Sentences with phrase «essentially kidnapped»

Two months before my visit, the local police had essentially kidnapped the underground bishop, Peter Shao Zhumin, taking him to Sichuan Province, where Catholic leaders had bent to Beijing's control.

That seems to leave only extraordinary rendition — essentially kidnapping the wanted person and then using covert means to spirit him out of the United States.

Not exact matches

The Diet at Worms was essentially a call for Luther to recant, and his defiant refusal based on scriptural authority evoked a papal excommunication followed by a staged kidnapping by his friends to place him in protective custody at Wartburg Castle.

But Kate is essentially committing kidnapping and, later, when wife and husband get conjugal, rape.

Essentially, it's a retread of Poltergeist, about a haunted house that more or less «kidnaps» a child, but it has its own unique spin.

To be fair, the first half is actually very engaging and interesting, as the terrier Max (voiced with deadpan humor and line delivery by Louis C.K.) and his new humongous furry mutt roommate (played by Eric Stonestreet) escape animal control (following being kidnapped for accidentally straying away from their dog walker), come across what is essentially a mob of unwanted animals led by a rabbit (voiced by Kevin Hart, and as you can probably assume, his performance is energetic and most definitely fits animation).

It's worth noting that Jack, whose only job that we're aware of was as a fiction editor, has essentially become a super-criminal, capable of penetrating extensive security to attack Christian's corporate office and very nearly kidnap his wife.

(Maria Bello co-stars as Keller's wife, Grace, who essentially stays drugged up in bed all day after the kidnapping to block out the reality of the family's horrible fate.)

Essentially, this is to cut down on parents kidnapping their children from other parents and setting up house in another country.