Sentences with phrase «hostage video»
A "hostage video" refers to a recording where someone who is being held against their will is forced to speak or appear on camera. It typically contains demands or statements made under duress. Full definition
He also described international figures backing the Remain campaign as appearing in «Downing Street hostage videos».
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For all the subsequent failures in state building, air power performed just such a successful and important role against the Taliban in Afghanistan and pro-Gaddafi forces in Libya, and it is not for nothing that the cessation of bombing has been the principal demand issued in ISIS hostage videos.
Audio clips of American soldiers narrating traumatic stories of their time in Iraq are superimposed over a stop motion animation video of an action figure seeking to liberate Mesopotamian votive figures from a museum display case (the toy soldier itself was chosen due a bizarre story in which it had been used by insurgents in a hoax hostage video).
He said: «People don't understand when they see these Downing Street hostage videos - these people coming through Downing Street and giving these endorsements of the Remain campaign - what they don't understand is they are not speaking for the vast majority of British business.»
Just a few days earlier he had pledged in that hostage video to fulfill the progressive wish list in exchange for the endorsement of the Working Families Party.
This was particularly true in 2014 when he delivered that hostage video to secure the Working Families Party endorsement during his re-election bid.
The governor addressed the crowd via video message, which many described as a «hostage video.»
After the hostage video, Cuomo addressed the crowd again, this time by telephone.
(His campaign said that a second ad — a straight - into - camera single take that evokes comparisons to a hostage video shot from a high - rise — will not air on television.)
She looked and sounded terrible, as if she was featuring in a hostage video.
In what more than a few think looks like a hostage video, the couple talks about the importance of Australia's strict biosecurity laws — aimed at preserving the islands diverse plant and animal life.