A
hostage is a person who is captured or held against their will by someone else. They are usually kept as a means to force others to meet certain demands or as a way to control a situation.
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Still, at least the starting line of your race track isn't
held hostage by pure luck.
You can't thrive in real estate if held
hostage by fear.
An organization can be taken
hostage in a number of different ways.
The most critical part of organizational
hostage situations is to never get there in the first place.
Would he be guilty «only» of the crime
of hostage taking or would he be guilty of murder as well?
About two years ago, an armed student threatened the school, holding students
hostage for more than an hour.
His arrest came after the arrest of the «Cuban Five» and he is being held
as hostage against their release.
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hostage negotiation advisers and security consultants.
My entire system is being held
hostage at this point.
Probably why it took me three months to even look at the photos being held
hostage on my SD card.
The book is now being held
hostage while she goes through an expensive lawsuit.
Rather than providing a comprehensive exploration of both Western and Iranian perspectives, what it does best is illuminate the extraordinary contributions of Canadian officials to the 1979
Iranian hostage crisis.
Once he is calm, you can discuss with him other options for solving a problem, rather than screaming, yelling and trying to hold
others hostage.
Some say it's crazy to hold the budget
hostage over this and lose out on those big ticket items.
We paid in full, arranged a tow truck, and they still tried to hold his car
hostage if he didn't sign!
A more appropriate analogy is this: Someone takes you and your infant
child hostage.
Perhaps you should smash a window here and then quietly take the guard
hostage when he comes to check the situation out.
Local media report that at least one person has been taken
hostage inside the building.
As a boy, he watched as his father, who had taken a
man hostage, was shot down by a sniper.
Unlike our competitors, we don't believe in holding your open
files hostage, and will always make those available to you once the project is complete.
The plan also created tension among some women's rights groups that didn't want other pieces of legislation to be held
hostage because of the abortion plank.
A man holding a
woman hostage implies she should provide sexual favors (she doesn't).
I explained this, but I was told that I still have to pay the loan or my transcripts would be held
hostage so that I could never go back to college anywhere.
That'd be great, but from a business perspective, they can simply make more by charging everyone $ 60, and holding online
play hostage.
Nobody holds all the information about every user, nobody can hold the
system hostage.
The method: hold
passengers hostage in full view of TV cameras and negotiate with political authorities while the world watches.
I say surrender charges are a way for insurance companies to hold retirement
plans hostage.
I don't understand how one man can be so selfish by holding a
club hostage like this.
I think my husband might have to hold my credit cards
hostage right now.
I checked again, it is quite clear that my plan holds my
money hostage until I leave the company.
No doubt this is why he has been such an effective agent of reconciliation and an honest broker in
many hostage negotiations.
In another, the two must find a way to take an elderly
couple hostage while breaking into their country home.
But many inexperienced investors would rather hold the
company hostage than accept the new realities.
It's tough to set the tone for compromise when you say you either do this or we're going to hold the
budget hostage.
She believes families deserve to eat a variety of real foods without holding
parents hostage to the kitchen.
The editing is good here, especially a grainy home video of the
young hostage as a baby opening the movie.
There are many great
hostage films throughout the history of cinema.
• Company must issue new shares to grow, which holds it
somewhat hostage to market price fluctuations.