Sentences with phrase «held by a prisoner»

It is held by a prisoner in the village of Tedanki.

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Danny had been held prisoner by the Tsarnaevs for nearly an hour and a half.

Guantanamo has been criticized by human rights groups, with some of its prisoners held for a decade or longer without being charged or given a trial.

He'd been inspired by the story of Iqbal, a Pakistani child labourer who escaped a carpet factory where he'd been held prisoner and then gained worldwide attention by speaking out for children's rights.

I thank God that today we have the ability to research the origins and development of language, and do not have to be held prisoner by aberrations and perversions of words that convey distortions of truth.

But today neither human beings nor human capital (ideas, skills, know - how, sound moral habits, etc.) are held prisoner by borders.

Isa 42:5 Thus says God the LORD, Who created the heavens and stretched them out, Who spread out the earth and its offspring, Who gives breath to the people on it And spirit to those who walk in it, Isa 42:6 «I am the LORD, I have called You in righteousness, I will also hold You by the hand and watch over You, And I will appoint You as a covenant to the people, As a light to the nations, Isa 42:7 To open blind eyes, To bring out prisoners from the dungeon And those who dwell in darkness from the prison.

Gilad was / is being held prisoner after being kidnapped by millitants at an outpost.

The Sopranos dares instead to explore the terrible banality of evil, depicting ordinary people held prisoner by their habits and appetites who choose hell instead of heaven over and over again, not with a satanic flourish but with an all - American sense of entitlement.

1962: GMA provides $ 12 million worth of food — contributed by members Gerber, Heinz, General Mills and others — as ransom for Bay of Pigs prisoners held in appalling conditions in Cuban jails.

The last time we saw Loras he was being held prisoner by the High Sparrow and looked very sickly.

The men's titles from 1943 - 45 were won by 6» 5 Yvon Petra, freshly released from a German prisoner of war camp where he had been held after being captured in battle while fighting in the French Army (Petra went on to win Wimbledon in 1946, becoming the last champ to take Centre Court in long trousers).

At the press conf it was more double talk and bull from Wenger today, the man who refuses to spend money is willing to lose any fee for Nasri by holding him prisoner for 12 months.

We are being held prisoners in our own homes and being tortured by our newborns!

As youth sports continue to go the way of travel teams and one - sport specialization, the college ranks are held prisoner by these new ways of thinking.

Surrounded by cold clinitians in masks, told what to do, held prisoner.

Comfort concludes that most British governments of the last 60 years have been held prisoner by events, and the frequent changes of government failed to instil any long - term stability in industrial policy.

Mr Cameron will meet with president Thein Sein, whose leadership he praised for allowing the release of political prisoners, the holding of by - elections and the legalisation of previously outlawed political parties, on the trip.

What mechanisms are provided by the US Constitution to handle a situation in which the president is kidnapped or held prisoner by a foreign power?

I have seen a cell, just four by six metres wide, holding 114 prisoners caught up in an Isis sweep who have been there for months without a single breath of fresh air.

BTW, if all those prisoners are suddenly shifted downstate, how much do you want to bet that a Senate seat which is currently held by an upstater will have to be turned into another seat for NYC.

The Narey reforms of 1999 reduced prisoner numbers by reducing the numbers held on remand, and there was greater use of additional prison places in the private sector.

The lord chief justice's comments will be welcomed by prison campaigners, who argue that it is impossible to rehabilitate prisoners properly when they are held in overcrowded prisoners.

«That this House notes the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in Hirst v the United Kingdom in which it held that there had been no substantive debate by members of the legislature on the continued justification for maintaining a general restriction on the right of prisoners to vote; acknowledges the treaty obligations of the UK; is of the opinion that legislative decisions of this nature should be a matter for democratically - elected lawmakers; and supports the current situation in which no prisoner is able to vote except those imprisoned for contempt, default or on remand.»

Bergdahl was captured by the Taliban and held prisoner for nearly five years, a terrible ordeal to be sure.

«In the spring, the prison guards allowed an attack by Iranian religious thugs who beat up many inmates in Omid's section, Ward 350, where political prisoners were held.»

