Sentences with phrase «hostage by»

The campaign urges home sellers to consider PropertyGuys.com instead of being held hostage by agents and their hefty fees.

You can't thrive in real estate if held hostage by fear.

Whenever we hide something people want it more and I've learned that information and access to MLS alone are not what sells homes and it's not what the majority of consumers want... they want great service, they want someone to translate the information and provide them with guidance, they want to be charged a fair price and they don't want to be held hostage by our desire to stay the same.

Held hostage by high overhead costs, brokerages were reining in their associates» flexibility to take steps to win clients.

If your life is being held hostage by an addiction, than it is time to regain control.

However, you should never feel held hostage by your therapist or the therapy process.

But I'm worried because Republican leaders in Congress have held these centers hostage by halting federal funding while they focus on passing tax cuts for the wealthy.

The child has been held as a psychological hostage by a narcissistic / (borderline) parent (see «The Hostage Metaphor» article on my website; http://www.cachildress.org), and in that context the child has had to completely surrender psychologically to the psychopathology of the narcissistic / (borderline) parent in order to survive.

Triggered by schemas and modes in the treatment room, therapists can become distracted — preoccupied with vulnerability, emotional safety, or incompetence; held hostage by our own once - upon - a-time early experiences, thus hindering the empathically attuned stance of the adaptive caregiving mode.

It's the very fact that both emotion and reasoning ability are held hostage by their body's continuing physical reaction to trauma that makes healing so hard for trauma survivors, no matter how much cognitive «insight» they have into their suffering.

Relationships and friendships with a person with this disorder are highly volatile, may end quickly, or be held hostage by unstable behavior.

Counseling with me will help you to relieve past impactful memories so that you are no longer held hostage by them and so you can truly enjoy your life.»

It made me realize that a lot of people are being held hostage by age discrimination.

How to choose and change careers Let's face it, most career choices are not choices at all, but people held hostage by paychecks.

In an episode of the seminal 1980s TV show Hill Street Blues, Detective Buntz (a pre — NYPD Blue Dennis Franz) and a fellow detective, Rodriguez, are taken hostage by a sadistic serial killer.

The hero and his party enter the cave in order to rescue Tanaya who has been taken hostage by Robbin «Ood and his gang.

The crypto market has been held hostage by the big exchanges and whales that have been able to move the market to their advantage, wrecking havoc on the average investor's portfolio.

As reports emerge, today's attack paints a picture of businesses and governments around the world held hostage by a second major wave of ransomware, a kind of software that hijacks computerized systems and demands payment, often in bitcoin, to unlock them.

American businesses of all sizes and from all industry sectors are being held hostage by frivolous lawsuits and overly broad claims made by patent trolls.

To date, we have borne the economic costs and burdens of a patent system increasingly held hostage by trolls that do not seek to build up the American economy, but rather tear it down, one demand letter and exorbitant licensing fee at a time.

American businesses and consumers deserve better than to be held hostage by threats and shakedowns from patent trolls.

«Subscriptions are not held hostage by one dominant player or the advertising market.

In either case, imagine if we were held hostage by anything that followed, «But you said...» Those who get confused by words and those who manipulate would put us out of business in six months.

Trevor has also represented four out of seven of the UK nationals killed after being taken hostage by Al Qaeda at the In Amenas gas plant in Algeria at the beginning of 2013.

We need to master our tech, not be held hostage by it, and this switch would help.

And what I've seen and heard is that in firms where a major salesperson has left, the firm's junior partners frequently move up into the departed partner's space, and the firm no longer feels like it's being held hostage by one of its partners.

It's like they're being held hostage by their billing and timekeeping system.

But worst of all, her pet parrot was missing; taken hostage by the foreclosure contractors hired by Bank of America.

One of our drivers just texted us to say that he is being held hostage by two armed men who took his keys and told him to stay with the truck until they returned to steal it and his truckload of berries!

For too long it has been held hostage by a minority of hard left, deep green activists whose anti-capitalist agenda has been given a veneer of respectability by the intervention of high end law firms, glossy environmental consultancies, Hollywood campaigners, «caring» grassroots pressure groups, expert scientific witnesses, «independent» moviemakers and sympathetic mainstream media coverage.

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.»

With this kind of fundamental non-robustness, the outcomes of CBAs or IAMs are held hostage by core structural uncertainties about how high temperature change and high productive capacity should be combined to yield utility.

Europe continues to be taken hostage by destructive fossil fuels and the companies who profit from them, according to Friends of the Earth groups protesting at an informal meeting of European energy ministers in Amsterdam today.

Actually, I am finding it distressing that the whole nation is being held hostage by the mindless, led by the gutless, egged on by the clueless, and orchestrated by those who lack scruples, ethics, and morals, but who nevertheless have the necessary greed and money to exercise their total disregard for rational civilized behavior.

Strong mitigation policies at the national level are currently held hostage by slow and cumbersome post-Kyoto international negotiation processes, the public policy mess left behind by Bush and Cheney, and the complex political labyrinth standing between the need to slash emissions and the legislation needed to make it happen, whether that be cap - and - trade or some other policy tool.

We are held hostage by the claim that to do otherwise would bring about the end of the world.

And they are worried that the technological solution is so cheap that it would be a political problem — could a country with a straw hold the world hostage by threatening to turn it off, or could it get turned up higher in order to cool and dry the climate of another, rival nation?

The lack there has spurred unrest — with water officials briefly being held hostage by desperate citizens.

Ike Teuling, climate and energy campaigner for Friends of the Earth Netherlands, said: «It is ridiculous that the Netherlands, as President of the European Union, allows a European summit to be taken hostage by Shell.

He points to several factors: the high price of fossil fuels and the moral desire to wean ourselves off of them; the fear of being held hostage by foreign oil companies; and the new concept that we ought to reduce our carbon footprint.

(The entire discussion is being held hostage by corrupting, conceptually - inadequate anomaly - think.)

In different ways, they help us recognize that subject matter, history (whether it has to do with art or not) and depiction are contested fields, and that the Abstract Expressionists and Minimalists settled nothing, which is why painting is not, as some critics have claimed, in a terminal condition or held hostage by zombie artists.

Grimonprez's second film essay, titled DOUBLE TAKE, questions how our view of reality is held hostage by mass media, advertising and Hollywood.

Painter Deborah Brown's latest work both embraces and critiques the concept of the Chimera as she reimagines narratives taken from mythology, religion, and literature by placing a powerful female figure at the center of these stories in which women are typically symbols of moral virtue or seductive evil, often held hostage by male desire to possess.

Mario was never about competition to a lot of gamers, it was about two plumber brothers or a pink - dressed Princess Peach working together to finish a level when she wasn't held hostage by a giant - sized lizard known as Bowser, or at least that is what it slowly became at it's core.

Zanzibar Land military obtains nuclear weapons and plans to hold the world hostage by kidnaping Dr. Kio Marv a Czech scientist.

Baby Mario falls down onto Egg Island and is found by the Yoshi clan who decide to help him reunite with Baby Luigi who, along with the stork, are now taken hostage by Kamek who is working with Baby Bowser in the occupation of Egg Island.

Sure, there were very important circumstances factoring into that course of action (Phoenix Wright's assistant, Maya Fey, is being held hostage by a professional assassin hired by your sociopath client, and will certainly be murdered if Wright doesn't find a way to manufacture a «Not Guilty» verdict) and the subversion of the normal Ace Attorney formula is part of what makes 2 - 4 arguably the best case in the entire series.

You can rescue residents of Hope that are being held hostage by the cult.

His family is taken hostage by the government in ransom for his services and having no other choice, he sets out to bring his three former gang members to justice.