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The Acting Director Defence Information, Colonel Rabe Abubakar made the disclosure in a statement today while responding to various reports on the plights of the Chibok Girls and other captives in terrorists» dens.

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He also appeared as a narrator in videos of other beheadings, including the mass killing of captive Syrian government soldiers.

The online magazine is part of a media operation that has produced scores of graphic, professionally produced videos of military operations and the killing of captives in Iraq, Syria and other countries like Libya and Afghanistan, where the IS group has local affiliates and supporters.

While Tesla went the way of adding sensors to all its production vehicles to gather data, most other automakers and tech companies are doing it through captive test fleets, which all vary in sizes.

Built - in AR screens could also help HTT monetize in other ways — with digital advertising to a captive audience for short bursts as passengers zip from city to city.

Church, like the Sabbath, is a means of helping others, delivering those in bondage, releasing captives, and letting light shine in the darkness.

On the other hand, they were captive of turn - of - the - century WASP models that called for assimilation, accommodation, homogeneity in American life.

Now, here is the Aramaic translation... «I say to you, in that night, two shall be in one bed; one shall be taken - captive - and the other shall be left.»

When the Philistines launched the attack in which Saul died, David was at war with the Amalekites, to avenge their sack of Ziklag, the city which the Philistines had given him, and to rescue his wives and others who had been taken captive (chs.

Since there also other Israelites outside Judah, not just from the lost tribes of Israel that were carried captive away by Assyria, but also nearly all of Judah as well in 701 BCE except for just the city off Jerusalem.

I tell you that if within one day everyone in the world woke up to all cancer patients completely and permanently cured, all amputees with their limbs restored, all sëx traffickers turned loose their victims, all child abuse stopped and captives turned loose, everybody laid down their weapons and shook hands, and all down syndrome and other people with genetic maladies were cured; all this taken together, would definitely get the entire worlds attention, would it not?

He was the rebels» captive for four weeks, marching next to scores of other young men who didn't want to become soldiers in the conflict.

It's very hard to raise these issues without offending other parents (or teachers) and yet your kid is essentially captive in such situations, may well be attracted to the treats (that's why they're «treats,» after all!)

In other words, not only are there are fewer people that self - consciously seek out news, making earned media harder to rely on than before, but there are fewer «go - to» places where you can guarantee a captive audience.

The city - governed WTC Captive Insurance Co., which managed $ 1 billion in funds to pay Ground Zero cleanup claims, is sitting on $ 326 million after it paid a $ 680 million settlement to some 10,000 cops, firefighters and other Ground Zero workers.

The decline of wild cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus), classified as «vulnerable» by the IUCN, led to the coordination of captive breeding programs in zoos and other breeding facilities.

Francys Subiaul of the George Washington University and his colleagues showed that captive chimpanzees are able to make judgments about the reputation of unfamiliar humans by observing their behaviour — whether they were generous or stingy in giving food to other humans.

Other zoos have supplemented the last of a species in the wild — the California condor, for example — with captives.

Their findings, published in The American Society of Microbiology's mSystems journal, say that the pattern of microbial exchange is «likely circular in nature,» meaning that captive dragons contribute microbes to their environment, and reacquire these same microbes from their environment, repeating this exchange in an ongoing cycle without other external sources of microbial diversity.

Then in 1986 biologists observed that captive dolphins housed in separate tanks kept making their own distinct whistles and then began repeating the whistles of companions held in other tanks.

Videos of two captive white - handed gibbons (Hylobates lar) leaping from one branch of a jungle gym to another reveal that the apes break the record for work per mass performed in a single movement by any other species to date.

In the captive populations, the birds also had strong associations with one or two other individuals, numerous more moderate relationships, and only a few that were weak.

Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.

Species in zoos are often protected from total extinction because they are commonly the subjects of captive breeding programs in which staffers entice animals to mate and reproduce offspring that can then be released into the wild or shared with other zoos.

In a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femaleIn a renowned study started back in the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femalein the 1950s, Russian researchers found that captive silver foxes bred for tameness also exhibited a suite of other traits, such as white patches of fur on their heads, curly tails, «feminized» faces with shorter snouts and floppy ears, and skulls in males that weren't much larger than in femalein males that weren't much larger than in femalein females.

But proving that is what elephants are doing will take more studies, he and others say, and preferably in wild, not captive, populations.

In 2012, the Georgia Aquarium's first captive - born calf died a few days after birth, but other aquariums have had more success.

In short, zoos that are seriously committed to captive breeding are a part of conservation, while others are simply theatre.

