Sentences with phrase «house as a hostage»

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County Executive Edward Mangano hailed the «state - of - the art» project, which will also serve as a regional training hub for the county's 17 village and two city departments, house Nassau's police intelligence unit and eventually include a streetscape village to allow for simulation of drug raids and hostage barricade situations.

His idea of offering Nick Boles as a hostage to the Lib Dems during particularly fraught Coalition negotiations brought the house down.

Ed Balls was right to commit to a # 10bn capital spending programme particularly directed at social housing construction, which would be good for job creation as well as meeting a large and growing social need, but he queered his pitch by saying he would accept the spending cuts Osborne is going to spell out on 26 June (why give a hostage to fortune when he doesn't even know what those cuts will be?)

A man travels with his boss to an evicted man's house where they find him holding his wife and two grade - school sons hostage; sheriff's deputies point handguns toward the house as the homeowner breaks out the picture window from inside with a rifle, glass shattering loudly as sirens sound outside, the homeowner argues with the officers, accidentally shoots into a wall, missing one of his young sons, drops his rifle after a man tells him that he cheated to get the man evicted, exits the house and is arrested and handcuffed after being forced to the ground.

George (Ryan Reynolds) and his hot wife Kathy (Melissa George, still coasting, as far as I'm concerned, on her cameo in Dark City) buy a house beyond their means with Kathy's three kids from a previous marriage: Chelsea, Billy (Jesse James, excellent), and little Michael (Jimmy Bennett, already emotionally brutalized once this year in another home - invasion picture, Hostage).

Trends of the Year: Sex addiction (Don Jon, Thanks for Sharing), shipwrecks (Gravity, All Is Lost), the skin trade (Lovelace, The Look of Love), taking the White House hostage (Olympus Has Fallen, White House Down), the apocalypse as comedy (This Is the End, The World's End), slow cartoon protagonists who nonetheless win the big race (Turbo, Planes), likable character actors who are revealed to be villains in the final reel (Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, The Lone Ranger)

The robbers have the advantage of hostages and weapons, as per usual, but they also possess the advantage of shelter — a house that, by way of its elaborate security system, can alert them if Shaun gets within 15 feet of the exterior walls or, somehow, finds her way inside.

Next Mother's Day, Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.

Gabrielle Union stars as a woman who will stop at nothing to rescue her two children being held hostage in a house designed with impenetrable security.

One committee chairman in the New Hampshire House admitted in a rare moment of candor that he intends to use schools as a political hostage in his grand negotiating scheme.

A teenaged girl with a taste for violence holds a burglar hostage in her house on New Year's Eve; a middle aged couple examines the intricacies of their marriage as they prepare to throw a party; and a real estate mogul in the throes of grief buys up all the property on an island only to be accused of madness by his daughters.

«As a classic rock band take the stage in Parliament House's main hall, 96 armed eco-terrorists storm the building and take the entire government hostage, threatening to execute everyone unless Australia ends global warming.

A third possibility is that the Obama administration, desperate to break the Republican hold on climate policy (Jamie Henn of 350.org quipped that this isn't a negotiation, its a hostage crisis) was willing to pay any price to unlock the Congressional deadlock and, as White House science and technology adviser John Holdren put it, «get started.»