Sentences with phrase «couple hostage»

In essence, the Department of Education holds the couple hostage and effectively will not allow one spouse to accept individual responsibility for the FFEL spousal consolidation loan so they can be in control of the debt.

Synopsis: A ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere.

Divorce disempowers, holds couples hostage, steals, haunts, and overstays its welcome.

Not exact matches

From Bruce, who missed finishing school: «Ain't the first time I'll be tied to a chair and held hostage by a group of humorless a — holes for a couple hours.»

So far so good, I've been enjoying Yes please, learned a couple of new words, mostly idioms I haven't heard before like «hostage to fortune».

He hires a mystery game party company to come in and take him hostage, which forces the other couples to spend the evening trying to sort out the location of where he's being held.

Williams next signed for a pivotal supporting role in the crime comedy First Sunday (2008), about a couple of criminals who take hostage a bunch of church members.

Brian snorts a couple lines of his hostage's ice, they read passages from Rick Warren's mega-bestseller The Purpose Driven Life, and the single mother, ever resourceful, softens the killer up by cooking him a stack of pancakes.

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.

Next fall brings his Tom Hanks - starring hostage drama «Captain Phillips» to the big screen, and just a couple of weeks ago it was reported that his Martin Luther King Jr. film is back on, with the wheels turning to make it his next effort.

Before he went a bit silly, John Milius did direct a couple of fine films - the taut crime drama Dillinger, and then the sweeping historical adventure The Wind and the Lion, which tells the story of President Roosevelt (the first) sending in troops to rescue an American family taken hostage by a Moroccan chieftain played by Sean Connery.

Stray Bullets (Unrated) Crime caper, set in upstate New York, about a couple of teenage siblings» (Jack Fessenden and Asa Spurlock) taken hostage by three fugitives from justice (Larry Fessenden, James Le Gros and John Speredakos) hiding out in their family's abandoned mobile.

Beneath the shock horror elements, torture porn mentality and horror movie clichés, Funny Games, a film about a couple and their young son held hostage by two sadistic and deceptively passive young men, is a dramatic rendition on the bloodthirsty, violence obsessed film audience.

If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Unrated) Coming - of - age drama about a juvenile delinquent (George Pistereanu) just a couple weeks from being paroled after serving four years in a youth correctional facility who, against his better judgment, impulsively decides to hold hostage the cute social worker (Ada Condeescu) he has a crush on.

A teenaged girl with a taste for violence holds a burglar hostage in her house on New Year's Eve; a middle aged couple examines the intricacies of their marriage as they prepare to throw a party; and a real estate mogul in the throes of grief buys up all the property on an island only to be accused of madness by his daughters.

When her husband suddenly required a costly surgery, the couple moved back in with Lockwood's parents in Kansas City, secular hostages in a Catholic rectory.

by John Gilstrap A couple of weeks ago, I posted our marketing strategy for Hostage Zero which included a limited time free giveaway of the ebook version of No Mercy in all e-formats.

In what more than a few think looks like a hostage video, the couple talks about the importance of Australia's strict biosecurity laws — aimed at preserving the islands diverse plant and animal life.

U.S. policy is a similar stance as that of the UK, which was recently criticized by a British couple who felt their Foreign Office could have done more to advise their family after their own kidnapping by Somali pirates and their subsequent 388 - day hostage ordeal.

Mark Goulston, M.D. is the author of The 6 Secrets of a Lasting Relationship: How to Fall in Love Again and Stay There, works with high - powered couples, and is a former FBI hostage - negotiation trainer.