Waking up in the underground (and long thought destroyed) District 13 with loyal soldier Gale, she discovers Peeta is held prisoner by President Snow — Donald Sutherland, grinning like an evil Cheshire Cat — who uses him as a puppet in a series of broadcasts that leave her again caught between a screen and a horde of angry disbelievers.

As Anna delves more deeply in these events and struggles to understand her family's possible role in them, she finds herself increasingly isolated by the rest of the family and ultimately held as their prisoner.

This drama about a young mother and her 5 - year - old son held prisoner by a sexual predator has been collecting audience prizes at just about every film festival it has played, including the bellwether People's Choice Award at Toronto.

Gael Garcia Bernal plays Maziar Bahari, the BBC journalist who was held as a prisoner by the Iranian government in 2009.

The titular captive is a girl named Cass (Alexia Fast) who is abducted and held prisoner for close to a decade by an uber - creepy rich guy (Kevin Durand).

Because the Entebbe airport had been built by an Israeli construction company, its architects were enlisted to help build an exact replica of the terminal where the prisoners were being held.

Description: When Colonel George Taylor (the fabulous Charlton Heston) crash lands his spacecraft on what seems to be an unfamiliar planet, he is captured and held prisoner by a dominant race of hyperrational, articulate apes.

He devised the story — about a Niagara Falls couple (Ryan Reynolds and Mireille Enos) whose young daughter is abducted and held prisoner for eight years by a foppish psychopath (Kevin Durand)-- and his screenplay, co-written with TV - movie vet David Fraser, employs his usual structural gamesmanship, leaping to and fro in time and withholding crucial details.

Zamperini, played by Jack O'Connell, was held in a prisoner of war camp by the Japanese navy for two years; prior to that he spent 47 days at sea in a raft, after a bomber he was flying in crash - landed in the Pacific.

They demanded 91 of their countrymen held prisoner in Iran by the Persian government be released.

Prisoners is directed well, apart from its length, by French - Canadian filmmaker Denis Villeneuve (Incendies, Maelstrom), from a sometimes nifty, sometimes turgid screenplay by Aaron Guzikowski (Contraband), which features narrative twists and turns to keep the audience guessing as to what might have happened to the two young girls, and also who holds the key to the answer of their whereabouts.

A Wrinkle in Time revolves around teenager Meg Murray, who teams up with her younger brother, her classmate and three astral travelers to save her father, who is being held prisoner on a distant planet by a universe - spanning evil.

But there is damage there too, as there would be if you and your mother were held prisoner in a windowless shed for half a decade by a kidnapping rapist.

Will finally finds Jack on an island, where he and his crew are held prisoners by the natives.

The Railway Man tells the true story of another prisoner of war held by the Japanese in WWII.

Soon everyone's problems are literally blown up when a deadly swarm of alien ships attacks the Enterprise during a routine dispatch, leaving the survivors stranded on a distant planet while others are held prisoner by the leader of the violent pack, a warlord named Krall (a fierce Idris Elba) who's searching for an artifact that is the missing puzzle piece he needs to finish building — what else?

«Man is an endangered species,» as an insanely large text card states, with most of the remaining humans being held prisoner and / or enslaved by giant, grotesque Psychlo.

Narakasura had held 16,000 women prisoners and Deepavali celebrates their freedom by Lord Krishna's actions.

It was originally run by the Shah's security and intelligence unit and was designed to hold 320 prisoners (20 in solitary and 300 in general); but was later expanded to house over 1500, including over 100 solitary cells for political prisoners.

Concurrently, Aurélie du Bessancourt, the aristocrat's eldest daughter, tells her own story from 1789 — one of her family scrambling to enter the Palais, being held prisoner by her father and uncle, and her own attempt to escape.

Judy travels to the home of Myrta Mattis where she discovers that Frederica is held a prisoner by Myrta's relatives, who appear to be attempting to poison Myrta.

Soulless Alone Sienna Nealon was a 17 year - old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years.

Sienna Nealon was a 17 year - old girl who had been held prisoner in her own house by her mother for twelve years.

ECMC appears to want to hold Conniff as a hostage or prisoner to her situation and forgo the Constitutional fresh start afford to her by law.