Sentences with phrase «hostage if»

Second, there was a little feeling of holding people's childhood hostage if we priced certain games higher than others.

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, all stems from Google's purchase of the Android operating system, meaning that it holds consumers hostage if they wish to have any alternative to iOS.

We paid in full, arranged a tow truck, and they still tried to hold his car hostage if he didn't sign!

We have a statewide ethics problem and Cuomo is going to hold the budget hostage if he doesn't get some reforms.

White House officials stood behind President Trump's threat to hold the federal government hostage if he doesn't get funds for his long - promised wall along the Mexican border.

In January, ISIS had said they would release Kasabeh and a Japanese hostage if Jordan agreed to release a failed suicide bomber named Sajida al Rishawi.

ISIS threatened to execute the 180 hostages if we didn't pay the ransom.»

Shock Wave: A terrorist who specializes in explosives takes hold of the busy Cross-Harbor Tunnel and threatens to kill hostages if his demands are not met.

On March 30 of that year, as the siege of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was closing in on its sixth month, a half - dozen heavily armed Iranian Arab gunmen stormed the Iranian Embassy in South Kensington and threatened to begin systematically killing all 26 hostages if their demands weren't met.

Not exact matches

Carter said if there was one thing he could change about his time in office it would be the failed mission to rescue the hostages from Iran, which he said could have been successful if he had one more helicopter.

In part two, Carter talks about the Iran hostage crisis he faced during his time as president and how he could have been re-elected easily if he had been able to rescue the hostages.

With actual net neutrality rules in the United States in limbo if not dead, large network owners such as Comcast are effectively free to engage in whatever activities they want, which is exactly how this situation has been perceived; Netflix had no choice but to give in to its customers being held hostage.

«If you can imagine her being put into a room, being treated as if she was a hostage, the room being stormed by the SAS, she will be put through that training,» he told The IndependenIf you can imagine her being put into a room, being treated as if she was a hostage, the room being stormed by the SAS, she will be put through that training,» he told The Independenif she was a hostage, the room being stormed by the SAS, she will be put through that training,» he told The Independent.

If so, you have a relationship hostage situation.

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.

This is the new world of cyber kidnapping where your information is kept hostage and destroyed if you do not comply to the ransom demands.

Relationship hostages are organizations that rely so heavily on a single employee, or a small group of employees, that customers would take their business elsewhere if these connections were severed.

SANA said they faltered when the rebel group refused to release detainees it is holding in Douma, warning the military assault would only stop if hostages are released.

So if hostage negotiators have no fear of No, and actually embrace it as a means to get to Yes, one can only wonder how effective it might be in the worlds of sales and business.

If an outsourcing firm became too powerful, it could hold the client hostage.

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.

If someone with a split personality threatens to commit suicide, is it a hostage situation?

The contestants were told that hostages will drown if they fail, and he takes that threat at face value; we are left to wonder how the good Dumbledore came to consent to such an emotionally abusive contest.

All MOTHERS WILL BE HOSTAGES OF MEN if Rick Perry becomes President.

I do not know any moral theologian who denies the Pope's teaching, although it might be possible to imagine some moral dilemmas; for example, if one were ordered to kill an innocent hostage as the price of saving an entire city from destruction.

If there's a hostage situation, and the hostage takers are happy to kill one person and let all the others go, why would that be less «valid» than if they were happy to kill one person in exchange for some subset of those peoplIf there's a hostage situation, and the hostage takers are happy to kill one person and let all the others go, why would that be less «valid» than if they were happy to kill one person in exchange for some subset of those peoplif they were happy to kill one person in exchange for some subset of those people?

During the «Iranian hostage crisis» (note that even the headline is like a television series, drawing on emotionally charged words) there were nightly special broadcasts, each of them bearing the portentous title «Day One, Day Two... Day Fifty - Seven,» as if we were marking the passage of one of the most significant events in history.

i also wonder if sanchez / ozil are holding wenger hostage and saying they wont renew their contracts.

He has served us very well in the past seasons and if its not only about the money and he really has made up his mind he wants to go somewhere else we should respect that, there is no sense in keeping a player hostage, forcefully keeping him will only disturb the atmosphere of dressing room.

However if he yet again attempts to hold Arsenal hostage and demands ridiculous wages that do not accurately reflect his quality its time for the lad to move on.

Everybody raise your hand if you want a dope smoking, twice suspended, whining, narcissistic, hold out, victim, wannabe rapper with social media Tourette's Syndrome who is trying to hold the Pittsburgh Steelers hostage to his demands.

I'm tired of this hostage situation we've been put under by Sanchez, this inner kid thing happened to RVP as well, if he wants to go let him, to any side he wants, if it's a prem side nothing less than 80 mil will get us talking, reinvest that cash on Mbappe and Lemar, and see if we don't mount a title challenge next season.

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!

But, I know, I know... we can't be «held hostage» by what the students like... they need what is good for them and they should learn to eat it and they will if they are hungry enough.

Sardino had the idea that he would come up and they would let the chancellor leave and take him as their hostage, if you wanted to call it.»

History will judge the prime minister kindly if she falls on her sword rather than become a hostage to her party's militant tendency.

In other words, the Judicial Branch can not hold the other two branches hostage and force them to keep a state they wish to expel if they do so by a proper treaty.

«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.

If everything goes good after a few months, then they get their millions and the hostages get to live.

The Conservatives had been calling for Mr Browne's resignation if he failed to provide a satisfactory account of who approved the request from two of the sailors taken hostage to sell their stories, and why the government appeared to reverse the decision.

And as if that is not enough, we were served the salacious tales of how some unnamed Governors once «kidnapped» Vice President, held him hostage and demanded that he resigned to pave the way for Senate President, Bukola Saraki to take over as President.

«If there's some ramifications to the way that something was sourced, I mean, I think there's a remedy that could be had that doesn't hold the progress of the community and the economic development hostage,» he said.

If the Buhari Government does not curb the menace of these Fulani herdsmen now, I am afraid a time will come when all the citizens will be forced to take up arms and defend themselves against these criminally - minded people trying to hold this nation hostage.

It's essentially as if Wolfe has handed them the rope, the duct tape and the keys to the getaway van needed to hold the county hostage at their whim and Stavisky has disabled the security cameras.

And if Canada could do that, what hope is there for the coastal fisheries of Europe, hostage to politics as well as science?

«If persistent pain is holding you hostage, let Dr. Joe Tatta show you how to break free!

a lot of people say it sucks but its pretty kickass you can do counter kill move were 50 will either break the guys neck slice him up with your knife or turn the guys gun on him (these are the coolest kind) all counter kills are in slowmotion and there are 25 different kilnds you can also take a guy hostage where you can either thrown him interriagate him (which isnt useful) or just kill him the game offers many cool guns from small pistols to large machine guns please pick it up or if your not sure about it rent it its a fun shooter although it could use some improvements its still fun.

And if that weren't bad enough, they're fighting the Captain with his own novelty items from his own backpack - which they're holding hostage.

If you want to watch a great movie about hostages and near escapes... skip this and watch «Argo» again.

Despite being presented in slow motion, it seems as if it's over almost before it's begun and, once again, the hostages themselves feel disconnected from the main event.