Sentences with phrase «plans hostage»

It is unfair, and unreasonable to hold residents» holiday plans hostage over the Governor's and the legislature's inability to meet the budget deadline,» Democratic Assemblywoman Valerie Vainieri Huttle said.
I say surrender charges are a way for insurance companies to hold retirement plans hostage.
One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.
Paying off your debt should be a high priority because it holds the rest of your plan hostage.

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Since the beginning of last week, ISIS has taken thousands of people hostage from the outskirts of Mosul into the main parts of the city, and United Nations officials fear that the plan is «to use them as human shields against the Iraqi forces advance on Mosul.»
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.
Prescriber prevails is a necessary provision that ensures that anti-psychotic drugs are readily available and not held hostage to an insurance company health plan.
And while MSG officials declined to comment for this story, they previously said the arena was «being held hostage» by the City Planning Commission's recommended 15 - year limit.
Because Republicans have refused to pass the Women's Equality Act in its entirety, instead approving the other nine plans individually, Democrats have accused them of holding the act hostage and being opposed to everything from pay equity to cracking down on domestic violence and sex trafficking.
Planned Parenthood has been complicit in holding sensible reforms that would benefit women across the state hostage to an expansion of later term abortion.
A man convicted of taking hostages at a Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office in New Hampshire in 2007 is planning to plead guilty to robbing a bank and possessing cocaine.
Also, no word on whether a stand - alone bill passed by the Senate would be sufficient to secure the support of Sens. Bill Stachowski and Brian Foley, who have been holding out on the revenue bill (and holding legislative pay hostage in the process) in hopes of getting the Assembly to go along with the SUNY empowerment plan.
The plan also created tension among some women's rights groups that didn't want other pieces of legislation to be held hostage because of the abortion plank.
In the video, released last December, he also warned his captors - who call themselves the Islamic Shia Resistance in Iraq - were planning to kill one of the hostages unless troops were withdrawn from Iraq.
In the meantime, Mr. Cuomo is holding state education aid hostage until lawmakers approve his Draconian teacher evaluation plan, which ties 50 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation to that test I just spoke of.
Sources said that the plan was swiftly dropped by Corbyn on Wednesday evening, with one claiming that McDonnell was «keeping Corbyn hostage».
«Planned Parenthood on our watch will not be attacked or held political hostage and it will never be defunded when the Democrats get to political office... and when we have our first woman president,» said Schumer (D - N.
The state hadn't brought in an on - time spending plan since 1983 — as then - Speaker Sheldon Silver held everyone hostage for weeks upon weeks so he could deliver the maximum for his special - interest patrons.
Take an opponent hostage and use your headset to describe all the pain you plan to inflict on him.
Griffith and his wife Ida Lupino are held hostage by the crooks, led by Michael Brandon, who plan to use the apartment as headquarters while they pull off a big robbery.
Their plan to rescue the hostages, as Rabin points out, relies on the element of surprise, something which is necessarily lacking in a film about an event where the outcome is so well - known.
The true story of the CIA's plan to smuggle six U.S. embassy employees out of Iran during the 1979 hostage crisis as part of a fake movie crew thrilled many.
Many people may already be very familiar with the CIA (and Canada's) clandestine plan to get American embassy hostages safely out of Iran, but if you're not, or just want a good inside look, it's worth it.
The getaway plan involves hijacking a public bus in service and taking hostage the driver and commuters including a runaway boy and a man in a beaver costume.
But when things don't go as planned for the desperate hijackers, Muse takes Phillips hostage and escapes on the ship's lifeboat, leading to a tense standoff between the Somali pirates and the U.S. Navy.
She has a plan to hold the world's drug addicts hostage unless the governments pay her a massive ransom.
But a treasury agent and a storm chaser have a plan of their own, desperately racing against time — and the hurricane — to save the hostages and stop the thieves before their town is reduced to rubble.
It becomes clear that Carl has more in plan than just torturing and killing Abby because she sees that he is holding two other girls hostage trying to impregnate them both.
Dalton — in a curious kiss and tell, we learn the mastermind's name, but no one else in the movie does — has planned this day well, right down to dressing both hostage and hostile in identical clothing, thus making all exchanges and negotiations that much more complicated.
BATTLE OF ALCATRAZ by Neil Widener & Gavin James The story of a group of prisoners who plan an escape that turns into a huge hostage crisis pitting them against the US army.
Perhaps that's because the hero is an unscrupulous valet (Robert Sheehan) who plans to rob a Maserati owner (David Tennant), except that after he breaks into the home, he discovers that a woman (Kerry Condon) is being held hostage, leading to a cat - and - mouse showdown.
They hole up at the Canadian ambassador's house while the Iranian military are slowly discovering that some of their hostages are missing and the American government is trying all sorts of idiotic plans to get these hostages back.
The remaining 45 minutes has him trying to finagle his way out of a hostage situation that has no game plan whatsoever — much like the movie itself.
They may plan to hold your things hostage, or they may just disappear into the night with your down payment and never actually render any services.
Bending to NKs terrorist demands just opened the door for more cyber hostage taking... I actually planned to see the movie to support Sony after the hack.
Remnant Resistance mode requires online connectivity as it allows players to create and play their own missions and share them globally with players for everyone to be able to play each other's missions; comprising of five stages worth of objectives with four objectives per stage such as gathering intel involving enemy attack plans, collecting ammo, scavenging supplies, recovering relics, rescuing hostages and more besides.
Zanzibar Land military obtains nuclear weapons and plans to hold the world hostage by kidnaping Dr. Kio Marv a Czech scientist.
then «all the while we were negotiating KP, they planned to hostage the process.»
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I checked again, it is quite clear that my plan holds my money hostage until I leave the company.
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