Sentences with phrase «hostage because»

«It was as though she had us held hostage because she gave us half a show,» he joked.

Why should you be prevented from rescuing a hostage because you've lost track of the very last enemy that must be defeated before you can proceed?

He said, «Honestly, I don't think it is right for one person to hold the lives of about 180 million Nigerians hostage because of his poor health.

For anything to be held hostage because of this lawsuit or anything else would be detrimental.»

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.

Not exact matches

If you find yourself unable to make necessary moves because you are constrained by an employee or employees, you're in an organizational hostage situation.

While the failing department manager was tanking morale and, even more noticeable, putting out defective product, the senior leader was being held hostage, forced to tolerate bad behavior and poor performance because there was no potential successor in place.

By the end of my graduate work, I dearly loved the man, sort of in a Stockholm Syndrome way (where hostages empathize with their captors) but also because despite his vibrant cynicism, he was such an incredibly encouraging person who had clearly learned something from his time in church, or perhaps in spite of it, if his memoir is to be considered.

Then they held the country hostage to keep their wealthy tax cuts because they create jobs.

I certainly feel compassion for the family, for James, and for the other hostages now in harms way because this liberal president can't keep his mouth shut.

Harry remains under water because he does not trust that the school will ensure the safety of these «hostages.»

HBO is having the same problem getting their production of the events on HBO Go because TR and others are holding their rights hostage.

I would never commit myself to such a bold statement, because it will leave you a hostage to fortune, the subject of much mickey taking if your predictions are wrong, but quietly forgotten in the euphoria if you are proven right!

Nurses, lactation consultants, and doctors weighed in on my nursing technique, because I basically held anyone who came near me hostage until they took a closer look at my son's latch.

Because how can it be that so many parents are also held hostage by their toddlers manias (of eating only butter, or walking only on one side of the staircase or you name it)?

«It's something we want to look at because obviously we want to make sure our men and women who are serving abroad are safe and are not being targeted as perhaps future hostages,» said Senator Kirsten Gillbrand, D - NY.

This is because, by being in such a rush to cosy up to him, May made herself a hostage to fortune, tying her own political prospects to a president who is unconventional at best, and unhinged at worst.

At present, the most democratic constitution bill ever drafted is being held hostage by self - serving politicians in the clearest possible demonstration of a fundamental principle of constitution - making — namely, that politicians should neither be tasked with drafting nor ratifying constitutions because of the risk that they will act against the public interest.

«I thank God that the incident has not spoilt my birthday which is today, because there is no way I could have been happy on a day like this while the victims are still held hostage,» he said.

Ripp's Friday email said he would «hold my financial disclosure hostage» because of what he said were «double standards» and the town's failure to provide him with «certified» copies of financial disclosure forms of Republican candidates and a town employee requested under the state Freedom of Information Law.

«The idea that every one of these people were apparently equipped with a suicide vest reinforces the idea that if they take hostages, you have to go in because they're going to kill them,» NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton said on ABC's Eyewitness News.

Because Republicans have refused to pass the Women's Equality Act in its entirety, instead approving the other nine plans individually, Democrats have accused them of holding the act hostage and being opposed to everything from pay equity to cracking down on domestic violence and sex trafficking.

A struggling Bronx woman's dream of becoming a lawyer has been held hostage for three years because a former employer she is suing for sexual harassment has challenged her truthfulness...

But worse than that were the interventions from Harriet Harman and Owen Smith; which left you shouting «noooooo» at BBC News, because they left such a clear hostage to fortune in implying that «Falkirk was a one - off».

Because the answer and the reach of the ERG leaves the Prime Minister looking like a Brexit hostage.

«Would you hold those people hostage to a low energy use and low carbon because you don't want them to have any more carbon emissions?»

It did not have to hold me hostage, because I was afraid of all that could happen instead of what actually did.

This pattern of daily eating should be easy and relatively effortless for an OFM athlete because they are not being held hostage by food (carb) cravings.

