site of a hostage situation Tuesday afternoon; thankfully no children are

A deadline by which the hostages, including children, will be shot.

A man tells hostages that hijackers will kill 2 children every 24 hours and points out 2 children to start with (the children are frightened).

Julia Roberts narrates this account of the 2004 hostage crisis in the small Russian town of Beslan, where Chechen terrorists seized a school and killed over 330 innocent people, many of them children.

While Glover plays with the house's bells and whistles inside and Jasmine texts away in her bedroom, Shaun is confronted outside by an intruder (Mark Furze), but when she fends him off, she runs to the backyard door of the house to discover her children are being held hostage by three more burglars, Eddie (Billy Burke), Sam (Levi Meaden) and Duncan (Richard Cabral), who came to crack open a safe that holds $ 4 million.

That seems to be the novel pitch underlining James McTeigue's «Breaking In,» in which Gabrielle Union's maternal instincts turn her into an overnight John McClane when her children are taken hostage.

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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).

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

Luckily for him, he encounters a hostage situation at an Old West themed attraction, a baby that was born with a third leg, a hurricane approaching Texas during the state's tornado season and the cicada cycle (I wish I were kidding), and, when he asks for some real tragedy, the movie cuts to a group of deaf children approaching a carnival.

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.»

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.»

A child is held as a hostage.

After a mostly tangential opening scene featuring Josh Hartnett (Wicker Park), we are introduced to Detective John Hartigan (Bruce Willis, Hostage), a soon - to - be-retired cop out to crack the last case of his career, nailing the child - raping son of a senator, Junior (Stahl, Terminator 3).

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.

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.

Majority rule has the potential to shift the current acrimony to slightly different terrain while continuing to hold children and their families hostage to doctrinal zeal.