More animals died as a result of interactions with humans than from any other cause, and captive - born animals suffered more fatalities from human interactions than their counterparts caught in the wild.

He is also trying to set up three or four satellite colonies in other countries to lessen the risk of the entire captive colony being wiped out by disease.

Although this bird is extinct in the wild, almost all of the captive adults and nearly half of the captive juveniles the scientists tested used sticks and other objects to retrieve food from hidden locales, often altering the tool materials to do so.

Arizona authorities have long opposed the release of captive wolf families into the wild, even though that is the most reliable means of bringing in more genetically diverse animals to ensure the survival of the wild population; currently, nearly all the wolves are related to each other as if they were siblings.

We think that social stress explains these effects because a great deal of research has linked lower rank to increased social stress in captive female macaques (and for primates in some other settings as well), and in fact we were able to measure stress hormone dysregulation in our study subjects indicative of chronic stress.

The supporting characters, from Paul's brother Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio, «The Magnificent Seven») to the selection of bland bad guys in the streets — played by Jack Kesy («Baywatch»), Ian Matthews («The Captive»), Beau Knapp («Run All Night»), among others — are unmemorable as a whole.

There are a few scenes in which other characters criticize Ethan's extreme views of Natives, fearing that he will mercilessly shoot a captive white woman who has «gone Native.»

Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video - on - demand, and other streaming services... Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water (2017, R), a monster movie turned romantic fantasy about a mute janitor (Sally Hawkins) and an amphibious creature held captive in a government lab, -LSB-...]

Both films share a forbiddingly wintry setting, all the better to draw conspicuous attention to the chilly distances that lie between characters; both feature children in peril (a busload of drowned schoolchildren in the one, a Lolita-esque belle captive in the other); and both employ an ominous, if explicitly subtextual, poem to lend a literary sheen to the proceedings.

In addition to this violence, other scenes include a woman being held captive by a judge who peers at her though a peephole (she is always clothed).

Bruce Greenwood stars and is nearly unrecognizable as the caravan's undependable guide, Stephen Meek; and Michelle Williams is excellent once again in the role of Emily Tetherow, a lady who questions Meek's decision making and sees the advantages in being kind to their Native captive in offering food and assistance, when other members of their band would much prefer to end his life.

Before things erupt into eye - coveringly gory territory — which they most certainly do — Saulnier sits on the tension in that room like an elephant on a hot water bottle, allowing the gravity of the situation to seep into the very pores of the band - mates, other captive Amber (a fringe - sporting Imogen Poots) and the audience alike.When Patrick Stewart «s Darcy arrives on the scene, he molds his commanding, oft - benevolent gravitas into an instrument of cool, collected terror.

Other notable highlights include Rose Byrne having trouble standing up straight while being held captive in William Stryker's Alkaki Lake base, presumably because the shoes she's wearing don't work well on the metal grated floor.

As Casey and her fellow captives try to escape, they wonder whether other personalities lurking in Kevin's mind can help.

The film presents two novelists, one (Medeiros) returning from Japan with an adventure story she has not completed, the other (Laszlo Kovacs) in Japan, shown typing his next novel, and who apparently protected her during her stay and helped her fly back to France (she had become entangled in the theft of confidential documents and was kept captive, then chased by hoodlums after her escape).

Any other year, in any other context, «The Captive» would simply be another overcooked rote thriller that, like so many other films in this genre, totally loses the run of itself in the final act (seriously, Kevin Durand goes so Bond villain that he even has a female henchperson sidekick).

Before things erupt into eye - coveringly gory territory — which they most certainly do — Saulnier sits on the tension in that room like an elephant on a hot water bottle, allowing the gravity of the situation to seep into the very pores of the band - mates, other captive Amber (a fringe - sporting Imogen Poots) and the audience alike.

Service department is very professional and i love that that get you in and out pretty quickly where other places I have been hold you captive - last oil change at another dealership was 3 hours.

We helped manage the first event, which took place near his home and was in a perfect location — a gated community with a captive audience that added to the friends, family, and other contacts who were able to attend.

They strictly followed the list until one night in college when they got in a car with a stranger — a devastating choice that led to five years of unspeakable torture, as Sarah and Jennifer were held captive with two other girls in an unforgiving cellar.

Homes is no stranger to dark dramas, and her offbeat humor could be a welcome addition to Zan's grim story of two best friends held captive and tortured for years in a dreary basement room with a few other women.

It is a great compromise between easy access to the funding and other resources of the major cities in the Northeast and the benefits of starting a business in a rural area (like a captive audience of customers and lower cost of living).