The next time you're separated from your someone because you're being held hostage by that dreaded convention, why not set up a Cyber Date?

I say they try to make her «likable» because one scene sees her explaining, to Franco's character, that she's as much of a hostage as they are.

It's little surprise that 7 Days in Entebbe, a dramatization of the 1976 plane hijacking and subsequent hostage situation at an airport in Uganda, ultimately finds a tone of sorrow for the seemingly unending Israel - Palestine conflict, because that's an easy political note to strike.

If all three of the mentioned scenarios fail, it might be because the voters went with the based - on - a-real-story Hollywood-esque hostage drama Argo, a slight chance but not completely improbable.

Thrown into the mix are a kickass security officer (Jade Eshete), two local cops (Richard Schiff, Neil Brown Jr.), three bald, tattooed guys (possibly from outer space) named Ed, Fred and Zed, and a (literally) bulletproof psycho assassin (Fiona Dourif) who appreciates good conversation — because, she tells her hostage Ken (Mpho Koaho), she usually hears «mostly screaming and begging.»

Marty feels above Billy's criminal ways, but when Hans and Billy take the wrong dog hostage, any sense of superiority evaporates because the man who owns the dog (Woody Harrelson) is a vicious gangster, and he'll stop at nothing to be reunited with his shih tzu, no matter how many must die.

It becomes clear that Carl has more in plan than just torturing and killing Abby because she sees that he is holding two other girls hostage trying to impregnate them both.

When «Argo» turns serious, it starts to drag, in large part because the subjects of the operation (fully aware of the 52 other Americans that didn't escape the embassy and remained in a perilous hostage situation) lack the depth of the cunning Mendez, the focus of our sympathies when he encounters hesitations from the Americans to play along.

It's hard not to feel bad for the actors (mainly Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan) who signed up for this dumpster fire, because they look about as excited as a hostage being held at gunpoint.

Perhaps that's because the hero is an unscrupulous valet (Robert Sheehan) who plans to rob a Maserati owner (David Tennant), except that after he breaks into the home, he discovers that a woman (Kerry Condon) is being held hostage, leading to a cat - and - mouse showdown.

«The rank - and - file teachers that have liberal Democratic views are not going to vote for this Republican because the leadership of the teachers union wants to hold Steve Sweeney hostage.»

An elite security force arrived and stormed the building at 00:20 because they believed the hostages were being killed.

In an embarrassing incident, Amazon blocked Macmillan from their site for a day during a dispute over Kindle terms — and had to bow because they couldn't hold their customers hostage.

Because, today's publishing can hold your book hostage in perpetuity due to the print on demand model.

In short, because she was publishing some completely different work (different genre) on her own, the Big 6 publisher is apparently cancelling her contract, demanding the return on advance, and holding the rights to her novel hostage in the mean time.

Because most middle - class commuters can't decrease their gas consumption out of necessity, they are being held hostage by the cost of gas.

You can ziptie people to act as hostages and even move them around the level, which forces any cops to go after them first, although you do have to be careful because civilian deaths incur a cleanup cost.

All this does is to create a frustration factor as you fail levels simply because the game prevents you from moving forward to grab the hostage.

Be prepared to feel like the kidnapper in a hostage negotiation, holding the art ransom, because you don't want to hand it over without first getting the duffle bag filled with cash and an escape helicopter with enough fuel to get across the border.

Canada says that developing nations will not walk away from the talks because they have too much to lose — essentially saying that developed nations can hold support, such as technology transfer and adaptation financing, hostage while eroding the entire negotiating process.

In a recent issue of the Daily Caller, reporter Jonathan Strong asserts that EPA's global warming regulations are «no end - run around Congress,» because «This time Congress is being held hostage by its own laws.»

Stanger added that when you know your data is backed up, you're less likely to feel pressured to pay a ransom because you already have what the cybercriminal is holding hostage.