Sentences with phrase «money hostage»

I checked again, it is quite clear that my plan holds my money hostage until I leave the company.

Your refund will come — the IRS isn't going to hold your money hostage.

First off — HOLY HECK that's an expensive chequing account AND they hold your money hostage!

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That major media repeated the report's finding without noting its lack of credibility is symptomatic of a Nation held hostage by power and money.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

Thus laws that supposedly give more money and greater choice in child care to mothers and their children will in fact hold them hostage to the enforced restriction of both.

One member suggested that relatives of Sister Gloria should send money to pay for a ransom and hinted that other hostages were also being held.

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.

That's my only problem, Conor's moves and him chasing all these boxing fights etc. whilst keeping the UFC belt at the same time is just costing the other fighters, he is kind of holding the division hostage to keep the belt to use it in promotions in his own fights, put simply making money at the cost of others.

We must commit to expanding voting rights and getting big money out of politics so that billionaires are no longer able to hold our democracy hostage,» Jamaica Miles, Capital District Organizer, Citizen Action of New York.

Robbed of his money and his surrogate set of eyes, Topo takes Chloe and Sophia hostage.

Annie eventually figures out that Delgado is not really into ecology, but just in it for the money, so she upsets him so much that he puts the three of them in with the hostages.

Meanwhile, as the money is being transported, Abdi strikes up a tenuous friendship with a frightened hostage.

A woman panics in a hostage situation and asks where she is and pleads for help; she offers a man money to help her until a hijacker comes and takes her outside (we hear her yelling as she goes and we see her unharmed later).

It's really very easy to figure out that Franco's character was *** SPOILERS ***, in fact, was one of the original victims of the hostage in 1982, the spirits of which are haunting the vault where the real money is in.

After losing money on a stock tip, a disgruntled investor holds a Wall Street guru and a producer hostage on live television.

It's hard to imagine a subplot of less interest than the money problems of foxy hostage - taker Sandrine (Sandrine Holt)-- and this week's scheme to hijack a high - rolling poker game to help her out, leaving the captive Sanders family in the lurch for a bit, is so preposterously tangential it's all you can do to control the eye roll.

Also Read: George Clooney Taken Hostage on Live TV in Trailer for Jodie Foster's «Money Monster» (Video)

now to secure the US patent so i can hold it hostage when they want it and make some extra money!!

In the end these criminals name their price for their part in preserving the American dream, which in this case seems to be the right to recklessly drive fast cars, steal exorbitant amounts of money and hold the law - abiding public hostage with their demands.

George Clooney stars as a financial personality who gets taken hostage after a tech stock plummets in the first trailer for Money Monster.

Money Monster (R for brief violence, some sexuality and pervasive profanity) High - octane crime thriller about a bombastic host (George Clooney) of an investment advice TV show who, along with his crew and producer (Julia Roberts), is taken hostage by an irate viewer (Jack O'Connell) after a stock he'd promoted mysteriously tanks.

One of them is Jodie Foster's «Money Monster» (May 13), a thriller about a brash financial news pundit taken hostage on the air, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts.

Directed by Jodie Foster, Money Monster is about a TV show presenter (Clooney) who's live tv show is taken hostage by Kyle Budwell (Jack...

Johnny and his thugs grab the boy, and hold him a willing hostage until Jake pays back the money.

Sony also showed trailers for two TriStar releases — Jonathan Demme's «Ricki and the Flash» starring Meryl Streep as well as Jodie Foster's «Money Monster,» in which George Clooney is taken hostage live on the air by a gunman played by «Unbroken's» Jack O'Connell.

Money Monster (May 13th): Directed by two - time Oscar winner Jodie Foster, this thriller focuses on a financial guru on television who is held hostage by a young man who has lost all of his investments.

The CT Mirror's article is entitled Childcare providers worry their money held hostage by politics, while CTNewsjunkie» s story is called Did Early Childhood Bill Fall Victim To Sunday Bow Hunting?

The political world essentially holds school districts hostage by tying both federal and state money to standardized tests performance.

(Learn more about where to purchase your ISBNs at http://1106design.com/2016/04/isbns-lccns-and-copyright-oh-my/) The company never releases the design files to the author (only the PDF, maybe), and will happily hold the indie author hostage for more money should changes ever be required to those files.

The vanity press is in effect saying «We're pretty sure your book will never make any money (which is why we made you pay us to publish it in the first place), but on the slim chance that it miraculously goes big, then we're holding it and all the rights to it hostage for however long it continues to rake in the dough.»]

«Loss prevention unit,» why does a bank need this when I'm the one who's putting in the money while they're holding it hostage?

They are in business to make money just like any other business, and subsequently Your credit rating is being held hostage

Who wants to be held hostage, he asked darkly, by David Blitzer, head of Standard & Poro's stock index company - selection committee, or by Fed chair Janet Yellen and her doomed (as Grantians believe) cheap - money policies?

Meaning, no carry out the money bags, no tying down hostages and forget their help on fixing a drill.

There are hostages and ticking clocks for various end - of - world situations, but more importantly, this marks the first time a drug dealer has had enough money to make future weapons available to his insane army.

Silver's lawyers claim that his original deposit money was used as a «hostage» to demand further payments.

The concern is that due to a lack of meaningful commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, progress on REDD + may be held hostage to other key financial decisions, like where money for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will come from.

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.

Repeated calls to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico gave the family no help in getting their father out of Mexico, and the family accuses the hospital of holding their father hostage for the money the family was repeatedly shelling out.

In 4chan, forum users ranted about a «bancor jew» fraud bent on holding investors» money «hostage.»

Win 7 Anti-Spyware 2011 is just one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live, Advanced Virus Remover, Internet Security 2010, Security Tool, and others that hold your computer hostage until you pay their ransom money.

«The experience usually ends up with the consumer's goods being held hostage for more money, delivery delays and losses or damage to treasured possessions,» says the association.

Scam artists posing as reputable moving companies are taking advantage of consumers, in some cases holding their possessions hostage for more money before they will deliver them.

Very frustrating to have my money held hostage.